Cyprus: Indeed, _most_ people agree on _geographically_ part of Asia. Read e.g. the Wikipedia: " Cyprus is geographically in Southwest Asia, but Cypriots assert that they are a part of Europe. " <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus> But this is not an authoritative source.
From Paul Eggert: This shouldn't matter one way or the other to tz users, since Asia/Nicosia and Europe/Nicosia are aliases.
Cyprus nor Nicosia are mentioned clearly in the "europe" file. Anyhow, let's not get political, but practical, so: why not LINK or at least mention Cyprus clearly in the "europe" tz-file? In the "northamerica" file there is for instance a remark: " # See the `europe' file for Greenland. " A bit of crossreferencing can't do much harm I think. BTW, those interested in this discussion may also wish to read for instance Paul Eggert's email dated 2000-09-28, subject "Re: (Cyprus), Nicosia is in Europe not Asia." See the tz mail archive. Oscar van Vlijmen 2004-05-17