Siliana Governorate

Siliana Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية سليانة <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 Silyānah pronounced [ˌsɪlˈjæːnæ]) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the northern part of the country. It covers an area of 4,631 km².[1] As of the 2014 census, 223,087 people lived there.[2][3] The capital is Siliana.

سليانة
Map of Tunisia with Siliana highlighted
Map of Tunisia with Siliana highlighted
Coordinates: 36°10′N 9°22′E / 36.167°N 9.367°E / 36.167; 9.367Coordinates: 36°10′N 9°22′E / 36.167°N 9.367°E / 36.167; 9.367
CountryTunisia
CreatedJune 5, 1974[1]
CapitalSiliana
Area
 • Total4,642 km2 (1,792 sq mi)
 • RankRanked 12th of 24
Population
 (2014)
 • Total223,087
 • RankRanked 20th of 24
 • Density48.058/km2 (124.471/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01 (CET)
Postal prefix
xx
ISO 3166 codeTN-34

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