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.
- Type: City with 73,700 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Al kaf”, “Al Kaf”, “Al Kāf”, “Al-Kaf”, “Chakbanaria”, “Chikka Benar”, “El-Kef”, “Kâf”, “Kefas”, “Sica Veneria”, “Sicca Veneria”, “Λε Κεφ”, “Аль-Каф”, “Эль-Кеф (горад)”, “Эль-Кеф (места)”, “Эль-Кеф (Туніс)”, “เลอแก็ฟ”, and “エル・ケフ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: 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″ north
Longitude
8.7073° or 8° 42′ 26″ east
Population
73,700
Elevation
627 metres (2,057 feet)
Open location code
8F8C5PH4+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“El Kef” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኤል ኬፍ”
- Arabic: “الكاف”
- Azerbaijani: “El Kef”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Кеф”
- Bengali: “এল কেফ”
- Catalan: “El Kef”
- Cebuano: “El Kef”
- Chinese: “卡夫”
- Chinese: “卡夫市”
- Danish: “El Kef”
- Dutch: “El Kef”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكاف”
- Esperanto: “El Kef”
- Finnish: “El Kef”
- French: “Le Kef”
- German: “Al-Kaf”
- German: “El Kef”
- Greek: “Αλ Καφ”
- Greek: “Ελ Κεφ”
- Hausa: “El Kef”
- Hebrew: “אל-כאף”
- Hebrew: “אלכאף”
- Hindi: “एल केफ”
- Hindi: “एल केफ़”
- Hungarian: “Kef”
- Indonesian: “El Kef”
- Italian: “Le Kef”
- Japanese: “エルケフ”
- Japanese: “ケフ (チュニジア)”
- Japanese: “ケフ”
- Javanese: “El Kef”
- Kabyle: “Lkaf (Tunes)”
- Kabyle: “Lkaf”
- Kazakh: “Эль-Кеф”
- Kirghiz: “Эль-Кеф”
- Korean: “엘케프”
- Latin: “Sicca”
- Lithuanian: “Kafas”
- Malay: “El Kef”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Kef”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Kef”
- Oromo: “El Kef”
- Panjabi: “ਐਲ ਕੇਫ”
- Persian: “الکاف”
- Polish: “Al-Kaf”
- Portuguese: “El Kef”
- Pushto: “الکاف”
- Romanian: “El Kef”
- Russian: “Эль-Кеф”
- Scots: “El Kef”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Kef”
- Slovenian: “El Kef”
- Somali: “El Kef”
- South Azerbaijani: “الکاف”
- Spanish: “Al-Kāf”
- Spanish: “El Kef”
- Swahili: “El Kef”
- Swedish: “El Kef”
- Tajik: “Эль-Кеф”
- Tatar: “El Kef”
- Thai: “อัลกาฟ”
- Turkish: “El Kâf”
- Turkish: “El Kef”
- Turkish: “El-Kâf”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Кеф”
- Urdu: “الکاف”
- Uzbek: “El Kef”
- Welsh: “El Kef”
- Zulu: “El Kef”
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