Explore Tunisia in Africa - Tunisia Tourism Info

Description and Basic Information

Tunisia with its capital Tunis is located in Africa (Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea). It covers some 163,611 square kilometres (slightly larger than Georgia) with 10,378,000 citizens. Arabic and French are the the languages commonly used by the people in Tunisia. It is charing borders with Algeria and Libya.

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About Tunisia

The landscape featuresmountains in north with hot, dry central plain and semiarid south merges into the Sahara. The average density of population is about 63 per km². The climate in can be described as temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers with desert in south. Potential threats by nature are NA.

To reach someone in Tunisia dial +216 prior to a number. There are 1,279,000 installed telephones. And there are 9,754,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".tn". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz.

The country consists of 24 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Tunisia

Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Tunisia Tourism

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Tunisia has 3 more world heritage locations. To see all of them, visit the Tunisia Unesco Heritage location overview.

Amphitheatre of El Jem

The impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheatre which could hold up to 35,000 spectators, are found in the small village of El Jem. This 3rd-century monument...

Archaeological Site of Carthage

Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century onwards, it developed into a great trading empire covering much of the Mediterranean and was home to a...

Dougga / Thugga

Before the Roman annexation of Numidia, the town of Thugga, built on an elevated site overlooking a fertile plain, was the capital of an important Libyco-Punic state. It flourished under Roman and...

Ichkeul National Park

The Ichkeul lake and wetland are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, such as ducks, geese, storks and pink flamingoes, who come to feed and nest there. Ichkeul is...

Kairouan

Founded in 670, Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century. Despite the transfer of the political capital to Tunis in the 12th century, Kairouan remained the Maghreb's...

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Tunisia

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Tunisia is growing at an rate of 0.97% (or by 102,608 citizens). Each year 4,024 people leave this country (or 0.40 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 1.01%. Or an total increase of 106,631 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.