tunisia

Capital: Tunis Population: 10,732,900 Official Languages: Arabic Time Zone: +1 Dialing Code: +216

Government: Unitary semi-presidential Area: 163,610 km2 largest city: Tunis Currency : Tunisian dinar ISO 3166 code: TN

Basic Info

Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia (Arabic: الجمهورية التونسية‎ al-Jumhūriyyah at-Tūnisiyyah; Berber: Tagduda n Tunes; French: République tunisienne), is the smallest country in North Africa. It is a Maghreb country bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east.

Geography

Tunisia is situated on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nile Delta. It is bordered by Algeria on the west and Libya on the south east. It lies between latitudes 30° and 38°N, and longitudes 7° and 12°E. An abrupt southward turn of the Mediterranean coast in northern Tunisia gives the country two distinctive Mediterranean coasts, west-east in the north, and north-south in the east.

Climate

Tunisia's climate is temperate in the north, with mild rainy winters and hot, dry summers. The south of the country is desert. The terrain in the north is mountainous, which, moving south, gives way to a hot, dry central plain. The south is semiarid, and merges into the Sahara. A series of salt lakes, known as chotts or shatts, lie in an east-west line at the northern edge of the Sahara, extending from the Gulf of Gabes into Algeria. The lowest point is Shatt al Gharsah, at 17 metres (56 ft) below sea level and the highest is Jebel ech Chambi, at 1,544 metres (5,066 ft)

Religion

The majority of Tunisia's population (around 98%) are muslims while about 1% follow Christianity and the remaining 1% adhere to Judaism or other religions. The bulk of Tunisians belong to the Maliki School of Sunni islam and their Mosques are easily recognizable by square minarets. However, the Turks brought with them the teaching of the Hanafi School during the Ottoman rule which still survives among the Turkish descended families today, their Mosques traditionally have octagonal minarets

Administrative divisions

Tunisia is subdivided into 24 governorates, which are further divided into 264 "delegations" or "districts" (mutamadiyat), and further subdivided into municipalities (shaykhats) and sectors (imadats)

1 Ariana 2 Béja 3 Ben Arous 4 Bizerte 5 Gabès 6 Gafsa 7 Jendouba 8 Kairouan 9 Kasserine 10 Kebili 11 Kef 12 Mahdia

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13 Manouba 14 Medenine 15 Monastir 16 Nabeul 17 Sfax 18 Sidi Bou Zid 19 Siliana 20 Sousse 21 Tataouine 22 Tozeur 23 Tunis 24 Zaghouan

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