La Marsa

La Marsa is a coastal city located in the northeastern part of Tunisia, situated along the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Tunis Governorate and has a population of around 100,000 people.
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  • Type: Town with 93,000 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “El Marsa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carthage and Tunisia Polytechnic School.

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was an ancient city in northern founded by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido on the eastern side of the in what is now .

University
Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, is a Engineering School. It was founded on June 26, 1991 by order of law N°91-42, and welcomed its first students in September 1994.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose in La Marsa, a northern suburb of , . It is the home ground of football club AS Marsa and has a capacity of 6,500 spectators.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sidi Bou Said and Gammarth.

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is a UNESCO World Heritage village in . The best time to visit is early autumn or spring, before the assault of package tourists begins, when you can still walk alone on the narrow streets, around white-blue traditional houses, enjoying the views.

Suburb
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is a town on the Mediterranean Sea in the of , located some 15 to 20 kilometres north of , adjacent to La Marsa. is situated 4 km northwest of La Marsa.

La Marsa

Latitude
36.8791° or 36° 52′ 45″ north
Longitude
10.3277° or 10° 19′ 40″ east
Population
93,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
TN TZE and TN L8T
Open location code
8F8GV8HH+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287547219
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2473540
Wiki­data ID
Q27230
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Satellite Map

Discover La Marsa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“La Marsa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المرسى Al Marsa”
  • Arabic: “المرسى”
  • Armenian: “Լա Մարսա”
  • Catalan: “La Marsa”
  • Cebuano: “Al Marsá”
  • Chinese: “拉馬爾薩”
  • Danish: “La Marsa”
  • Dutch: “La Marsa”
  • Finnish: “La Marsa”
  • French: “La Marsa”
  • German: “La Marsa”
  • Greek: “Λα Μαρσά”
  • Hebrew: “לה מרסה”
  • Hindi: “ला मरसा”
  • Hungarian: “el-Marsza”
  • Hungarian: “El-Marsza”
  • Italian: “La Marsa”
  • Japanese: “ラ・マルサ”
  • Japanese: “ラマルサ”
  • Korean: “라마르사”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Marsa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Marsa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Marsa”
  • Persian: “المرسی”
  • Polish: “Al-Marsa (Tunezja)”
  • Polish: “Al-Marsa”
  • Portuguese: “La Marsa”
  • Romanian: “La Marsa”
  • Russian: “Ла-Марса”
  • Russian: “Эль-Марса”
  • Scots: “La Marsa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Marsa”
  • Silesian: “La Marsa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “المرسی”
  • Spanish: “La Marsa”
  • Swahili: “La Marsa”
  • Swedish: “La Marsa”
  • Turkish: “El-Marsa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Марса”
  • Urdu: “المرسی”
  • Welsh: “La Marsa”
  • Zulu: “La Marsa”

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