Djerba
Djerba is an island and a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in south Tunisia with beautiful sandy beaches and beautiful, peaceful and silent countryside.
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- Type: Locality with 176,000 residents
- Description: island in Tunisia
- Also known as: “Cerbe adası”, “Djerba Island”, “Dschirba”, “Dżarba”, “Gelves”, “Gerbi”, “Girba”, “Ile de Jerba”, “Illa de Gerba”, “illa de Gèrba”, “Illa de Jerba”, “Isla de Gerba”, “Isla de los Gelves”, “Isla de yerba”, “Jarba”, “Jarbah‘ saar”, “Los Gelves”, “Meninx”, “Ostrov Djerba”, “ג’רבא”, “דג’רבה”, “ז’רבה”, “الجربي”, “الجربية”, “جربي”, “جربية”, “جزيرة الأحلام”, “جزيرة جربة”, “เกาะเจอร์บา”, and “เกาะแจร์บา”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Borj El Kebir and Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Djerba.
Djerba
- Category: island
- Location: Bou Melel, Djerba Houmet Souk, Medenine Governorate, Central Coastal Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.8761° or 33° 52′ 34″ north
Longitude
10.8518° or 10° 51′ 6″ east
Population
176,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
8F5GVVG2+CP
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Djerba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جربة”
- Aragonese: “Cherba”
- Armenian: “Ջարբա”
- Armenian: “Ջերբա (կղզի)”
- Azerbaijani: “Cerba”
- Bashkir: “Джерба (утрау)”
- Bashkir: “Джерба”
- Basque: “Jerba”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Джэрба”
- Belarusian: “Джэрба”
- Bulgarian: “Джерба”
- Catalan: “Gerba”
- Cebuano: “Île de Jerba”
- Chinese: “傑爾巴島”
- Chinese: “杰尔巴岛”
- Corsican: “Ghjerba”
- Croatian: “Djerba”
- Czech: “Džerba”
- Danish: “Djerba”
- Dutch: “Djerba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جربه”
- Esperanto: “Ĝerbao”
- Estonian: “Jarbah”
- Finnish: “Djerba”
- French: “Djerba”
- Galician: “Xerba”
- German: “Djerba”
- Greek: “Τζέρμπα”
- Hebrew: “ג’רבה”
- Hindi: “जेरबा”
- Hungarian: “Dzserba”
- Indonesian: “Djerba”
- Italian: “Gerba”
- Japanese: “ジェルバ島”
- Kabyle: “Ǧerba”
- Korean: “제르바섬”
- Ladino: “Djerba”
- Limburgan: “Djerba”
- Lithuanian: “Džerba”
- Luxembourgish: “Djerba”
- Macedonian: “Џерба”
- Malay: “Djerba”
- Maltese: “Djerba”
- Marathi: “जेर्बा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Djerba”
- Norwegian: “Djerba”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gèrba”
- Persian: “جربه”
- Polish: “Dżerba”
- Portuguese: “Djerba”
- Romanian: “Djerba”
- Russian: “Джерба”
- Sardinian: “Gerba”
- Scots: “Djerba”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Djerba”
- Sicilian: “Ggherbi”
- Sinhala: “ඩ්‘ජබා දූපත, ටියුනීසියාව”
- Sinhala: “ඩ්’ජබා දූපත, ටියුනීසියාව”
- Slovak: “Džerba”
- Slovenian: “Džerba”
- Spanish: “Yerba”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵊⵔⴱⴰ”
- Swedish: “Djerba”
- Thai: “เกาะญิรบะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Cerbe”
- Ukrainian: “Джерба”
- Urdu: “جربہ”
- Welsh: “Djerba”
- Yiddish: “דזשערבא”
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