El Jem

El Jem is a town of 22,000 people in the east of that holds the remains of a UNESCO World Heritage listed Roman amphitheater.
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  • Town with 18,300 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 112 metres (367 feet)
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Address: El Djem, 5160
  • Postal code: 5160
  • Also known as
    “Al Jamm”
    “El Djem”
    “El Jemm”
    “Sidi el Djem”
    “Thysdrus”

El Jem

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Latitude
35.2966° or 35° 17′ 48″ north
Longitude
10.7128° or 10° 42′ 46″ east
UN/LOCODE
TN TZC
Open location code
8F7G7PW7+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299240195
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2473654
Wiki­data ID
Q291012

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“El Jem” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجم”
  • Armenian: “ալ-Ջամ”
  • Armenian: “Էլ Ջեմ”
  • Basque: “El Djem”
  • Catalan: “El Djem”
  • Catalan: “El Jem”
  • Cebuano: “El Jem”
  • Chinese: “傑姆”
  • Chinese: “杰姆”
  • Czech: “Džem”
  • Czech: “El Džem”
  • Czech: “El-Džem”
  • Danish: “El Djem”
  • Dutch: “El Djem”
  • Finnish: “El Jem”
  • French: “El Jem”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ჯემი”
  • German: “El Djem”
  • Greek: “Ελ Τζεμ”
  • Hausa: “El Djem”
  • Hebrew: “אל ג’ם”
  • Hungarian: “el-Dzsem”
  • Hungarian: “El-Dzsem”
  • Indonesian: “El Djem”
  • Italian: “El Jem”
  • Japanese: “エル・ジェム”
  • Javanese: “El Djem”
  • Korean: “엘젬”
  • Lithuanian: “El Džemas”
  • Macedonian: “Ел Џем”
  • Macedonian: “ел-Џем”
  • Malay: “El Djem”
  • Persian: “الجم”
  • Polish: “Al-Dżamm”
  • Portuguese: “El Djem”
  • Portuguese: “El Jem”
  • Romanian: “El Djem”
  • Romanian: “El Jem”
  • Russian: “Эль Джем”
  • Russian: “Эль-Джамм”
  • Russian: “Эль-Джем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “El Djem”
  • Slovenian: “El Džem”
  • Spanish: “El Djem”
  • Swahili: “El Djem”
  • Turkish: “El Cem”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Джем”
  • Urdu: “الجم”
  • Welsh: “El Jem”
  • Zulu: “El Djem Delegation”
  • Zulu: “El Djem”

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