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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Youssefbensaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 93,000 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “El Marsa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carthage and Abdelaziz Chtioui Stadium.
Carthage
Photo: Saratanit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world.
Abdelaziz Chtioui Stadium
Stadium
Abdelaziz Chtioui Stadium is a football stadium in La Marsa, Tunisia. It is currently used by football team Avenir Sportif de La Marsa. The stadium holds 6,500 people.
Tunisia Polytechnic School
University
Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, is a Tunisian Engineering School. It was founded on June 26, 1991 by order of law N°91-42, and welcomed its first students in September 1994.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sidi Bou Said and Gammarth.
Sidi Bou Said
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sidi Bou Said is a village in Tunisia. 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.
Gammarth
Suburb
Photo: Citizen59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gammarth is a town on the Mediterranean Sea in the Tunis Governorate of Tunisia, located some 15 to 20 kilometres north of Tunis, adjacent to La Marsa. Gammarth is situated 4 km northwest of La Marsa.
La Marsa
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia, imada, and locality
- Location: La Marsa, Tunis Governorate, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
36.8791° or 36° 52′ 45″ northLongitude
10.3277° or 10° 19′ 40″ eastPopulation
93,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 287547219OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Swedish: “La Marsa”
- Turkish: “El-Marsa”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Марса”
- Urdu: “المرسی”
- Welsh: “La Marsa”
- Zulu: “La Marsa”
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