Moularès
Moularès is a town and commune in the Gafsa Governorate, Tunisia. At the 2004 census, it had a population of 24,487. The town's economy has been dominated by phosphate mining since the early 20th century.Photo: Abidi Haythem, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 24,500 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Aïn Moularès”, “Moulares”, “Moularès, Tunisia”, “Umm al ‘Arā’is”, and “بلدية أم العرائس”
Moularès
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia, imada, and locality
- Location: Oum El Araies Gare, Oum El Araies, Gafsa, Saharan Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
34.48574° or 34° 29′ 9″ northLongitude
8.27338° or 8° 16′ 24″ eastPopulation
24,500Elevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)Open location code
8F6CF7PF+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 2165194615OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2464378Wikidata ID
Q642846
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Moularès” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم العرائس”
- Arabic: “أم العرايس”
- Catalan: “Oum Larais”
- Dutch: “Moularès, Tunisia”
- French: “Moularès”
- German: “Umm al-‘Arāis”
- Italian: “Moularès”
- Persian: “امالعرائس”
- Polish: “Umm al-Arais”
- Swahili: “Moularès, Tunisia”
- Turkish: “Ummü’l-Arayis”
- Turkish: “Ümmü’l-Arayis”
- Ukrainian: “Муларес”
- Welsh: “Oum El Araies”
- Zulu: “Moularès, Thuniziya”
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