Tunisia
Gafsa Governorate
Gafsa Sud

Gafsa

Gafsa is the capital of in . With a population of 120,739, Gafsa is the ninth-largest Tunisian city and is 335 km from the country's capital, .
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  • Type: City with 111,000 residents
  • Description: City of Tunisia
  • Also known as: “Gafşah”, “Gafso”, “Justiniania”, and “Qafşah”

Gafsa

Latitude
34.4224° or 34° 25′ 21″ north
Longitude
8.7844° or 8° 47′ 4″ east
Population
111,000
Elevation
295 metres (968 feet)
IATA airport code
GAF
United Nations Location Code
TN GAF
Open location code
8F6CCQCM+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287545859
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2468353
Wiki­data ID
Q466006
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Gafsa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ڤفصة”
  • Arabic: “قفصة”
  • Armenian: “Գաֆսա”
  • Basque: “Gafsa”
  • Belarusian: “Гафса (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Гафса (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Гафса (Туніс)”
  • Belarusian: “Гафса”
  • Catalan: “Capsa”
  • Catalan: “Gafsa”
  • Catalan: “Kafsa”
  • Cebuano: “Gafsa (kapital sa lalawigan sa Tunisia)”
  • Cebuano: “Gafsa”
  • Chinese: “加夫萨”
  • Chinese: “加夫薩”
  • Chinese: “突尼西亞城市”
  • Czech: “Gafsa”
  • Danish: “Gafsa”
  • Dutch: “Gafsa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قفصه”
  • Esperanto: “Gafsa”
  • Finnish: “Gafsa”
  • Finnish: “Qafsah”
  • French: “Gafsa”
  • Georgian: “გაფსა”
  • German: “Gafsa”
  • German: “Gawsa”
  • German: “Qafsa”
  • German: “Qafsah”
  • Greek: “Κάφσα”
  • Hebrew: “גאפסה”
  • Hungarian: “Gafsza”
  • Indonesian: “Gafsa”
  • Italian: “Capsa”
  • Italian: “Gafsa”
  • Italian: “Qafsah”
  • Japanese: “ガフサ”
  • Kazakh: “Гафса”
  • Korean: “가프사”
  • Lithuanian: “Gafsa”
  • Malay: “Gafsa”
  • Moksha: “Гафса”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gafsa”
  • Persian: “قفصه”
  • Polish: “Capsa”
  • Polish: “Kafsa”
  • Portuguese: “Gafsa”
  • Romanian: “Gafsa”
  • Russian: “Гафса”
  • Scots: “Gafsa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gafsa”
  • Slovenian: “Gafsa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قفصه”
  • Spanish: “Capsa”
  • Spanish: “Gafsa”
  • Swahili: “Gafsa”
  • Swedish: “Capsa”
  • Swedish: “Gafsa”
  • Swedish: “Qafsah”
  • Tatar: “Кафсә”
  • Thai: “Gafsa”
  • Thai: “ก็อฟเศาะฮ์”
  • Thai: “กัฟซา”
  • Turkish: “Gafsa”
  • Turkish: “Kafsa”
  • Ukrainian: “Гафса”
  • Urdu: “قفصہ”
  • Uzbek: “Gafsa gubernatorligi”
  • Welsh: “Gafsa”
  • Zulu: “Gafsa”

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