El Kef
El Kef is a small city in northwest Tunisia. The city is built onto the southern face of the Jebel Dyr Mountain, which is part of the Tebersouk Mountains, the eastern end of the High Atlas Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 73,700 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Al-Kaf”, “Chakbanaria”, “Chikka Benar”, and “Le Kef”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dar El Kous.
El Kef
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia and locality
- Location: Kef Governorate, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.1784° or 36° 10′ 42″ northLongitude
8.7073° or 8° 42′ 26″ eastPopulation
73,700Elevation
627 metres (2,057 feet)Open location code
8F8C5PH4+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 287622372OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2473634Wikidata ID
Q27155
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“El Kef” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكاف”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Кеф (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Кеф (места)”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Кеф (Туніс)”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Кеф”
- Catalan: “El Kef”
- Catalan: “Le Kef”
- Cebuano: “El Kef”
- Chinese: “卡夫”
- Chinese: “卡夫市”
- Danish: “El Kef”
- Dutch: “El Kef”
- Dutch: “Le Kef”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكاف”
- Esperanto: “El Kef”
- Finnish: “El Kef”
- French: “El Kef”
- French: “Le Kef”
- German: “Al-Kaf”
- German: “El Kef”
- German: “El-Kef”
- German: “Le Kef”
- Greek: “Αλ Καφ”
- Greek: “Ελ Κεφ”
- Greek: “Λε Κεφ”
- Hebrew: “אל-כאף”
- Hebrew: “אלכאף”
- Hungarian: “El Kef”
- Hungarian: “Kef”
- Italian: “Le Kef”
- Italian: “Sicca Veneria”
- Japanese: “エル・ケフ”
- Japanese: “ケフ (チュニジア)”
- Japanese: “ケフ”
- Kabyle: “Lkaf (Tunes)”
- Kabyle: “Lkaf”
- Korean: “엘케프”
- Latin: “Sicca”
- Lithuanian: “Kafas”
- Lithuanian: “Kefas”
- Malay: “El Kef”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Kef”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Kef”
- Persian: “الکاف”
- Polish: “Al-Kaf”
- Polish: “El Kef”
- Portuguese: “Al-Kāf”
- Portuguese: “El Kef”
- Portuguese: “Le Kef”
- Portuguese: “Sica Veneria”
- Portuguese: “Sicca Veneria”
- Romanian: “Al kaf”
- Romanian: “El Kef”
- Russian: “Аль-Каф”
- Russian: “Эль-Кеф”
- Scots: “El Kef”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Kef”
- Slovenian: “El Kef”
- Slovenian: “Le Kef”
- South Azerbaijani: “الکاف”
- Spanish: “Al Kaf”
- Spanish: “Al Kāf”
- Spanish: “Al-Kaf”
- Spanish: “Al-Kāf”
- Spanish: “El Kef”
- Spanish: “Kef”
- Swahili: “El Kef”
- Swedish: “El Kef”
- Thai: “เลอแก็ฟ”
- Thai: “อัลกาฟ”
- Turkish: “El Kâf”
- Turkish: “El-Kâf”
- Turkish: “Kâf”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Кеф”
- Urdu: “الکاف”
- Welsh: “El Kef”
- Welsh: “El-Kef”
- Welsh: “Le Kef”
- Welsh: “Sicca Veneria”
- Zulu: “El Kef”
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