Cyprus is 12 times larger than New York City.
Area: 9,251 km2 World Factbook
Population: 1,172,458 (July 2014) World Factbook
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. Wikipedia
Area: 784 km2 calculated
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Wikipedia