Tunis Governorate
Tunis Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية تونس <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 Tūnis) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the northeastern part of the country. It covers an area of 346 km².[1] As of the 2014 census, 1,056,247 people lived there.[2][3] The capital is Tunis, which is also the national capital. It is the smallest governorate of the country by area and is also the most populated governorate of the country.
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تونس | |
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 Map of Tunisia with Tunis highlighted | |
| Coordinates: 36°48′0″N 10°10′12″E / 36.80000°N 10.17000°ECoordinates: 36°48′0″N 10°10′12″E / 36.80000°N 10.17000°E | |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Created | June 1956[1] |
| Capital | Tunis |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Mondher Friji (DCR) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 346 km2 (134 sq mi) |
| • Rank | Ranked 24th of 24 |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 1,056,247 |
| • Rank | Ranked 1st of 24 |
| • Density | 3,053/km2 (7,907/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01 (CET) |
| Postal prefix | 10xx |
| ISO 3166 code | TN-11 |
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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