Kef Governorate

Kef Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية الكاف <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Wilāyat el-Kāf) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the northwestern part of the country. It covers an area of 4,965 km².[1] As of the 2014 census, 243,156 people lived there.[2][3] The capital is El Kef.

ولاية الكاف
Map of Tunisia with Kef highlighted
Map of Tunisia with Kef highlighted
Coordinates: 36°10′56″N 8°42′53″E / 36.18222°N 8.71472°E / 36.18222; 8.71472Coordinates: 36°10′56″N 8°42′53″E / 36.18222°N 8.71472°E / 36.18222; 8.71472
CountryTunisia
CreatedJune 21, 1956[1]
CapitalEl Kef
Area
 • Total4,965 km2 (1,917 sq mi)
 • RankRanked 10th of 24
Population
 (2014)
 • Total243,156
 • RankRanked 19th of 24
 • Density48.974/km2 (126.842/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01 (CET)
Postal prefix
xx
ISO 3166 codeTN-33

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 (in French) "tunisieindustrie.nat.tn". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17.
  2. "2014 Tunisian census data". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
  3. (in French) Census 2014 (National Institute of Statistics) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine