Kasserine Governorate
Kasserine Governorate (Arabic: ولاية الڨصرين <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639-2' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Wilāyat al-Gaṣrīn) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the west-central part of the country. It covers an area of 8,260 km².[1] As of the 2014 census, 439,243 people lived there.[2][3] The capital is Kasserine.
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ڨصرين | |
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| Map of Tunisia with Kasserine highlighted Map of Tunisia with Kasserine highlighted | |
| Coordinates: 35°10′N 8°50′E / 35.167°N 8.833°ECoordinates: 35°10′N 8°50′E / 35.167°N 8.833°E | |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Created | June 21, 1956[1] |
| Capital | Kasserine |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Chedli Boualeg (2015) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,260 km2 (3,190 sq mi) |
| • Rank | Ranked 4th of 24 |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 439,243 |
| • Rank | Ranked 11th of 24 |
| • Density | 53.18/km2 (137.73/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01 (CET) |
| Postal prefix | 1200 |
| ISO 3166 code | TN-42 |
Kasserine Governorate Media
Capitoline temples of Sbeitla: Minerva (left), Jupiter (center), Juno (right), Tunisia
- Sbeitla 01.jpg
Great Baths of Sbeitla, Tunisia
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Arch of Diocletian or Triumphal Arch of the Tetrarchy, Sbeitla, Tunisia
- Sbeitla Arch of Antoninus Pius.jpg
Arch of Antoninus Pius on the left, leading into the courtyard of the Sbeitla Forum, built in 139 AD according to an inscription on the entrance archway
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (in French) "tunisieindustrie.nat.tn". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17.
- ↑ "2014 Tunisian census data". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
- ↑ (in French) Census 2014 (National Institute of Statistics) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
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