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Tunisia is the eighteenth most water stressed country in the world. Tunisia's climate is Mediterranean in the north, with mild rainy winters and hot, dry summers. [139] 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.
Geography of Tunisia. Tunisia is: a country; Location Tunisia is situated within the following regions: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Africa. Sahara Desert; North Africa. Maghreb; Time zone: UTC+01; Extreme points of Tunisia High: Jebel ech Chambi 1,544 m (5,066 ft) Low: Shatt al Gharsah −17 m (−56 ft) Land boundaries: 1,424 km
Tunisia map of Köppen climate classification. Tunisia is a country in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, having a western border with Algeria (965 km) and south-eastern border with Libya (459 km) where the width of land tapers to the south-west into the Sahara.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa (WANA) [1] or South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), [2] [3] is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East (also called West Asia) and North Africa together.
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.
The Arab world consists of 22 countries [citation needed] located in Western Asia, Northern Africa, the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It covers a combined area of 13 million km 2. It extends from Morocco in the west, southward to the Comoros, eastward to Somalia, and northward to Iraq.
Below is a list of countries in Asia by area. [1] Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.
Throughout Tunisia's history many peoples have arrived among the Berbers to settle: most recently the French along with many Italians, before them came the Ottoman Turks with their multi-ethnic rule, yet earlier the Arabs who brought their language and the religion of Islam, and its calendar; [54] before them arrived the Byzantines, and the ...