Skhira
Skhira is a coastal town in Sfax Governorate, central-eastern Tunisia. It is located at around. It lies on the coast of the Gulf of Gabes. It has a large oil terminal for pipelines coming from the Tunisian and Algerian oilfields.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 11,900 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Aş Şukhayrah”, “Cekhira”, “El Skhirra”, “La Skhirra”, “La Skhrira”, “La Srira”, “Sekhira”, “Skhrira”, “Skira”, and “Srira”
Skhira
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia and imada
- Location: Skhira, Sfax Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Skhira” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الصخيرة”
- Arabic: “الصخيره”
- Arabic: “صخيرة”
- Bulgarian: “Скхира”
- Catalan: “La Skhira”
- Catalan: “Skhira”
- Cebuano: “Skhira”
- Chinese: “希拉”
- Danish: “Skhira”
- Dutch: “Skhira”
- French: “Skhira”
- German: “Skhira”
- Japanese: “スキラ (都市)”
- Korean: “스크히라”
- Korean: “스키라”
- Persian: “الصخیره”
- Romanian: “Skhira”
- Russian: “Сехира”
- Russian: “Шхира”
- Scots: “Skhira”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Skhira”
- Turkish: “Suheyre”
- Ukrainian: “Схіра”
- Welsh: “Skhira”
- Zulu: “Skhira”
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