Which sea contains the island nation of Cyprus?

Which sea contains the island nation of Cyprus? The answer is the Mediterranean Sea.

Cyprus lies in the eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of the Levantine coast. It is the Mediterranean’s third-largest island, after Sicily and Sardinia, and is often grouped geographically with West Asia despite its political ties to Europe.

The Mediterranean is an almost enclosed intercontinental sea bordered by Europe, Africa, and Asia. It connects westward to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar and eastward to the Red Sea through the man-made Suez Canal. Cyprus sits in its eastern basin, near the meeting zone of the Aegean, Levantine, and Anatolian regions.

A common mix-up is confusing the Mediterranean with the Aegean Sea. The Aegean is a smaller marginal sea between Greece and Turkey; Cyprus is farther east, in the broader Mediterranean basin. Cyprus’s position helped make it a crossroads for Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and other maritime cultures.