Nefta
Nefta is a city in the south of Tunisia, near the Algerian border. Many tourists will come to Nefta to visit nearby sites that can just as easily be visited from Tozeur, which has far more options in terms of hotels and restaurants.- Type: Town with 22,700 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Aggarset Nepte”, “Nafta”, “Nafţah”, “Nefta, Tunisia”, and “Netta”
Nefta
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia, residential area, and locality
- Location: Es-Seni, Nefta, Tozeur Governorate, Saharan Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
33.8757° or 33° 52′ 33″ north
Longitude
7.8798° or 7° 52′ 47″ east
Population
22,700
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TN NEA
Open location code
8F59VVGH+7W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Nefta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نفطة”
- Arabic: “نفطه”
- Catalan: “Nefta”
- Chinese: “内夫塔”
- Dutch: “Nafta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نفطه”
- French: “Nafta”
- French: “Nefta”
- German: “Nefta”
- Hebrew: “נפתא”
- Kazakh: “Nefta şuratı”
- Kazakh: “Нефта шұраты”
- Kazakh: “Нефта”
- Kazakh: “نەفتا شۇراتى”
- Persian: “نفطه (شهر)”
- Persian: “نفطه”
- Polish: “Nafta”
- Polish: “Nefta”
- Portuguese: “Nefta”
- Romanian: “Nafta”
- Romanian: “Nefta”
- Russian: “Нафта”
- Russian: “Нефта”
- Scots: “Nafta”
- Scots: “Nefta”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nefta, Tunis”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nefta”
- Swahili: “Nafta, Tunisia”
- Turkish: “Nefta”
- Ukrainian: “Нефта”
- Urdu: “نفطہ، تونس”
- Urdu: “نفطہ”
- Zulu: “Nefta, Thuniziya”
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