Sfax Governorate
Sfax Ville
La Medina

Sfax

Sfax is on the east coast of , approximately midway on the highway between and the border with .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bab Gharbi and Bab El Kasbah.

City gate
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or the Western Gate in Arabic is one of the gates of the medina of Sfax. It is located in middle of the western front of the medina fence, next to Cheikh Mansour Hajr Rabat.

City gate
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is one of the gates of the Medina of Sfax, located in the west of its walls southern facade and gives access to its kasbah.

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or Bab Bhar is one of the gates of the medina of Sfax. It is located in the southern facade of the old city between on the western corner and Bab Borj Ennar on the east.

Sfax

Latitude
34.7394° or 34° 44′ 22″ north
Longitude
10.7604° or 10° 45′ 37″ east
Population
955,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
SFA
United Nations Location Code
TN SFA
Open location code
8F6GPQQ6+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287001619
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2467454
Wiki­data ID
Q46325
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Sfax” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Sfax”
  • Arabic: “بلدية صفاقس”
  • Arabic: “صفاقس”
  • Arabic: “مدينة صفاقس”
  • Aragonese: “Sfax”
  • Armenian: “Սֆաքս”
  • Asturian: “Sfax”
  • Bashkir: “Сфакс ҡалаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Сфакс”
  • Basque: “Safaqis”
  • Basque: “Sfaqis”
  • Basque: “Sfax”
  • Belarusian: “Сфакс (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Сфакс (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Сфакс (Туніс)”
  • Belarusian: “Сфакс”
  • Bengali: “সফেক্স”
  • Bengali: “সাফাকেস”
  • Breton: “Sfax”
  • Bulgarian: “Сфакс”
  • Catalan: “Sfax”
  • Cebuano: “Sfax (kapital sa lalawigan sa Tunisia)”
  • Cebuano: “Sfax”
  • Chinese: “斯法克斯”
  • Czech: “Sfax”
  • Danish: “Sfax”
  • Dutch: “Sfax”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صفاقس”
  • Esperanto: “Sfakso”
  • Estonian: “Safaqis”
  • Estonian: “Şafāqis”
  • Estonian: “Sfax”
  • Finnish: “Sfax”
  • French: “Picville”
  • French: “Sfax”
  • Galician: “Sfax”
  • Georgian: “საფაქსი”
  • Georgian: “სფაქსი”
  • German: “Safaqis”
  • German: “Sfax”
  • Greek: “Σφαξ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ફૅક્સ”
  • Hebrew: “ספאקס”
  • Hebrew: “ספכס”
  • Hebrew: “ספקס”
  • Hindi: “साक्स”
  • Hungarian: “Szfaksz”
  • Ido: “Sfax”
  • Indonesian: “Sfax”
  • Interlingue: “Sfax”
  • Irish: “Sfax”
  • Italian: “Safāqis”
  • Italian: “Sfax”
  • Japanese: “スファックス”
  • Kabyle: “Ṣfaqes”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಫಾಕ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “스팍스”
  • Latin: “Sfax”
  • Latin: “Thaenae”
  • Latvian: “Sfaksa”
  • Latvian: “Sfāksa”
  • Lithuanian: “Sfaksas”
  • Lombard: “Sfax”
  • Malay: “Sfax”
  • Maltese: “Sfax”
  • Marathi: “स्फाक्स”
  • Moksha: “Сфакс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sfax”
  • Norwegian: “Sfax”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sfax”
  • Ossetian: “Сфакс”
  • Persian: “صفاقس”
  • Polish: “Safakis”
  • Polish: “Sfax”
  • Portuguese: “Sfax”
  • Romanian: “Sfax”
  • Russian: “Сфакс”
  • Russian: “Сфвкс”
  • Scots: “Safaqis”
  • Scots: “Sfax”
  • Serbian: “Сфакс”
  • Serbian: “صفاقس”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sfax”
  • Sicilian: “Sfax”
  • Silesian: “Safakis”
  • Sinhala: “එස්ෆක්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Sfax”
  • Slovenian: “Sfax”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صفاقس”
  • Spanish: “Sfax”
  • Spanish: “Taparura”
  • Spanish: “Thaenae”
  • Swahili: “Sfax”
  • Swedish: “Safaqis”
  • Swedish: “Safāqis”
  • Swedish: “Sfaks”
  • Swedish: “Sfax”
  • Swedish: “Taparura”
  • Swedish: “Thaenae”
  • Tamil: “சுபாஸ்”
  • Telugu: “స్ఫాక్స్”
  • Thai: “Sfax”
  • Thai: “เศาะฟากิส”
  • Thai: “สฟักซ์”
  • Turkish: “Safakes”
  • Turkish: “Sefakus”
  • Turkish: “Sfakes”
  • Turkish: “Sfaks”
  • Ukrainian: “Сфакс”
  • Urdu: “صفاقس”
  • Uzbek: “Sfaks”
  • Vietnamese: “Sfax”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sfax”
  • Welsh: “Sfax”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯法克斯”
  • Zulu: “Sfax”

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