Sousse Governorate
Sousse Governorate (Arabic: ولاية سوسة <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 Sūsah) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the northeastern part of the country. It covers an area of 2,621 km².[1] As of the 2014 census, 674,971 people lived there.[2][3] The capital is Sousse.
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سوسة | |
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 Map of Tunisia with Sousse highlighted | |
| Coordinates: 35°50′N 10°38′E / 35.833°N 10.633°ECoordinates: 35°50′N 10°38′E / 35.833°N 10.633°E | |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Created | June 21, 1956[1] |
| Capital | Sousse |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,669 km2 (1,031 sq mi) |
| • Rank | Ranked 19th of 24 |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 674,971 |
| • Rank | Ranked 4th of 24 |
| • Density | 252.89/km2 (654.99/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01 (CET) |
| Postal prefix | xx |
| ISO 3166 code | TN-51 |
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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