Half the world thinks you're talking about the American state, which must be properly annoying for them.
Fun fact: Clay jars found there contain 8,000-year-old wine residue, the earliest evidence of winemaking on Earth.
Half Greek, a bit Turkish, and there's still a chunk technically run by the British army somehow.
Fun fact: Archaeologists in Cyprus unearthed the world's oldest known perfumes, dating back roughly 4,000 years.