Béja
Béja is a city in Tunisia. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located 105 kilometers from Tunis, between the Medjerdah River and the Mediterranean, against the foothills of the Khroumire, the town of Béja is situated on the sides of Djebel Acheb, facing the greening meadows, its white terraces and red roofs dominated by the imposing ruins of the old Roman fortress.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nidhal Bechrifa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 57,000 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Bājah” and “Beja”
Béja
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia, imada, and locality
- Location: Béja Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
36.7237° or 36° 43′ 25″ northLongitude
9.1854° or 9° 11′ 7″ eastPopulation
57,000Elevation
248 metres (814 feet)United Nations Location Code
TN BEJOpen location code
8F8FP5FP+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 287590041OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Zulu—“Béja” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Οὐάγα”
- Arabic: “الباجة”
- Arabic: “باجة”
- Belarusian: “Беджа”
- Belarusian: “Бэджа (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Бэджа (места)”
- Belarusian: “Бэджа (Туніс)”
- Belarusian: “Бэджа”
- Bengali: “বেজা”
- Catalan: “Béja”
- Cebuano: “Béja (kapital sa lalawigan sa Tunisia)”
- Cebuano: “Béja”
- Cebuano: “Mu‘tamadīyat Bājah”
- Chinese: “巴杰”
- Danish: “Beja”
- Danish: “Béja”
- Dutch: “Bajah”
- Dutch: “Bedja”
- Dutch: “Beja”
- Dutch: “Béja”
- Esperanto: “Béja”
- Finnish: “Béja”
- French: “Béja”
- French: “Vaga”
- German: “Badscha”
- German: “Bêdscha”
- German: “Beja”
- German: “Béja”
- Greek: “Μπατζά”
- Greek: “Μπετζά”
- Gujarati: “બેજા”
- Hebrew: “בז’ה”
- Hindi: “बेखा”
- Hungarian: “Bádzsa”
- Hungarian: “Bezsa”
- Indonesian: “Béja”
- Irish: “Béja”
- Italian: “Béja”
- Japanese: “ベジャ”
- Kabyle: “Baja”
- Kannada: “ಬೇಜಾ”
- Korean: “베자 (튀니지)”
- Korean: “베자”
- Latin: “Vacca”
- Latin: “Vaga”
- Latvian: “Bedža”
- Lithuanian: “Badža”
- Lithuanian: “Bedža (Tunisas)”
- Luxembourgish: “Beja”
- Malay: “Béja”
- Marathi: “बेजा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beja”
- Persian: “باجه (تونس)”
- Persian: “باجه”
- Polish: “Badża”
- Polish: “Béja”
- Portuguese: “Béja”
- Romanian: “Beja, tunisia”
- Romanian: “Beja, Tunisia”
- Romanian: “Béja”
- Russian: “Беджа”
- Scots: “Béja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Béja”
- Sinhala: “බෙජා”
- South Azerbaijani: “باجه (تونس)”
- South Azerbaijani: “باجه”
- Spanish: “Bajah”
- Spanish: “Beja”
- Spanish: “Béja”
- Swedish: “Beja”
- Tamil: “பெஜா”
- Telugu: “బేజా”
- Thai: “บาญะฮ์”
- Thai: “เบฌา”
- Turkish: “Bace”
- Turkish: “Beca”
- Ukrainian: “Беджа (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Беджа”
- Urdu: “باجہ”
- Uzbek: “Béja gubernatorligi”
- Vietnamese: “Béja”
- Welsh: “Beja”
- Welsh: “Béja”
- Zulu: “Béja”
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