Tunis

Tunis is the capital of . There are quite a few must-see attractions, especially if you include the ruins of , which are easily accessed from here, and the Punic ports are interesting, too.
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  • City with 728,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 23 metres (75 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code TUN
  • …is also known as “Tunis-Ville”
  • Description: capital of Tunisia
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul and Bab el Bhar.

Church
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The Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul is a Roman Catholic church located in Tunis, Tunisia.

City gate
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, also known as Porte De France, is a gate…

Mosque
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Hammouda Bay Mosque or Hamouda Bay al Mouradi is a in Tunis, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medina of Tunis and Lafayette.

Suburb
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The is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of .

Suburb
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is the central district of Tunis, the…

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Tunis

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Latitude
36.8002° or 36° 48′ 1″ north
Longitude
10.1858° or 10° 11′ 9″ east
UN/LOCODE
TN TUN
Open location code
8F8GR52P+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27564968
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2464470
Wiki­data ID
Q3572

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Tunis” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tunis”
  • Adyghe: “Тунис”
  • Afrikaans: “Tunis”
  • Albanian: “Tunis”
  • Albanian: “Tuniz”
  • Albanian: “Tunizia”
  • Algerian Arabic: “تونس”
  • Amharic: “ቱኒስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τύνης”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τύνις”
  • Arabic: “تونس العاصمة”
  • Arabic: “تونس”
  • Arabic: “مدينة تونس”
  • Aragonese: “Túniz”
  • Armenian: “Թունիս”
  • Arpitan: “Tunis”
  • Arpitan: “Tunisso”
  • Asturian: “Túnez”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tunis”
  • Balinese: “Tunis”
  • Bashkir: “Тунис”
  • Basque: “Tunis”
  • Belarusian: “Туніс (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Туніс”
  • Bengali: “তিউনিস”
  • Bosnian: “Tunis”
  • Breton: “Tuniz”
  • Bulgarian: “Тунис”
  • Burmese: “တူနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Tunis”
  • Catalan: “Tunísia”
  • Cebuano: “Tunis (ulohang dakbayan sa Tunisia)”
  • Cebuano: “Tunis”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tunis”
  • Central Kurdish: “توونس”
  • Chechen: “Тунис”
  • Chinese: “突尼斯”
  • Chinese: “突尼斯市”
  • Chuvash: “Тунис”
  • Corsican: “Tunisi”
  • Croatian: “Tunis”
  • Czech: “Tunis”
  • Dagbani: “Tunis”
  • Danish: “Tunis”
  • Dutch: “Tunis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تونس”
  • Erzya: “Тунис (ош)”
  • Erzya: “Тунис”
  • Esperanto: “Tunizo”
  • Estonian: “Tunis”
  • Ewe: “Tunis”
  • Extremaduran: “Túnis”
  • Fanti: “Tunis”
  • Farefare: “Tunis”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tunis”
  • Finnish: “Tunis”
  • French: “Tunis”
  • Ga: “Tunis”
  • Galician: “Tunes”
  • Georgian: “ტუნისი”
  • German: “Tunis”
  • Greek: “Τύνιδα”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્યૂનિસ”
  • Haitian: “Tinis”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tunis”
  • Hausa: “Tunis”
  • Hebrew: “תוניס”
  • Hindi: “ट्यूनिस”
  • Hindi: “तूनिस”
  • Hungarian: “Tunisz”
  • Icelandic: “Túnis”
  • Ido: “Tunis”
  • Igbo: “Tunis”
  • Inari Sami: “Tunis”
  • Indonesian: “Tunis”
  • Interlingua: “Tunis”
  • Interlingue: “Tunis”
  • Irish: “Túinis”
  • Italian: “Tunisi”
  • Japanese: “チュニス”
  • Javanese: “Tunis”
  • Kabiyè: “Tunisi”
  • Kabyle: “Tunes tamaneɣt”
  • Kabyle: “Tunes”
  • Kalmyk: “Тунисин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಟುನೀಶಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ಯುನಿಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тунис (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Тунис қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тунис”
  • Kirghiz: “Тунис шаары”
  • Komering: “Tunis”
  • Kongo: “Tunis”
  • Korean: “뜌니스”
  • Korean: “튀니스”
  • Kotava: “Tunus”
  • Kurdish: “Tûnis”
  • Kusaal: “Tunis”
  • Latin: “Tunes”
  • Latin: “Tunis”
  • Latvian: “Tunisa”
  • Ligurian: “Tùnixi”
  • Lithuanian: “Tunisas”
  • Lombard: “Tünis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tunis”
  • Macedonian: “Тунис”
  • Malagasy: “Tunis”
  • Malay: “Tunis”
  • Malay: “تونس”
  • Malayalam: “ടൂണിസ്സ്”
  • Maltese: “Tuneż”
  • Marathi: “ट्युनिस”
  • Mazanderani: “تونس (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “تونس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tunis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tunis”
  • Minangkabau: “Tunis”
  • Mingrelian: “ტუნისი”
  • Moksha: “Тунис”
  • Mongolian: “Тунис хот”
  • Mongolian: “Тунис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تونس لعاصمة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تونس”
  • Mossi: “Tunis”
  • Nepali: “ट्युनिस”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Tunis”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tunis”
  • Northern Sami: “Tunis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tunis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tunis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tunisia”
  • Norwegian: “Tunis”
  • Norwegian: “Tunisia”
  • Novial: “Tunis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tunis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tunisia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܘܢܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tūnisburh”
  • Ossetian: “Тунис”
  • Paiwan: “tunis”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੂਨਿਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Tunis”
  • Persian: “تونس”
  • Persian: “شهر تونس”
  • Picard: “Tunis”
  • Piemontese: “Tùnis”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tunis”
  • Polish: “Tunis”
  • Portuguese: “Tunes”
  • Portuguese: “Túnis”
  • Pushto: “تونس ښار”
  • Pushto: “تونس”
  • Quechua: “Tunis”
  • Romanian: “Tunis”
  • Romanian: “Tunisia”
  • Russian: “Тунис”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱩᱱᱤᱥ”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱭᱩᱱᱤᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Tùnisi”
  • Scots: “Tunis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tunis”
  • Serbian: “Tunis”
  • Serbian: “Тунис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tunis”
  • Shona: “Tunis”
  • Sicilian: “Tùnisi”
  • Silesian: “Tůńis”
  • Sindhi: “تيونس شهر”
  • Sinhala: “ටියුනිස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tunis”
  • Slovak: “Tunis”
  • Slovenian: “Tunis”
  • Somali: “Tunis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تونس (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تونس”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Tunis”
  • Spanish: “Tunez”
  • Spanish: “Túnez”
  • Swahili: “Tunis”
  • Swedish: “Tunis”
  • Swiss German: “Tunis”
  • Tagalog: “Tunis”
  • Tajik: “Тунис”
  • Talysh: “Tunis”
  • Tamil: “டுனிஸ்”
  • Tamil: “டூநீஸ்”
  • Tamil: “தூனிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Тунис (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Тунис”
  • Telugu: “ట్యూనిస్”
  • Thai: “ตูนิส”
  • Tibetan: “ཊུ་ནིསི།”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تونس”
  • Turkish: “Tunus”
  • Turkmen: “Tunis”
  • Twi: “Tunis”
  • Udmurt: “Тунис”
  • Uighur: “تۇنىس شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Туніс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tunis”
  • Urdu: “تونس شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Tunis”
  • Venetian: “Túnixi”
  • Venetian: “Túnizi”
  • Veps: “Tunis”
  • Vietnamese: “Tunis”
  • Volapük: “Tunis”
  • Walloon: “Tunisse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tunis”
  • Welsh: “Tiwnis”
  • Welsh: “Tunisia”
  • Western Armenian: “Թունուզ”
  • Western Frisian: “Tunis”
  • Western Mari: “Тунис”
  • Western Panjabi: “تونس (شہر)”
  • Western Panjabi: “تونس”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹیونس نگر”
  • Wolof: “Tunis”
  • Wu Chinese: “突尼斯市”
  • Yakut: “Тунис”
  • Yiddish: “טוניס”
  • Yoruba: “Tunis”
  • Yue Chinese: “突尼斯”
  • Zulu: “i-Tunis”
  • Zulu: “Tunis”

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