Africa
North Africa

Tunisia

The Republic of Tunisia, is a country in bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Tourist infrastructure is well developed, and there are several ways to enjoy the loveliness of Tunisia, including spending time on the gorgeous Mediterranean beaches, viewing its ancient ruins, living its thriving desert culture, or sampling its delicious cuisine.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tunis and Carthage.

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is the capital of Tunisia. 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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was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the in what is now Tunisia. was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world.

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is one of the older cities in Tunisia, possessing an authentic medina, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northern Tunisia and Central Coastal Tunisia.

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is an area in Tunisia.

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is an area of Tunisia.

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is the southern and western area of Tunisia which consists mostly of desert.

Tunisia

Latitude of center
33.98° or 33° 58′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
9.6° or 9° 36′ east
Population
10,300,000
Area
163,610 km² (63,170 miles²)
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dinar (TND)
Phone code
.tn
Internet domain
216
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2464461
Wiki­data ID
Q948
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tunisia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Тунис”
  • Achinese: “Tunisia”
  • Adyghe: “Тунис”
  • Afrikaans: “Tunisië”
  • Akan: “Tunihyia”
  • Albanian: “Tunisi”
  • Albanian: “Tunizi”
  • Albanian: “Tunizia”
  • Algerian Arabic: “تونس”
  • Amharic: “ቱኒዚያ”
  • Amis: “Tunisia”
  • Angika: “ट्यूनीशिया”
  • Arabic: “الجمهورية التونسية”
  • Arabic: “تونس الخضراء”
  • Arabic: “تونس”
  • Arabic: “تُوْنُس”
  • Arabic: “تُوْنِس”
  • Aragonese: “Tunicia”
  • Armenian: “Թունիս”
  • Arpitan: “Tunisia”
  • Arpitan: “Tunisie”
  • Assamese: “টুনিচিয়া”
  • Assamese: “তুনিছিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Túnez”
  • Asturian: “Tunicia”
  • Atayal: “Tunisia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tunis”
  • Balinese: “Tunisia”
  • Bambara: “Tunizi”
  • Banjar: “Tunisia”
  • Bashkir: “Тунис”
  • Basque: “Tunisia”
  • Bavarian: “Tunesien”
  • Belarusian: “Туніс”
  • Bengali: “তিউনিসিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Tunis”
  • Bhojpuri: “ट्यूनीशिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “তিউনিসিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Tunisia”
  • Bosnian: “Republika Tunis”
  • Bosnian: “Tunis”
  • Breton: “Tunizia”
  • Buginese: “Tounes”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨚᨕᨘᨊᨙᨔ”
  • Bulgarian: “Тунис”
  • Burmese: “တူနီးရှား”
  • Burmese: “တူနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República de Tunísia”
  • Catalan: “Tunísia”
  • Cebuano: “Tunisia”
  • Central Bikol: “Tunisya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tunisia”
  • Central Kurdish: “توونس”
  • Chavacano: “Túnez”
  • Chechen: “Тунис”
  • Chinese: “Tunisia”
  • Chinese: “Tūníxīyà”
  • Chinese: “突尼斯 / 突尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “突尼斯”
  • Chinese: “突尼斯共和国”
  • Chinese: “突尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “突尼西亞共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Тунис”
  • Cornish: “Tunisi”
  • Corsican: “Republica di Tunisia”
  • Corsican: “Republica Tunisina”
  • Corsican: “Tunisia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tunis”
  • Croatian: “Tunis”
  • Czech: “Tunisko”
  • Dagbani: “Tunisia”
  • Danish: “Republikken Tunesien”
  • Danish: “Tunesien”
  • Danish: “Tunis”
  • Dhivehi: “ތޫނިސް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tunıs”
  • Dotyali: “ट्युनिसिया”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Tunesië”
  • Dutch: “TN”
  • Dutch: “TUN”
  • Dutch: “Tunesie”
  • Dutch: “Tunesië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཊུ་ནི་ཤི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тунис”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تونس”
  • Erzya: “Тунис”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Tunizio”
  • Esperanto: “TN”
  • Esperanto: “Tunizio”
  • Estonian: “Tuneesia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Tuneesia”
  • Ewe: “Tunisia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Tunisia”
  • Extremaduran: “Túnis”
  • Faroese: “Tunesia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tunisia”
  • Finnish: “Tunisia”
  • Finnish: “Tunisian tasavalta”
  • French: “République tunisienne”
  • French: “TN”
  • French: “Tun.”
  • French: “Tunisie”
  • Fulah: “Tuniisi”
  • Fulah: “Tunisii”
  • Gagauz: “Tunis”
  • Galician: “Tunisia”
  • Ganda: “Tunisia”
  • Ganda: “Tunisya”
  • Georgian: “ტუნისი”
  • German: “TN”
  • German: “Tunesien”
  • German: “Tunesische Republik”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Tunisia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tunisia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tunisian Republic”
  • Gilaki: “تۊنس”
  • Goan Konkani: “ट्युनिशिया”
  • Gorontalo: “Tunisia”
  • Greek: “Τυνησία”
  • Guarani: “Tunísia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tinizi”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્યુનિશિયા”
  • Haitian: “Tinizi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tunisia”
  • Hausa: “Tunisiya”
  • Hawaiian: “Tunisia”
  • Hebrew: “הרפובליקה התוניסאית”
  • Hebrew: “טוניס”
  • Hebrew: “טוניסיה”
  • Hebrew: “תוניסיה”
  • Hindi: “टुनिशिया”
  • Hindi: “ट्यूनिशिया”
  • Hindi: “ट्यूनीशिया”
  • Hindi: “ट्यूनीसिया”
  • Hindi: “तुनिशिया”
  • Hindi: “तूनिसीया”
  • Hungarian: “Tunézia”
  • Hungarian: “Tunéziai Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Tunisz”
  • Iban: “Tunisia”
  • Icelandic: “Túnis”
  • Ido: “Tunizia”
  • Igbo: “Tunisia”
  • Iloko: “Tunisia”
  • Inari Sami: “Tunisia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Tunisia”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Tunisia”
  • Indonesian: “Tunis”
  • Indonesian: “Tunisia”
  • Interlingua: “Tunisia”
  • Interlingue: “Tunisia”
  • Irish: “an Túinéis”
  • Irish: “An Túinéis”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Tunisina”
  • Italian: “Tunisia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tunisia”
  • Japanese: “チュニジア”
  • Japanese: “チュニジア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Tunis”
  • Javanese: “Tunisia”
  • Kabiyè: “Tuniizii”
  • Kabyle: “Tunes”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Republik Tunisia”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tunis”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tunisia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tunisia”
  • Kannada: “ಟುನೀಶಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “TUN”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tunis Respublikası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tunis”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Тунис Республикасы”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Тунис”
  • Kashmiri: “تنوسیا”
  • Kashmiri: “تونس”
  • Kashmiri: “ٹونیشِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “टुनिशिया”
  • Kashubian: “Tunezjô”
  • Kashubian: “Tunicia”
  • Kazakh: “Тунис”
  • Khmer: “ទុយនីស៊ី”
  • Khmer: “ទុយនេស៊ី”
  • Kikuyu: “Tunisia”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tonis”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tunes”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tunisiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Тунис”
  • Komering: “Tunisia”
  • Kongo: “Tunisia”
  • Korean: “뜌니지”
  • Korean: “튀니지”
  • Kotava: “Tunusa”
  • Kurdish: “Tûnis”
  • Ladin: “Tunisia”
  • Ladino: “Tunesia”
  • Lao: “ຕູນິເຊຍ”
  • Latin: “Tunesia”
  • Latvian: “Tunisija”
  • Lezghian: “Тунис”
  • Ligurian: “Tunixia”
  • Limburgan: “Tunesië”
  • Lingala: “Tinizi”
  • Lingala: “Tunisia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tunis”
  • Literary Chinese: “突尼斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Tunisas”
  • Livvi: “Tunisu”
  • Lojban: “tunis”
  • Lombard: “Tünisia”
  • Low German: “Republik Tunesie”
  • Low German: “Tunesie”
  • Low German: “Tunesië”
  • Low German: “Tunesien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tuneziska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tinizi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tunesien”
  • Macedonian: “Тунис”
  • Madurese: “Tunisia”
  • Malagasy: “Tonizia”
  • Malay: “Republik Tunisia”
  • Malay: “tn”
  • Malay: “TN”
  • Malay: “TUN”
  • Malay: “Tunisia”
  • Malayalam: “ടുണീഷ്യ”
  • Maltese: “it-Tuneżija”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tat-Tuneżija”
  • Maltese: “Tuneżija”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯨꯅꯤꯁꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Tooneesh”
  • Maori: “Tūnihia”
  • Marathi: “ट्युनिसिया”
  • Marathi: “ट्यूनिशिया”
  • Mazanderani: “تونس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tunisia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tunisia”
  • Minangkabau: “Tunisia”
  • Mingrelian: “ტუნისი”
  • Mirandese: “Tunísia”
  • Moksha: “Тунисия”
  • Moksha: “Тунисиянь Республикась”
  • Mongolian: “Тунис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تونس”
  • N'Ko: “ߕߎ߳ߣߑߖ߭ߌ”
  • Narom: “Républyique teunisienne”
  • Narom: “Républyique teunnisienne”
  • Narom: “T’nisie”
  • Narom: “Teunisie”
  • Narom: “Teunnisie”
  • Nauru: “Tunisia”
  • Navajo: “Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Biłikahii Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Nepali: “ट्युनिसिया”
  • Newari: “ट्युनिसिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Tunisiya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tuneesien”
  • Northern Sami: “Tunisia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tunisia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den tunisiske republikk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tunis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tunisia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tunisia”
  • Norwegian: “Tunisia”
  • Novial: “Tunisia”
  • Obolo: “Tunisia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tunisia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܘܢܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tunisia”
  • Oriya: “ଟୁନିସିଆ”
  • Oriya: “ଟ୍ୟୁନିସିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Tuniisiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Тунис”
  • Pali: “टुनिशिया”
  • Pampanga: “Túnes”
  • Pampanga: “Tunisia”
  • Panjabi: “ਟਿਊਨੀਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਟੁਨੀਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੁਨੀਸੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Tunesia”
  • Pedi: “Tunisia”
  • Persian: “تونس”
  • Picard: “Tunisie”
  • Piemontese: “Tunisìa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tunisia”
  • Polish: “Tunezja”
  • Pontic: “Τυνησίαν”
  • Portuguese: “Republica Tunisina”
  • Portuguese: “República Tunisina”
  • Portuguese: “Tunisia”
  • Portuguese: “Tunísia”
  • Pushto: “تونس”
  • Quechua: “Túnez”
  • Quechua: “Tunisya”
  • Romanian: “Tunisia”
  • Romansh: “Tunesia”
  • Rundi: “Tuniziya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тунис”
  • Russian: “Тунис”
  • Russian: “Тунисская Республика”
  • Rusyn: “Тунис”
  • Sakizaya: “Tunisia”
  • Samoan: “Tunisia”
  • Samogitian: “Tonėsos”
  • Sango: “Tunizïi”
  • Sanskrit: “टुनिशिया”
  • Santali: “ᱴᱩᱱᱤᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Tunisia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tunesien”
  • Scots: “Tunisie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tuinisea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tuinisia”
  • Serbian: “Tunis”
  • Serbian: “Тунис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tunis”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းတူႇၼီးသျႃး”
  • Shona: “Tunisia”
  • Sicilian: “Tunisìa”
  • Silesian: “Tůnezyjo”
  • Sindhi: “تيونس”
  • Sindhi: “تيونيسيا”
  • Sinhala: “ටියුනීසියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tunisia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tunisia”
  • Slovak: “Tuniská republika”
  • Slovak: “Tunisko”
  • Slovenian: “Tunizija”
  • Somali: “Tuniisiya”
  • Somali: “Tunisiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تونیس”
  • Southern Sotho: “Tunisia”
  • Spanish: “Republica Tunecina”
  • Spanish: “República Tunecina”
  • Spanish: “TN”
  • Spanish: “Tunez”
  • Spanish: “Túnez”
  • Spanish: “Tunicia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵓⵏⵙ”
  • Sundanese: “Tunisia”
  • Swahili: “Tunisia”
  • Swati: “IThunisiya”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Tunisien”
  • Swedish: “Tunisien”
  • Swiss German: “Tunesie”
  • Sylheti: “ꠔꠤꠃꠘꠤꠡꠤꠀ”
  • Tachelhit: “Tuns”
  • Tagalog: “Tunisia”
  • Tagalog: “Tunisya”
  • Tajik: “Тунис”
  • Talysh: “Tunis”
  • Talysh: “Tunıs”
  • Tamil: “டுனிசியா”
  • Tamil: “துனீசியா”
  • Tamil: “தூனிசியா”
  • Taroko: “Tunisia”
  • Tatar: “Тунис”
  • Telugu: “ట్యునీషియా”
  • Thai: “ตูนิเซีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศตูนิเซีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཏུ་ནི་ཤི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቱኒዚያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቱኒዝያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ቱኒዢያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tunīsia”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Tunisia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tunesien”
  • Tsonga: “Tunisia”
  • Tswana: “Tunisia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “tounes”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بلادي تونس”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “تونس”
  • Turkish: “Tunus”
  • Turkmen: “Tunis”
  • Twi: “Tunisia”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Tuni̱siya”
  • Tyap: “TN”
  • Tyap: “TUN”
  • Tyap: “Tuni̱siya”
  • Udmurt: “Тунис (кун)”
  • Udmurt: “Тунис”
  • Uighur: “تۇنىس”
  • Ukrainian: “Туніс”
  • Ukrainian: “Туніська Республіка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tuneziska”
  • Urdu: “تونس”
  • Uzbek: “Tunis”
  • Venetian: “Tunizia”
  • Venetian: “Tunizìa”
  • Veps: “Tunis”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Tunisia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Tuy-ni-di”
  • Vietnamese: “Tunisia”
  • Vietnamese: “Tunisie”
  • Vietnamese: “Tuy-ni-di (Tunisia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Tuy-ni-di”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tunisiya”
  • Volapük: “Tünisän”
  • Võro: “Tuneesiä”
  • Walloon: “Tunizeye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tunisia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Tiwnisia”
  • Welsh: “Tiwnisia”
  • Welsh: “tn”
  • Welsh: “Tunisia”
  • Western Armenian: “Թունուզ”
  • Western Frisian: “Tuneezje”
  • Western Frisian: “Tunesië”
  • Western Mari: “Тунис”
  • Western Panjabi: “تونس”
  • Wolof: “Tiniisi”
  • Wolof: “Tinisi”
  • Wu Chinese: “突尼斯”
  • Yakut: “Тунис”
  • Yiddish: “טוניסיע”
  • Yoruba: “Tunisia”
  • Yoruba: “Tuniṣia”
  • Yoruba: “Tùnísíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “突尼西亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Tunesië”
  • Zhuang: “Tunisia”
  • Zulu: “i-Tunisia”
  • Zulu: “IThuniziya”
  • Zulu: “ITunisia”
  • “ma Tunisi”
  • “TN”
  • “Tonėsos”
  • “TUN”
  • “Tuneesiä”
  • “Tunez”
  • “Tünisia”
  • “Tüniṡia”
  • “ट्यूनीशिया”

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