{"id":88,"date":"2017-05-31T09:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:12:22","slug":"foreign-embassies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/country-information\/foreign-embassies\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Republic of Cyprus<\/h2>\n<h3>At a glance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Population:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Approx. 1.2 million (est. July 2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital:\u00a0<\/strong>Nicosia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Area:\u00a0<\/strong>9,251 sq km (3,572 sq miles)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major languages:\u00a0<\/strong>Greek, Turkish<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major religions:\u00a0<\/strong>Christianity, Islam<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life expectancy:\u00a0<\/strong>78 years (men), 82 years (women)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monetary unit:\u00a0<\/strong>Euro since 1 January 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong>Main exports:\u00a0<\/strong>Clothing, potatoes, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals<\/li>\n<li><strong>GNI per capita:\u00a0<\/strong>US$27,788 (south); US$16,158 (north) (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internet domain:\u00a0<\/strong>.cy<\/li>\n<li><strong>International dialling code:\u00a0<\/strong>+357<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population Growth Rate:\u00a0<\/strong>89%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unemployment rate: <\/strong>4.2% (Eurostat, January 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Net Migration rate: <\/strong>8.7 migrant(s)\/1,000 population<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cyprus has been divided since 1974 with the Greek Cypriot population living in the south of the island, the Turkish Cypriot population in the northern part of the island, and UN Peacekeepers maintaining the Buffer Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Cyprus At a glance Population:\u00a0\u00a0Approx. 1.2 million (est. July 2017) Capital:\u00a0Nicosia Area:\u00a09,251 sq km (3,572 sq miles) Major languages:\u00a0Greek, Turkish Major religions:\u00a0Christianity, Islam Life expectancy:\u00a078 years (men), 82 years (women) Monetary unit:\u00a0Euro since 1 January 2008 Main exports:\u00a0Clothing, potatoes, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals GNI per capita:\u00a0US$27,788 (south); US$16,158 (north) (2015) Internet domain:\u00a0.cy International dialling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/2481"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}