El Jem
El Jem is a town of 22,000 people in the east of Tunisia that holds the remains of a UNESCO World Heritage listed Roman amphitheater.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ali Afghah, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 18,300 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Al Jamm”, “El Djem”, “El Jemm”, “Sidi el Djem”, and “Thysdrus”
- Address: El Djem, 5160
- Postal code: 5160
El Jem
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia and locality
- Location: Es-Zaouia, El Djem, Mahdia Governorate, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.2966° or 35° 17′ 48″ northLongitude
10.7128° or 10° 42′ 46″ eastPopulation
18,300Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)United Nations Location Code
TN TZCOpen location code
8F7G7PW7+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 299240195OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“El Jem” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجم”
- 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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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 “El Jem”. Photo: Ali Afghah, CC BY 3.0.