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Tunisia – northernmost country in Africa situated on the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisia is the smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas Mountains . The south of the country is composed of the Sahara desert , with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil and 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) of coastline.
Tunisia, [a] officially the Republic of Tunisia, [b] [18] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares maritime borders with Italy through the islands of Sicily and Sardinia to the north and ...
Tunisia has signed, but not ratified the Marine Life Conservation agreement. Tunisia, like other North African countries, has lost much of its prehistoric biodiversity due to the ongoing expanding human population; for example, until historic times there was a population of the endangered primate Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus). [32]
2nd Presidential Flag of Tunisia under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali A purple ground, superimposed with the white Tughra characters: Jim and Ta. The character Jim in Arabic is the first character of the word Jumhuriyya and the character Ta in Arabic is the first character of the name Tounes .
Map of Tunisia Tunis, Capital of Tunisia Sfax City Centre Skyline of Sousse Central Kairouan. This is the list of 350 cities and towns in Tunisia. In the list by governorate, capitals are shown in bold.
By 2006 the situation had improved so the site was removed from the endangered list. [4] The first three sites were listed in 1979 and the most recent, Djerba, in 2023. [3] In addition, Tunisia has 16 sites on the tentative list. [3] The country has served on the World Heritage Committee four times. [3]
Tunisia is divided into 24 governorates (wilayat, sing. wilayah). This term in Arabic can also be translated as province. The governorates are divided into 264 delegations (mutamadiyat), and further subdivided into municipalities (baladiyat), [1] and sectors (imadats). [2] Tunisia is divided into 6 regions. [3]
From the late 19th century to after World War II, Tunisia was home to large populations of French and Italians (255,000 Europeans in 1956), [20] although nearly all of them, along with the Jewish population, left after Tunisia became independent. The history of the Jews in Tunisia goes back some 2,000 years. In 1948 the Jewish population was an ...