Sousse Governorate
Sousse Medina
El Medina

Sousse

Sousse is one of the older cities in , possessing an authentic medina, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: City with 222,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tunisia
  • Also known as: “Sousa”, “Souse”, “Soussa”, “Sūsah”, and “昔兰尼”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sousse Archeological Museum and Faculty of Medicine of Sousse.

Museum
Photo: Yamen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sousse Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum located in Sousse, , .

University
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or FMS, is a university establishment created according to the law N°74-83 of December 11, 1974. Part of the University of Sousse.

Church
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Sousse

Latitude
35.8288° or 35° 49′ 44″ north
Longitude
10.6405° or 10° 38′ 26″ east
Population
222,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
QSO
United Nations Location Code
TN SUS
Open location code
8F7GRJHR+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287543373
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2464915
Wiki­data ID
Q180717
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Sousse” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سوسة (تونس)”
  • Arabic: “سوسة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة سوسة العتيقة”
  • Aragonese: “Sousse”
  • Armenian: “Սուս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sus”
  • Bashkir: “Сүс”
  • Bashkir: “Сүсәһ”
  • Basque: “Susa”
  • Belarusian: “Сус”
  • Bengali: “সোসে”
  • Breton: “Sousse”
  • Bulgarian: “Сус”
  • Catalan: “Hunericòpolis”
  • Catalan: “Sousse”
  • Catalan: “Sussa”
  • Cebuano: “Soussa”
  • Cebuano: “Sousse”
  • Chinese: “苏塞”
  • Chinese: “苏斯”
  • Chinese: “苏斯市”
  • Chinese: “苏萨”
  • Chinese: “蘇塞”
  • Corsican: “Susa”
  • Croatian: “Sousse”
  • Croatian: “Susa, Tunis”
  • Croatian: “Susa”
  • Czech: “Sousse”
  • Czech: “Sús”
  • Czech: “Súsa”
  • Danish: “Sousse”
  • Dutch: “Soesa”
  • Dutch: “Sousse”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوسه”
  • Esperanto: “Sousse”
  • Esperanto: “Suso”
  • Estonian: “Sousse”
  • Estonian: “Susah”
  • Estonian: “Sūsah”
  • Finnish: “Sousse”
  • Finnish: “Suse”
  • French: “Sousse”
  • Galician: “Sousse”
  • Georgian: “სუსი”
  • German: “Hadrumete”
  • German: “Hadrumetum”
  • German: “Hunerikopolis”
  • German: “Sousse”
  • Greek: “Σους”
  • Greek: “Σούσα”
  • Gujarati: “સોસ”
  • Hebrew: “הדרומטום”
  • Hebrew: “סוסה”
  • Hindi: “सोस”
  • Hungarian: “Szúsza”
  • Ido: “Sousse”
  • Indonesian: “Sousse”
  • Interlingue: “Sousse”
  • Irish: “Sousse”
  • Italian: “Hadrumetum”
  • Italian: “Sousse”
  • Italian: “Susa”
  • Japanese: “スース”
  • Japanese: “スース旧市街”
  • Kabyle: “Susa”
  • Kannada: “ಸೌಸ್”
  • Korean: “수스”
  • Latin: “Hadrumetum”
  • Latin: “Susa”
  • Latvian: “Susa”
  • Latvian: “Sūsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Susas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sūsas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sousse”
  • Malay: “Sousse”
  • Maltese: “Sousse”
  • Marathi: “सॉस”
  • Moksha: “Сус”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sousse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sousse”
  • Norwegian: “Sousse”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sussa”
  • Ossetian: “Сус”
  • Persian: “سوسه”
  • Picard: “Sousse”
  • Polish: “Adrumetum”
  • Polish: “Hadrumetum”
  • Polish: “Sousse”
  • Polish: “Susa”
  • Portuguese: “Sousse”
  • Portuguese: “Susa”
  • Romanian: “Sousse”
  • Russian: “Адрумет”
  • Russian: “Гадрумет”
  • Russian: “Сус”
  • Russian: “Сусс”
  • Scots: “Sousse”
  • Serbian: “Sus”
  • Serbian: “Сус(град)”
  • Serbian: “Сус”
  • Serbian: “سوسة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sousse”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sus”
  • Sicilian: “Susa”
  • Silesian: “Susa (Tůnezyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Susa”
  • Sinhala: “සෞස්සේ”
  • Slovak: “Súsa”
  • Slovenian: “Sousse”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوسه”
  • Spanish: “Hadrumeto”
  • Spanish: “Hadrumetum”
  • Spanish: “Sousse”
  • Spanish: “Susa”
  • Swahili: “Sousse”
  • Swedish: “El Kantaoui”
  • Swedish: “Sousse”
  • Tamil: “சௌஸ்ஸே”
  • Telugu: “సౌసీ”
  • Thai: “ซุส”
  • Thai: “ซูซะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Sousse”
  • Turkish: “Susa, Tunus”
  • Turkish: “Sûsa, Tunus”
  • Turkish: “Suse”
  • Ukrainian: “Гадрумент”
  • Ukrainian: “Гадрумет”
  • Ukrainian: “Сус”
  • Ukrainian: “Суса”
  • Ukrainian: “Сусс”
  • Ukrainian: “Хунеріка”
  • Ukrainian: “Хунерікополь”
  • Ukrainian: “Юстиніанополь”
  • Urdu: “سوسہ”
  • Uzbek: “Sus”
  • Vietnamese: “Sousse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sousse”
  • Welsh: “Sousse”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏塞”
  • Zulu: “Sousse”

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