İskele District
The district İskele , Turkish İskele İlçesi , is one of the six districts of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the northeast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus . Its main town is İskele . In 2011 the district had 22,492 inhabitants.
The area of today's district belonged to the Republic of Cyprus and its district Famagusta before 1974 , but this has no de facto control over this district. It includes the elongated Karpas peninsula , the tip of which is Cape St. Andreas (Zafer Burnu) , which is preceded by some small uninhabited islands. The peninsula is around 80 km long and around 10 km wide.
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Coordinates: 35 ° 25 ' N , 34 ° 5' E