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Douz

Douz is a small town in south-central of . Referred to as the "Gateway to the Sahara", Douz is a popular destination for tourists looking to experience the desert, either by camel or four-wheel drive.
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  • Type: Town with 30,200 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “Dūz”

Douz

Latitude
33.4571° or 33° 27′ 26″ north
Longitude
9.025° or 9° 1′ 30″ east
Population
30,200
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Open location code
8F5FF24F+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 264881676
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2471287
Wiki­data ID
Q1009268
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Douz” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المرازيق”
  • Arabic: “دوز”
  • Bulgarian: “Доуз”
  • Catalan: “Douz”
  • Cebuano: “Douz”
  • Chinese: “杜兹”
  • Chinese: “杜茲”
  • Dutch: “Douz”
  • Finnish: “Douz”
  • French: “Douz”
  • German: “Douz”
  • Hebrew: “דוז”
  • Italian: “Douz”
  • Kabyle: “Duz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Douz”
  • Polish: “Douz”
  • Polish: “Duz”
  • Portuguese: “Douz”
  • Romanian: “Douz”
  • Russian: “Дуз”
  • Scots: “Douz”
  • Swahili: “Douz”
  • Turkish: “Duz”
  • Ukrainian: “Дуз”
  • Welsh: “Douz”
  • Zulu: “Douz”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Douz”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.