Carthage, on its coast, was Rome's great rival, and parts of the Star Wars desert scenes were filmed here.
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Tunisia
Tunisian Republic ยท ุชููุณ
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
163.61Kkmยฒ of land
$3.32KGDP / person
TunisCapital
- ISO codes
- TN ยท TUN
- Density
- 72 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Tunisian dinar (TND)
- Dial code
- +216
- Internet domain
- .tn
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 33.6870ยฐ N, 9.0080ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Tunisian
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $38.8B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Tunisia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
77th
of 242 ยท 0.15% of world population
Land area
94th
of 242 ยท 0.11% of world land
GDP per person
171st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
132nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Tunisia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 11,694,719 people, the 77th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.15 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 163,610 kmยฒ, making it the 94th largest country here - about 5.4 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 72 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Tunis, at 36.80ยฐ N, 10.18ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,412,500.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Algeria and Libya.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Tunis.
The currency is the Tunisian dinar (TND, symbol ุฏ.ุช).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Tunis
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Tunis
Tunis
36.8028ยฐ N, 10.1797ยฐ E
2.41M
2
Sousse
Sousse
35.8300ยฐ N, 10.6250ยฐ E
327K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Tunisia.