Tunisia
Northern Tunisia
Tunis Governorate

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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  • Type: City with 728,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Tunisia
  • Also known as: “Tunis-Ville”
Photo: TAKOUTI hayfa, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

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

Church
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul is a Roman Catholic church located in Tunis, . The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul, patron saint of charity.

City gate
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as Porte De France, is a gate on the east side of the of Tunis, the capital of . It marks the separation between the medina and the modern city.

Theater building
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0.
The in , Built in the Art Nouveau style on Avenue Jules-Ferry, was first opened on November 20, 1902 and currently showcases opera, ballet, symphonic concerts and dramas featuring numerous Tunisian, Arab and international actors.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medina of Tunis and Lafayette.

Suburb
Photo: Raspail, Public domain.
The is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of . It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. The Medina contains some 700 monuments, including palaces, , mausoleums, madrasas and fountains dating from various periods.

Suburb
Photo: Youssefbensaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the central district of Tunis, the capital of , which occupies the area north of Avenue Habib Bourguiba between Bab el Khadra on the west and Avenue Mohammed V on the east.

Suburb
Photo: DrFO.Jr.Tn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Tunis

Latitude
36.8002° or 36° 48′ 1″ north
Longitude
10.1858° or 10° 11′ 9″ east
Population
728,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
IATA airport code
TUN
United Nations Location Code
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: “Tunis”
  • 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: “टूनिस”
  • 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”
  • 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 şəhər”
  • Talysh: “Tunis”
  • Tamil: “டுனிஸ்”
  • Tamil: “டூநீஸ்”
  • Tamil: “தூனிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Тунис (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Тунис”
  • Telugu: “ట్యూనిస్”
  • Thai: “ตูนิส”
  • Tibetan: “ཊུ་ནིསི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tunis”
  • 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 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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