English French German Spain Italian Dutch Russian Portuguese Japanese Korean Arabic Chinese Simplified
Welcome to Tunisia



      Basic information :
 
- Capital : Tunis
- Major Cities : Tabarka, Hammamet, Nabeul, Sousse, Monastir, Mahdia and Djerba and Carthage and Kairouan, Sfax, Bizerte, Gabes, Tozeur.
- Area :
162.155 sq km.
- Population : 10.6 million (2002 m).
- Along the coast : 1298 km except for the islands.
- Official language : Arabic.
- National Day : 20 March / March (independence 1956).
- Time : + one hour to Greenwich Mean Time.
- Currency : Tunisian dinar (1000 penny) and the price is about 70% of the dollar. And more than a little against the euro.

- Phone : 216 then the number in Tunisia from 71 to 78 according to the area and then the desired number.

      - Ports and airports :
  Tunis-Carthage airport away from the center of the city no more than five kilometers; and there are airport Enfidha There are other airports such as an airport of Djerba Zarzis at a distance of 6 km west of Djerba, and airport Sfax 8 km west of Monastir, and the airport of Tozeur blister airport south of the oasis, and there in Tunisia several ports such as port of Tunis, Sfax, Sousse and Bizerte. 
 

      - Administrative divisions :

  Divided into Tunisia to the 24 states (province), as follows: Beja Ben Arous, Ariana, Tunisia, Manouba and Bizerte, Zaghouan, Jendouba, Kairouan and El Kef, Siliana, Gafsa, Tozeur and Mednine, Gabes, and Sidi Bouzid, Sousse and Sfax, Nabeul, and Tataouine, Monastir, Mahdia and Kasserine.

       - Natural Resources :
Petroleum, phosphates, iron ore, lead, zinc, and salt.
       - Climate :  
  Climate of Tunisia mild Mediterranean in the north and along the coast and semi-dry inside the country and in the south, and is characterized by Tunisia sunshine most days of the year, while the temperature amounts to an annual average in the winter about 12 degrees Celsius with rainfall, while in summer amounts to average temperatures about 29 degrees Celsius.
  
       - About Geography :
  Tunisia is located in the middle of North Africa, where surrounded by the north and east sides of the Mediterranean Sea and from Algeria to the west and south-eastern Libya, and a coastline of islands, without counting the 1298 km, the total area amounts to 162 thousand and 155 square kilometers.