Kerkenah
Kerkennah Islands are a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès and to the east of Sfax, at. The Islands are low-lying, being no more than 13 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: archipelago
- Description: Tunisian archipelago
- Also known as: “Delegation de Kerkennah”, “Délégation de Kerkennah”, “Délégation de Melita”, “Kerkennah”, “Kerkennah Islands”, “Mu‘tamadīyat Qarqanah”, and “Qarqanah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Farhat Hached stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Remla.
Remla
Town
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Remla is the main town of the Kerkennah Islands, Tunisia. It is part of the Sfax Governorate. A three-day Octopus Festival in March marks the start of the octopus fishing season. The sector had a population of 2,623 as of Census 2014-04-23.
Kerkenah
- Category: municipality of Tunisia
- Location: Sfax Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Kerkenah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرخبيل قرقنة”
- Arabic: “جزر قرقنة”
- Arabic: “جزيرة قرقنة”
- Arabic: “قرقنة”
- Arabic: “قرقنه”
- Arabic: “معتمدية قرقنة”
- Asturian: “Islles Kerkennah”
- Bashkir: “Ҡерҡенна”
- Basque: “Kerkenna”
- Belarusian: “Керкена”
- Catalan: “Cercina”
- Catalan: “Illes Kerkennah”
- Catalan: “Kerkenah”
- Catalan: “Kerkenna”
- Catalan: “Kerkennah”
- Catalan: “Qerqenna”
- Catalan: “Quèrquens”
- Cebuano: “Île Chergui”
- Cebuano: “Îles de Kerkenah”
- Chinese: “克肯納群島”
- Chinese: “克肯纳群岛”
- Chinese: “蓋爾甘奈群島”
- Czech: “Kerkennah”
- Czech: “ostrovy Kerkenna”
- Danish: “Kerkennah-øerne”
- Dutch: “Cercina”
- Dutch: “Kerkenna eilanden”
- Dutch: “Kerkenna-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Kerkenna”
- Dutch: “Kerkennah Eilanden”
- Dutch: “Kerkennah”
- Esperanto: “Kerkennah-insuloj”
- Finnish: “Kerkena”
- Finnish: “Kerkenna-saaret”
- French: “îles Kerkennah”
- French: “Kerkennah”
- German: “Cercena”
- German: “Kerkenah”
- German: “Kerkenna-Inseln”
- German: “Kerkenna”
- German: “Kyrannis”
- Greek: “Νησιά Κερκένα”
- Hebrew: “איי כרכנה”
- Hebrew: “איי קרקנה”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Kerkennah”
- Italian: “Isole Kerkenna”
- Japanese: “ケルケナ諸島”
- Korean: “케르케나제도”
- Lithuanian: “Kerkenos salos”
- Macedonian: “Керкена (острови)”
- Macedonian: “Керкена”
- Persian: “جزایر قرقنه”
- Persian: “قرقنه”
- Polish: “Dżuzur Karkana”
- Polish: “Kerkennah”
- Polish: “Wyspy Karkanna”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Kerkennah”
- Portuguese: “Kerkennah”
- Russian: “Керкенна”
- Russian: “Керкина”
- Rusyn: “Керкена”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kerkenna”
- Sicilian: “Ìsuli Kerkenna”
- Sinhala: “කර්කෙනා දූපත්, ටියුනීසියාව”
- Spanish: “islas Kerkennah”
- Spanish: “Islas Querquenes”
- Spanish: “los Querquenes”
- Spanish: “Querquenes”
- Turkish: “Kekrene Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Керкенна”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Kerkennah”
- Zulu: “Kerkennah Islands”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Îles de Kerkenah and Bordj el Hessar.
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