Tunisia
Northern Tunisia
Kairouan

Kairouan

Kairouan, sometimes spelled Kairwan, Kayrawan or Al Qayrawan, is a city in . It's a holy city in Islam, ranking fourth after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem as a place of pilgrimage.
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  • Type: City with 139,000 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “Al Qayrawān”, “Al-Kayrawān”, “Al-Qayrawan”, “Kairwan”, “Kirwan”, “Qairouan”, and “Qairwan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mosque of the Three Doors and Carpet Museum.

Mosque
Photo: IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Mosque of Muhammad ibn Khairun is a mosque In the city of Kairouan, . Commissioned in 866, during the Aghlabid dynasty period, by Muhammad ibn Khairun, a private local patron.

Museum
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Mosque
Photo: IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a located in the of Kairouan, . Built around 1094 AH, it was constructed by Muradid bey Mohamed Bey for the Hanafi community of Kairouan during a conflict with his brother Ali Bey.

Kairouan

Latitude
35.671° or 35° 40′ 16″ north
Longitude
10.1006° or 10° 6′ 2″ east
Population
139,000
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
IATA airport code
QKN
United Nations Location Codes
TN AQR and TN QKN
Open location code
8F7GM4C2+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287543904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2473449
Wiki­data ID
Q179570
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Kairouan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Arabic: “القيرون”
  • Arabic: “قيروان”
  • Arabic: “مدينة القيروان”
  • Aragonese: “Kairouan”
  • Armenian: “Կայրուան”
  • Asturian: “Kairuán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Əl-Qeyrəvan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qeyrəvan”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡайраүән”
  • Basque: “Kairuan”
  • Belarusian: “Кайрўан (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Кайрўан (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Кайрўан (Туніс)”
  • Belarusian: “Кайруан”
  • Belarusian: “Кайрўан”
  • Bengali: “কাইরুয়ান”
  • Bengali: “কায়রুয়ান”
  • Bengali: “কায়রোয়ান”
  • Bosnian: “Kairuan”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайруан”
  • Catalan: “Al-Qayrawan”
  • Catalan: “Kairouan”
  • Catalan: “Kairuan”
  • Catalan: “Kayrawan”
  • Catalan: “Qayrawan”
  • Cebuano: “Kairouan (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kairouan”
  • Chinese: “凯鲁万”
  • Chinese: “凱魯萬”
  • Croatian: “Kairouan”
  • Croatian: “Kairuan”
  • Czech: “Kairouan”
  • Czech: “Kairuán”
  • Czech: “Kajruván”
  • Dagbani: “Kairouan”
  • Danish: “Kairouan”
  • Dutch: “Kairouan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Esperanto: “Kairuano”
  • Esperanto: “Kajruano”
  • Estonian: “Al-Qayrawan”
  • Estonian: “Al-Qayrawān”
  • Estonian: “Kairouan”
  • Finnish: “Al Qayrawan”
  • Finnish: “Al-Qairawân”
  • Finnish: “Kairouan”
  • Finnish: “Kairuan”
  • French: “Kairouan”
  • Galician: “Kairouan”
  • Galician: “Kairuan”
  • Galician: “Qairawan”
  • Georgian: “კაირუანი”
  • German: “Al-Qairawan”
  • German: “Al-Qayrawān”
  • German: “Kairouan”
  • German: “Kairowan”
  • German: “Kairuan”
  • German: “Qairawān”
  • Greek: “Αλ Καϊραουάν”
  • Greek: “Καϊραουάν”
  • Greek: “Καϊρουάν”
  • Gujarati: “કૈરૌન”
  • Hebrew: “קירואן”
  • Hindi: “कैरूआन”
  • Hindi: “कैरौआन”
  • Hungarian: “Kairuán”
  • Hungarian: “Kajraván”
  • Indonesian: “Al-Qairawan”
  • Indonesian: “Kairouan”
  • Irish: “Kairouan”
  • Italian: “Al-Qayrawan”
  • Italian: “Kairawan”
  • Italian: “Kairouan”
  • Italian: “Kairuan”
  • Italian: “Qayrawan”
  • Japanese: “カイラワーン”
  • Japanese: “カイラワン”
  • Japanese: “カイルアーン”
  • Japanese: “カイルアン”
  • Japanese: “ケルアン”
  • Kabyle: “Qayrawan”
  • Kabyle: “Takerwant”
  • Kannada: “ಕೈರೋವಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Kaýrwan (Kaïrvan, Kerwan) qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Кайруан (Каирван, Керуан) қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Кайруан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Қайруан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Қайруан”
  • Kazakh: “كايرۋان (كاىيرۆان، كەرۋان) قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайруан”
  • Korean: “카이로우안”
  • Korean: “카이로우완”
  • Korean: “카이루안”
  • Korean: “카이루완”
  • Korean: “카이르안”
  • Korean: “카이르완”
  • Latvian: “Kairavāna”
  • Latvian: “Kairuāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Kairuanas”
  • Malay: “Kairouan”
  • Maltese: “Kairouan”
  • Marathi: “केअरौआन”
  • Moksha: “Кайруан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “القيروان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kairouan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Qayrawan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al-Qayrawan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kairouan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kairwan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kayrawan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “القيروان”
  • Norwegian: “Kairouan”
  • Ossetian: “Кайруан”
  • Persian: “قیروان”
  • Polish: “Al-Kajrawan”
  • Polish: “Kairouan”
  • Polish: “Kairuan”
  • Polish: “Kajrowan”
  • Portuguese: “al-Qayrawan”
  • Portuguese: “Cairuão”
  • Portuguese: “Kairouan”
  • Romanian: “Kairouan”
  • Russian: “Каирван”
  • Russian: “Кайраан”
  • Russian: “Кайруан”
  • Russian: “Керуан”
  • Scots: “Kairouan”
  • Scots: “Kirwan”
  • Serbian: “Keruan”
  • Serbian: “Керуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Al-Qayrawan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kairouan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kairuan”
  • Sicilian: “Kairouan”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරොඋඅන්”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෝඋආන්”
  • Slovak: “Kajruván”
  • Slovenian: “Al Kairouan”
  • Slovenian: “Kairouan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیروان”
  • Spanish: “Cairuán”
  • Spanish: “Kairouan”
  • Spanish: “Kairuan”
  • Spanish: “Kairuán”
  • Spanish: “Qairawan”
  • Spanish: “Qayrawan”
  • Swahili: “Kairuan”
  • Swedish: “Al Qayrawan”
  • Swedish: “Kairouan”
  • Tamil: “கிரௌனா”
  • Tamil: “கைரோயன்”
  • Telugu: “కేరోయువాన్”
  • Thai: “อัลก็อยเราะวาน”
  • Turkish: “Al Qayrawan”
  • Turkish: “Kairouan”
  • Turkish: “Kayravan”
  • Turkish: “Kayrevan”
  • Uighur: “قەيرەۋان”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайруан”
  • Urdu: “قیروان”
  • Uzbek: “Qayravon”
  • Uzbek: “Qayruvon”
  • Vietnamese: “Kairouan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kairouan”
  • Welsh: “Kairouan”
  • Western Panjabi: “قیروان”
  • Wu Chinese: “凯鲁万”
  • Zulu: “Kairouan”

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