Lake of Tunis
The Lake of Tunis is a natural lagoon located between the Tunisian capital city of Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis. The lake covers a total of 37 square kilometres, in contrast to its size its depth is very shallow. It was once the natural harbour of Tunis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lagoon
- Description: lake in Tunisia
- Also known as: “Buhayra Tunis”, “Buḩayrat Tūnis”, “Complexe lac de Tunis”, “El Bahira”, “El Baihra”, and “Tunis Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chikly and Fort Santiago Chikly.
Chikly
Island
Chikly is a small island located in the northern part of Lake of Tunis which houses Fort Santiago Chikly, a former Roman citadel which was reconstructed by the Spanish Governor of Golettaalso its connected to the kram through a path made of rocks, Luys Peres Varga, between 1546 and 1550. Chikly is situated 3 km west of Lake of Tunis.
Fort Santiago Chikly
Fort
Photo: IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Santiago Chikly is situated 3 km west of Lake of Tunis.
Mediterranean School of Business
University
Photo: Youssefbensaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mediterranean School of Business is a private for-profit business school in Les Berges du Lac, Tunisia. It is part of South Mediterranean University. MSB is the first business school in the French-speaking Tunisia with programs and activities organized in English. Mediterranean School of Business is situated 4 km northeast of Lake of Tunis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berges du Lac and La Goulette.
Berges du Lac
Suburb
Les Berges du Lac is an affluent neighborhood in Tunis, Tunisia. It has developed since the 1980s after building polders in Tunis Lake. It harbors many embassies, companies, and institutions, including: The Berges du Lac development does not currently serve alcohol.
La Goulette
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 2.0.
La Goulette, in Arabic Halq al-Wadi, is a municipality and the port of Tunis, Tunisia. La Goulette is located at around on a sandbar between Lake Tūnis and the Gulf of Tunis.
Mégrine
Town
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Mégrine is a town and commune in the Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia. It has the head office of Monoprix, Tunisia. Mégrine is situated 5 km south of Lake of Tunis.
Lake of Tunis
- Categories: lake, protected area, and body of water
- Location: Tunis Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake of Tunis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البحيرة El Bahira”
- Arabic: “البحيرة El Buhayra”
- Arabic: “بحيرة تونس”
- Basque: “Tunisko aintzira”
- Catalan: “llac de Tunis”
- Catalan: “Llac de Tunis”
- Chinese: “突尼斯湖”
- Chuvash: “Тунис кӳлли”
- Dutch: “Lake of Tunis”
- Dutch: “Meer van Tunis”
- Esperanto: “Lago Tunizo”
- French: “lac de Tunis”
- French: “Lac de Tunis”
- German: “See von Tunis”
- Hebrew: “אגם תוניס”
- Italian: “lago di Tunisi”
- Italian: “Lago di Tunisi”
- Japanese: “チュニス湖”
- Lithuanian: “Tuniso ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Туниско Езеро”
- Persian: “دریاچه تونس”
- Polish: “Jezioro Tuniskie”
- Russian: “Бахира”
- Russian: “Тунисское озеро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tunisko jezero”
- Slovenian: “Jezero Tunis”
- Spanish: “Lago de Tunez”
- Spanish: “Lago de Túnez”
- Turkish: “Tunus Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Туніське озеро”
- Venetian: “Łago de Tùnixi”
- Venetian: “Łago de Tùnizi”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tiwnis”
- Welsh: “Llyn Tunis”
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