Tabarka
Tabarka is a coastal town located in north-western Tunisia in the Jendouba Governorate, close to the border with Algeria. Tabarka was occupied at various times by Punics, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Genoese and Ottomans.- Type: Town with 19,800 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Also known as: “Cabraca”, “Mint of Thabraca”, “Tabarqa”, “Ţabarqah”, “Tabarque”, and “Tabraca”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tabarka Lighthouse.
Tabarka
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia, imada, and locality
- Location: Tabarka, Jendouba Governorate, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
36.9546° or 36° 57′ 16″ north
Longitude
8.7574° or 8° 45′ 27″ east
Population
19,800
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
TBJ
UN/LOCODE
TN TBJ
Open location code
8F8CXQ34+RX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Tabarka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “طبرقة”
- Asturian: “Tabarka”
- Basque: “Tabarka”
- Catalan: “Tabarka”
- Cebuano: “Tabarka”
- Chinese: “塔巴卡”
- Chinese: “泰拜尔盖”
- Czech: “Tabarka”
- Danish: “Tabarka”
- Dutch: “Tabarka”
- Esperanto: “Tabarka”
- Finnish: “Tabarka”
- French: “Tabarka”
- German: “Tabarca”
- Greek: “Θαύβρακα”
- Hebrew: “טברקה”
- Hindi: “तबरक़ा”
- Italian: “Tabarca”
- Italian: “Tabarka”
- Japanese: “タバルカ”
- Kabyle: “Tabarka”
- Korean: “타바르카”
- Latin: “Thabraca”
- Ligurian: “Tabòrka”
- Persian: “طبرقه”
- Polish: “Tabarka”
- Portuguese: “Tabarca”
- Portuguese: “Tabarka”
- Romanian: “Tabarka”
- Russian: “Табарка”
- South Azerbaijani: “طبرقه”
- Spanish: “Tabarka”
- Swahili: “Tabarka”
- Swedish: “Tabarka”
- Turkish: “Tabarka”
- Ukrainian: “Табарка”
- Urdu: “طبرقہ”
- Zulu: “Tabarka”
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