Kairouan

Kairouan Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of . It is landlocked and in the centre-east of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km2 and has a population of 600,803.
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  • Governorate of Tunisia with 571,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 163 metres (535 feet)
  • Description: governorate in Tunisia
  • Also known as
    “Al Qayrawān”
    “Kairouan Governorate”
    “Qayrawān”
    “Wilāyat al Qayrawān”

Kairouan

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Latitude
35.5833° or 35° 35′ north
Longitude
9.8333° or 9° 50′ east
Open location code
8F7FHRMM+88
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Kairouan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካይሮወን”
  • Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Arabic: “ولاية القيروان”
  • Arabic: “ولايه القيروان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kayruan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qeyrəvan vilayəti”
  • Bashkir: “Каруан”
  • Belarusian: “Вілает Кайруан”
  • Belarusian: “Кайруан”
  • Belarusian: “Кайрўан”
  • Bengali: “কাইরোয়ান”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайруан”
  • Catalan: “governació de Kairuan”
  • Catalan: “Governació de Kairuan”
  • Catalan: “Governadorat de Kairuan”
  • Catalan: “Kairuan”
  • Catalan: “wilaya de Kairuan”
  • Cebuano: “gobernasyon sa Këyrëwan”
  • Cebuano: “Gouvernorat de Kairouan”
  • Chinese: “凯鲁万省”
  • Chinese: “凱魯萬省”
  • Czech: “Kajruván”
  • Dutch: “Kairouan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولاية القيروان”
  • French: “Gouvernorat de Kairouan”
  • French: “Kairouan”
  • German: “Gouvernement Kairouan”
  • German: “Gouvernorat Kairouan”
  • German: “TN-41”
  • Greek: “Καϊρουάν”
  • Greek: “Κυβερνείο της Καϊρουάν”
  • Hausa: “Kairouan Governorate”
  • Hausa: “Kairouan”
  • Hebrew: “קירואן”
  • Hindi: “क़ैरवान प्रांत”
  • Indonesian: “Governorat kairouan”
  • Indonesian: “Kegubernuran Kairouan”
  • Irish: “Kairouan”
  • Italian: “Governatorato di al-Qayrawan”
  • Italian: “governatorato di Kairouan”
  • Italian: “Kairouan”
  • Japanese: “ケルアン県”
  • Javanese: “Kairouan”
  • Kazakh: “Кайруан”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайруан”
  • Korean: “카이로우안 주”
  • Korean: “카이로우완 주”
  • Korean: “카이루안 주”
  • Korean: “카이루완 주”
  • Korean: “카이르안 주”
  • Korean: “카이르완주”
  • Malay: “Kawasan kegabenoran Kairouan”
  • Maltese: “Governorat ta‘ Kairouan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kairouan (Guwernement)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kairouan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kairouan”
  • Norwegian: “Kairouan”
  • Oromo: “Qayruwaan”
  • Pampanga: “gobernasiun ning Kairawan”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਰੋਵਾਨ”
  • Persian: “استان قیروان”
  • Polish: “Gubernatorstwo Kairouan”
  • Polish: “Gubernatorstwo Kairuan”
  • Portuguese: “Cairuão (província)”
  • Portuguese: “Cairuão”
  • Portuguese: “Kairouan (província)”
  • Portuguese: “Kairouan”
  • Portuguese: “Keruão”
  • Pushto: “قيروان”
  • Romanian: “Guvernoratul Kairouan”
  • Russian: “Каируан”
  • Russian: “Кайруан”
  • Scots: “Kairouan Governorate”
  • Scots: “Kairouan Govrenorate”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kairuan (vilajet)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kairuan”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෝවාන් පළාත, ටියුනීසියාව”
  • Somali: “Qayruwaan”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Cairuán”
  • Spanish: “Gobernación de Keruán”
  • Spanish: “Kairouan”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Kairouan”
  • Tajik: “Қайруон”
  • Tatar: “Кайруан”
  • Thai: “เขตผู้ว่าการอัลก็อยเราะวาน”
  • Turkish: “Kayravan”
  • Turkish: “Kayrevan”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайруан”
  • Urdu: “قیروان”
  • Urdu: “ولایت قیروان”
  • Uzbek: “Qayravon viloyati”
  • Welsh: “Kairouan”
  • Zulu: “Kairouan Governorate”

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