Central Coastal Tunisia
Gabès Governorate
Matmata

Matmata

Matmata is a village in the south of , famous for its troglodyte dwellings. Scenes from a number of Star Wars movies were filmed here.
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  • Type: Town with 2,410 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “Kalaa Matmata”, “Matmata el Qadima”, “Matmata, Tunisia”, and “Maţmāţah”
  • Postal code: 6070
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hotel Sidi Driss.

Hotel
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Matmata

Latitude
33.5457° or 33° 32′ 45″ north
Longitude
9.9671° or 9° 58′ 2″ east
Population
2,410
Elevation
378 metres (1,240 feet)
Open location code
8F5FGXW8+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262722264
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2463810
Wiki­data ID
Q338512
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Matmata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطماطة القديمة”
  • Arabic: “مطماطة”
  • Basque: “Matmata”
  • Bulgarian: “Матмата”
  • Catalan: “marta mata”
  • Catalan: “Matmat”
  • Catalan: “Matmata”
  • Cebuano: “Matmata”
  • Chinese: “马特马塔高原”
  • Czech: “Matmata”
  • Danish: “Matmata”
  • Dutch: “Matmata”
  • Esperanto: “Matmata”
  • Finnish: “Matmata”
  • French: “Matmata Ancienne”
  • French: “Matmata”
  • Galician: “Matmata”
  • German: “Matmata”
  • Hungarian: “Matmáta”
  • Italian: “Matmata”
  • Japanese: “マトマタ”
  • Korean: “마트마타”
  • Persian: “مطماطه”
  • Polish: “Matmata”
  • Portuguese: “Matmata”
  • Romanian: “Matmata”
  • Russian: “Матмата”
  • Slovenian: “Matmata”
  • Spanish: “Matmata”
  • Turkish: “Matmata”
  • Ukrainian: “Матмата”
  • Urdu: “متماتا، تیونس”
  • Zulu: “Matmata, Thuniziya”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Matmata”. Photo: Pratyeka, CC BY-SA 3.0.