Monastir

Monastir is a city in 160 km from . Set along a superb coastline with a blue sea and long golden sandy beaches, Monastir is a pleasant seaside resort, a historical town full of tradition and one of the best tourist destinations in Northern Africa.
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  • Type: City with 105,000 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “Al Munastīr”, “Al-Monastir”, “Al-Munastir”, “El Menstir”, “Hadrumetum”, “Mīstīr”, “Monastir Tunez”, “Monastir Túnez”, “Monastir, Tunisia”, “Ruspina”, “Μοναστήρι”, “Μοναστίρ Τυνησία”, “Аль-Манастыр”, “מונאסטיר”, “מונסטיר”, “المـنسـتير”, “มอนัสตีร์”, and “莫纳斯蒂尔”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Mustapha Ben Jennet Stadium and Ribat of Monastir.

Stadium
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Mustapha Ben Jannet Stadium is a multi-use in Monastir, .

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The is a ribat, an Islamic defensive structure, in Monastir, Tunisia.

Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is a historical located in Monastir, .

Monastir

Latitude
35.7708° or 35° 46′ 15″ north
Longitude
10.8281° or 10° 49′ 41″ east
Population
105,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
MIR
UN/LOCODE
TN MIR
Open location code
8F7GQRCH+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287553320
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2473493
Wiki­data ID
Q208715
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Zulu—“Monastir” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሞናስቲር”
  • Arabic: “المنستير”
  • Arabic: “منستير”
  • Aragonese: “Monastir (Tunicia)”
  • Aragonese: “Monastir”
  • Armenian: “Մոնաստիր”
  • Asturian: “Monastir”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monastır”
  • Bashkir: “Монастир”
  • Basque: “Monastir”
  • Belarusian: “Манастыр”
  • Belarusian: “Манасцір”
  • Bengali: “মোনাস্টির”
  • Bengali: “মোনাস্তির”
  • Bulgarian: “Монастир”
  • Catalan: “Monastir”
  • Cebuano: “Monastir”
  • Chinese: “莫納斯提爾”
  • Chinese: “莫纳斯提尔”
  • Czech: “Monastir”
  • Danish: “Monastir”
  • Dutch: “Monastir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المنستير”
  • Esperanto: “Monastir”
  • Finnish: “Monastir”
  • French: “Monastir”
  • Galician: “Monastir”
  • Georgian: “მონასტირი”
  • German: “Monastir”
  • Greek: “Μοναστίρ”
  • Gujarati: “મોનાસ્ટિર”
  • Hausa: “Monastir”
  • Hebrew: “מונסתיר”
  • Hindi: “मोनास्टिर”
  • Hindi: “मोनास्तीर”
  • Hungarian: “Monasztir”
  • Indonesian: “Monastir, Tunisia”
  • Indonesian: “Monastir”
  • Italian: “Monastir”
  • Japanese: “モナスティル”
  • Javanese: “Monastir”
  • Kabyle: “Munastir”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊನಾಸ್ಟೀರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Монастыр”
  • Kirghiz: “Монастыр”
  • Korean: “모나스티르”
  • Latvian: “Monastīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Monastyras”
  • Macedonian: “Монастир”
  • Malay: “Monastir, Tunisia”
  • Malay: “Monastir”
  • Marathi: “मोनास्टीर”
  • Moksha: “Монастир (Тунисия)”
  • Moksha: “Монастир”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمنستير”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monastir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monastir”
  • Norwegian: “Monastir”
  • Oromo: “Monastir”
  • Ossetian: “Монастир”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਨਾਸਤੀਰ”
  • Persian: “المنستیر”
  • Polish: “Monastyr”
  • Portuguese: “Monastir (Tunísia)”
  • Portuguese: “Monastir”
  • Pushto: “منستیر”
  • Romanian: “Monastir, Tunisia”
  • Romanian: “Monastir”
  • Russian: “Монастир”
  • Scots: “Monastir, Tunisie”
  • Scots: “Monastir”
  • Serbian: “Monastir”
  • Serbian: “Монастир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monastir”
  • Sinhala: “මොනස්ටර්”
  • Slovenian: “Monastir”
  • Somali: “Monastir”
  • South Azerbaijani: “المنستیر”
  • Spanish: “Monastir”
  • Swahili: “Monastir, Tunisia”
  • Swahili: “Monastir”
  • Swedish: “Monastir”
  • Tajik: “Монастир”
  • Tamil: “மோனஸ்ட்டிற்”
  • Tatar: “Monastir”
  • Telugu: “మొనస్టీర్”
  • Thai: “อัลมุนัสตีร”
  • Turkish: “Munastır”
  • Turkish: “Münestir”
  • Ukrainian: “Монастір”
  • Urdu: “منستیر، تونس”
  • Urdu: “منستیر، تیونس”
  • Uzbek: “Monastir”
  • Vietnamese: “Monastir”
  • Welsh: “Monastir”
  • Zulu: “Monastir, Thuniziya”

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