Tunis

country, sovereign state, republic, Mediterranean country
Part of	North Africa, European Union tax haven blacklist
Piiluu	20 Maakye 1956
Ethnic group	Arabs
Archives at	National Archives of Tunisia
Named after	Tunis
Official language	Arabic
Anthem	Humat Al Hima
Culture	culture of Tunisia
Motto text	حرية، نظام، عدالة, Rhyddid, urddas, cyfiawnder, a threfn
Continent	Africa
Paaloŋ	Tunisia
Kapital/teŋkpoŋ	Tunis
Located in time zone	UTC+01:00, Central European Time, UTC+02:00, Africa/Tunis
Located in or next to body of water	Mediterranean Sea
Coordinate location	34°0′0″N 10°0′0″E
Coordinates of easternmost point	33°10′1″N 11°33′42″E
Coordinates of northernmost point	37°33′0″N 8°57′0″E
Coordinates of southernmost point	30°13′41″N 9°33′23″E
Coordinates of westernmost point	33°47′54″N 7°31′32″E
Highest point	Jebel ech Chambi
Lowest point	Shatt al Gharsah
Basic form of government	parliamentary republic, semi-presidential system
Office held by head of state	President of Tunisia
Head of state	Kais Saied
Office held by head of government	Prime Minister of Tunisia
Head of government	Sarra Zaafrani
Executive body	Government of Tunisia
Legislative body	Assembly of the Representatives of the People
Central bank	Central Bank of Tunisia
Currency	Tunisian dinar
Twinned administrative body	Seto
Shares border with	Libya, Algeria
Coextensive with	Africa/Tunis
Driving side	right
Electrical plug type	Europlug, Type E
Visitor center	Tunisian National Tourist Office
Follows	Beylik of Tunis
Replaces	French protectorate of Tunisia
Significant event	Tunisian independence, Tunisian revolution
Kyɔɔtaare o naŋ nyɛ	The Economist country of the year
Hashtag	Tunisia
Top-level Internet domain	.tn
Flag	flag of Tunisia
Coat of arms	coat of arms of Tunisia
Geography of topic	geography of Tunisia
Taa beree	free country
History of topic	history of Tunisia
Railway traffic side	left
Economy of topic	economy of Tunisia
Demographics of topic	demographics of Tunisia
Madhhab	Malikism
OpenStreetMap zoom level	6
Mobile country code	605
Telephone country code	+216
Trunk prefix	00
Emergency phone number	190, 198, 193, 197
GS1 country code	619
Licence plate code	TN
Maritime identification digits	672
Sɛgebiri ba naŋ ba de sɔgele	🇹🇳
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Tunisia

Tunis (Arabic: تونس, Tūnis^ⓘ) e la kapital ane teŋkpoŋ ko Tunisia. A zikpoŋ metropolitan zie la a Tunis, ka ba meŋ maŋ boɔle ka "Grand Tunis", taa la 2,700,000 neŋkpeɛre. A 2020, ona la a teŋkpoŋ anaare soba naŋ be a Maghreb irigyin (yi a Casablanca puoriŋ ane Algiers) ane a tembɛrɛ pie ne yeni soba ko a Arab tendaa.

Suburb

Municipality	Population (2004)
Ettadhamen-Mnihla	118,487
Ariana	97,687
La Soukra	89,151
El Mourouj	81,986
La Marsa	77,890
Douar Hicher	75,844
Ben Arous	74,932
Mohamedia-Fouchana	74,620
Le Bardo	70,244
Le Kram	58,152
Oued Ellil	47,614
Radès	44,857
Raoued	53,911
Hammam Lif	38,401
La Goulette	28,407
Carthage	28,407
La Manouba	26,666
Mornag	26,406
Djedeida	24,746
Den Den	24,732
Tebourba	24,175
Mégrine	24,031
Kalâat el-Andalous	15,313
Mornaguia	13,382
Sidi Thabet	8,909
Sidi Bou Saïd	4,793
El Battan	5,761
Borj El Amri	5,556
Total	1,265,060
Sources: National Institute of Statistics

Climate

Climate data for Tunis (Tunis–Carthage International Airport) 1991–2020, extremes 1943—present
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	25.6 (78.1)	28.7 (83.7)	36.5 (97.7)	33.1 (91.6)	41.4 (106.5)	47.0 (116.6)	49.0 (120.2)	49.0 (120.2)	44.4 (111.9)	40.0 (104.0)	34.5 (94.1)	29.6 (85.3)	49.0 (120.2)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	16.4 (61.5)	16.8 (62.2)	19.4 (66.9)	22.3 (72.1)	26.5 (79.7)	31.0 (87.8)	34.0 (93.2)	34.5 (94.1)	30.5 (86.9)	26.7 (80.1)	21.5 (70.7)	17.6 (63.7)	24.8 (76.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)	12.3 (54.1)	12.5 (54.5)	14.6 (58.3)	17.2 (63.0)	21.0 (69.8)	25.1 (77.2)	28.1 (82.6)	28.7 (83.7)	25.6 (78.1)	22.0 (71.6)	17.2 (63.0)	13.5 (56.3)	19.8 (67.6)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	8.2 (46.8)	8.1 (46.6)	9.8 (49.6)	12.1 (53.8)	15.4 (59.7)	19.3 (66.7)	22.1 (71.8)	22.9 (73.2)	20.7 (69.3)	17.3 (63.1)	12.8 (55.0)	9.4 (48.9)	14.8 (58.6)
Record low °C (°F)	−5.3 (22.5)	−2.6 (27.3)	0.0 (32.0)	1.7 (35.1)	5.2 (41.4)	10.6 (51.1)	13.0 (55.4)	11.7 (53.1)	10.9 (51.6)	5.6 (42.1)	−1.1 (30.0)	−0.1 (31.8)	−5.3 (22.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	58.9 (2.32)	54.9 (2.16)	45.8 (1.80)	37.9 (1.49)	22.4 (0.88)	12.8 (0.50)	4.4 (0.17)	14.5 (0.57)	58.2 (2.29)	54.7 (2.15)	53.1 (2.09)	68.1 (2.68)	485.6 (19.12)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	8.4	8.0	6.3	5.7	3.7	1.5	0.5	1.7	5.0	5.8	6.8	8.3	61.5
Average relative humidity (%)	76	74	73	71	68	64	62	64	68	72	74	77	70
Mean monthly sunshine hours	164.1	176.8	220.0	235.8	291.4	317.3	354.6	327.3	250.7	220.7	175.2	157.8	2,891.7
Mean daily sunshine hours	4.7	5.7	6.4	7.5	9.1	10.3	11.5	10.6	8.6	7.0	5.8	4.8	7.7
Source 1: Institut National de la Météorologie (humidity 1961-1990, sun 1981–2010)
Source 2: NOAA (humidity/daily sun 1961–1990), Meteo Climat (record highs and lows)

Demography

Year	Municipality	Metropolitan area
1891	114,121
1901	146,276
1911	162,479
1921	171,676	192,994
1926	185,996	210,240
1931	202,405	235,230
1936	219,578	258,113
1946	364,593	449,820
1956	410,000	561,117
1966	468,997	679,603
1975	550,404	873,515
Sources: Sebag (1998)

International relations

Twin towns and sister cities

Tunis is twinned with:^[1]

Tɛmpileti:Country data JOR Amman, Jordan^[1]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil^[2]
Tɛmpileti:Country data CAN Montreal, Canada ^[2]
Cologne, Germany^[1]
Tɛmpileti:Country data QAT Doha, Qatar^[1]
Istanbul, Turkey^[1]
Tɛmpileti:Country data KUW Kuwait City, Kuwait^[1]
Tɛmpileti:Country data OMA Muscat, Oman^[1]
Prague, Czech Republic^[1]
Rabat, Morocco^[1]

Other cooperations

Tɛmpileti:Country data KSA Jeddah, Saudi Arabia^[1]
Lisbon, Portugal^[1]^[3]^[4]
Marseille, France^[1]
Moscow, Russia^[1]
Paris, France (Partner city)^[1]
Rome, Italy (Partner city)^[1]
Tɛmpileti:Country data CHL Santiago, Chile^[1]
Tɛmpileti:Country data UZB Tashkent, Uzbekistan^[1]
Tripoli, Libya^[1]

Notable inhabitants

Tɛmpileti:Main category

Serge Adda (1948–2004), president of the French TV channel TV5
Tarak Ben Ammar (born 1949), Tunisian-French film producer
Danièle Aron-Rosa (born 1934), French-Tunisian ophthalmologist and physician-scientist
Mustapha Ben Jafar (born 1940), Tunisian politician
Sophie Bessis, (born 1947), Franco-Tunisian historian, journalist, and researcher
Roberto Blanco (born 1937), German pop singer and actor
Alain Boublil (born 1941), French musical author
Abdelhamid Bouchnak (born 1984), filmmaker
Claudia Cardinale (born 1938), Tunisian-Italian actress
Hassen Chalghoumi (born 1972), imam
Moncef Chelli (1936–1994), philosopher and writer
Jacob Chemla (1858–1938), ceramic artist
Karine Chemla (born 1958), historian of mathematics and sinologist
Pierre Darmon (born 1934), French tennis player
Bertrand Delanoë (born 1950), mayor of Paris
Salah El Mahdi (1925–2014), musicologist and composer
Chokri El Ouaer (born 1966), football goalkeeper
Farès Ferjani (born 1997), Olympic medalist saber fencer living in the U.S.
Yehuda Getz (1924–1995), rabbi
Marc Gicquel (born 1977), French tennis player
Azza Ghanmi, feminist and activist
Tahar Haddad (1899–1935), promoter of women's emancipation in Tunisia
Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020), Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist, and feminist activist
Hédi Jouini (1909–1990), singer, oud player, and composer
Amel Karboul (born 1973), entrepreneur, business consultant, and politician
Abdellatif Kechiche (born 1960), Tunisian-French film director, screenwriter, and actor
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab sociologist and scholar
Phillip King (1934–2021), British sculptor
Margaret Maruani (born 1954), Tunisian-French sociologist, researcher
Fouad Mebazaa (1933–2025), politician, President of Tunisia in 2011
Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946–2014), Tunisian-French writer and radio staff
Albert Memmi (1920–2020), French-Tunisian writer and sociologist
Fatma Moalla (born 1939), mathematician
Khaled Mouelhi (born 1981), footballer
Alberto Pellegrino (1930–1996), Italian Olympic medalist épée and foil fencer
Nicola Pietrangeli (born 1933), Italian tennis player
Karim Saidi (born 1983), footballer
Georges-Elia Sarfati (born 1957), philosopher, linguist, poet, existentialist psychoanalyst, and author
Joseph Sitruk (1944–2016), rabbi
Georges Wolinski (1934–2015), French illustrator and caricaturist killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting
Yazid Zerhouni (1937–2020), Algerian politician

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Bibliography

Messikh, Mohamed Sadek (2000). Tunis: la mémoire. Paris: Du Layeur. ISBN 978-2-911468-44-5.
Sebag, Paul (1998). Tunis: Histoire d'une ville. Histoire et Perspectives Méditerranéennes. Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-7384-6610-5.
Tɛmpileti:Cite conference

Nimitɔɔre zannoo

Jellal Abdelkafi, La médina de Tunis, éd. Presses du CNRS, Paris, 1989
Alia Baccar-Bournaz [sous la dir. de], Tunis, cité de la mer (acte d'un colloque de 1997), éd. L'Or du temps, Tunis, 1999
Philippe Di Folco, Le goût de Tunis, éd. Mercure de France, Paris, 2007
Faouzia Ben Khoud, Tunis. Architectural Guide. Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86922-676-7.
Abdelwahab Meddeb, Talismano, éd. Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1979
Horst-Günter Wagner, Die Altstadt von Tunis. Funktionswandel von Handwerk und Handel 1968–1995. (The Medina of Tunis. Functional change of handicraft and commerce 1968–1995). Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 140, 1996, 5/6, S. 343–365.

Ziiri mine sommo

Tɛmpileti:Wikivoyage

The Municipality of Tunis official website
The Municipality of Tunis official website (in Arabic)
The Municipality of Tunis official website (in French)
Lexicorient Archived 2010-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
TunisForum:Guide ou sortir en Tunisie Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
Video tour of the Bardo Museum
Video of Tunis Medina
Old maps of Tunis Archived 2021-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, Historic Cities Archived 2022-03-25 at the Wayback Machine site

Tɛmpileti:Medina of Tunis Tɛmpileti:List of African capitals Tɛmpileti:Capitals of Arab countries Tɛmpileti:Arab Capital of Culture

Sommo Yizie

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 (in French) Coopération internationale (Municipalité de Tunis)
1 2 "بوابة مدينة تونس". Commune-tunis.gov.tn. Retrieved 2020-05-29.
↑ "Lisboa – Geminações de Cidades e Vilas" [Lisbon – Twinning of Cities and Towns]. Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [National Association of Portuguese Municipalities] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
↑ "Acordos de Geminação, de Cooperação e/ou Amizade da Cidade de Lisboa" [Lisbon – Twinning Agreements, Cooperation and Friendship]. Camara Municipal de Lisboa (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-08-23.

[tunis-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 (in French) Coopération internationale (Municipalité de Tunis)

[commune-tunis1-2] 1 2 "بوابة مدينة تونس". Commune-tunis.gov.tn. Retrieved 2020-05-29.

[Lisbon_twinnings-3] "Lisboa – Geminações de Cidades e Vilas" [Lisbon – Twinning of Cities and Towns]. Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [National Association of Portuguese Municipalities] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2013-08-23.

[Lisbon_twinnings_2-4] "Acordos de Geminação, de Cooperação e/ou Amizade da Cidade de Lisboa" [Lisbon – Twinning Agreements, Cooperation and Friendship]. Camara Municipal de Lisboa (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-08-23.

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