Kairouan
Kairouan, sometimes spelled Kairwan, Kayrawan or Al Qayrawan, is a city in Tunisia. It's a holy city in Islam, ranking fourth after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem as a place of pilgrimage.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Ed Kirby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Mosque of the Three Doors
Photo: IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mosque of the Three Doors or Mosque of Muhammad ibn Khairun is a mosque In the city of Kairouan, Tunisia.
Kairouan
- Type: City with 139,000 residents
- Description: Tunisian town
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia and locality
- Location: Kairouan, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
35.671° or 35° 40' 16" northLongitude
10.1006° or 10° 6' 2" eastPopulation
139,000Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)Open Location Code
8F7GM4C2+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 287543904OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2473449Wikidata ID
Q179570Kairouan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Takerwant
- Arabic: Kairouan
- Arabic: القيروان
- Arabic: القيرون
- Arabic: قيروان
- Arabic: مدينة القيروان
- Armenian: Կայրուան
- Asturian: Kairuán
- Azerbaijani: Qeyrəvan
- Azerbaijani: Əl-Qeyrəvan
- Bashkir: Ҡайраүән
- Basque: Kairuan
- Belarusian: Кайруан
- Belarusian: Кайрўан (Туніс)
- Belarusian: Кайрўан (горад)
- Belarusian: Кайрўан (места)
- Belarusian: Кайрўан
- Bengali: কাইরুয়ান
- Bengali: কায়রুয়ান
- Bengali: কায়রোয়ান
- Bosnian: Kairuan
- Bulgarian: Кайруан
- Catalan: Al-Qayrawan
- Catalan: Kairouan
- Catalan: Kairuan
- Catalan: Kayrawan
- Catalan: Qayrawan
- Cebuano: Kairouan (kapital sa lalawigan)
- Cebuano: Kairouan
- Chinese: 凯鲁万
- Chinese: 凱魯萬
- Croatian: Kairouan
- Croatian: Kairuan
- Czech: Kairouan
- Czech: Kairuán
- Czech: Kajruván
- Danish: Kairouan
- Dutch: Kairouan
- Egyptian Arabic: القيروان
- English: Al-Qayrawan
- English: Kairwan
- English: Kirwan
- Esperanto: Kairuano
- Esperanto: Kajruano
- Estonian: Al-Qayrawan
- Estonian: Al-Qayrawān
- Estonian: Kairouan
- Finnish: Al-Qairawân
- Finnish: Al Qayrawan
- Finnish: Kairouan
- Finnish: Kairuan
- French: Kairouan
- Galician: Kairouan
- Galician: Kairuan
- Galician: Qairawan
- Georgian: კაირუანი
- German: Al-Qairawan
- German: Al-Qayrawān
- German: Kairouan
- German: Kairowan
- German: Kairuan
- German: Qairawān
- Greek: Αλ Καϊραουάν
- Greek: Καϊραουάν
- Greek: Καϊρουάν
- Gujarati: કૈરૌન
- Hebrew: קירואן
- Hindi: कैरूआन
- Hindi: कैरौआन
- Hungarian: Kairuán
- Hungarian: Kajraván
- Indonesian: Al-Qairawan
- Indonesian: Kairouan
- Irish: Kairouan
- Italian: Kairawan
- Italian: Kairouan
- Italian: Kairuan
- Italian: Qayrawan
- Japanese: カイラワン
- Japanese: カイラワーン
- Japanese: カイルアン
- Japanese: カイルアーン
- Japanese: ケルアン
- Kabyle: Qayrawan
- Kannada: ಕೈರೋವಾನ್
- Kazakh: Kaýrwan (Kaïrvan, Kerwan) qalası
- Kazakh: Кайруан (Каирван, Керуан) қаласы
- Kazakh: Кайруан қаласы
- Kazakh: Қайруан қаласы
- Kazakh: كايرۋان (كاىيرۆان، كەرۋان) قالاسى
- Kirghiz: Кайруан
- Korean: 카이로우안
- Korean: 카이로우완
- Korean: 카이루안
- Korean: 카이루완
- Korean: 카이르안
- Korean: 카이르완
- Latvian: Kairavāna
- Latvian: Kairuāna
- Lithuanian: Kairuanas
- Malay: Kairouan
- Maltese: Kairouan
- Marathi: केअरौआन
- Moroccan Arabic: القيروان
- Norwegian: Kairouan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kairouan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Al-Qayrawan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Al Qayrawan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kairouan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kairwan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kayrawan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: القيروان
- Ossetian: Кайруан
- Persian: قیروان
- Polish: Al-Kajrawan
- Polish: Kairouan
- Polish: Kairuan
- Polish: Kajrowan
- Portuguese: Cairuão
- Portuguese: Kairouan
- Portuguese: al-Qayrawan
- Romanian: Kairouan
- Russian: Каирван
- Russian: Кайраан
- Russian: Кайруан
- Russian: Керуан
- Scots: Kairouan
- Scots: Kirwan
- Serbian: Keruan
- Serbian: Керуан
- Serbo-Croatian: Al-Qayrawan
- Serbo-Croatian: Kairouan
- Serbo-Croatian: Kairuan
- Sicilian: Kairouan
- Sinhala: කයිරොඋඅන්
- Sinhala: කයිරෝඋආන්
- Slovak: Kajruván
- Slovenian: Al Kairouan
- Slovenian: Kairouan
- South Azerbaijani: قیروان
- Spanish: Cairuán
- Spanish: Kairouan
- Spanish: Kairuan
- Spanish: Kairuán
- Spanish: Qairawan
- Spanish: Qayrawan
- Swahili: Kairuan
- Swedish: Al Qayrawan
- Swedish: Kairouan
- Tamil: கிரௌனா
- Tamil: கைரோயன்
- Telugu: కేరోయువాన్
- Thai: อัลก็อยเราะวาน
- Turkish: Al Qayrawan
- Turkish: Kairouan
- Turkish: Kayravan
- Turkish: Kayrevan
- Uighur: قەيرەۋان
- Ukrainian: Кайруан
- Urdu: قیروان
- Uzbek: Qayravon
- Uzbek: Qayruvon
- Vietnamese: Kairouan
- Waray (Philippines): Kairouan
- Welsh: Kairouan
- Western Panjabi: قیروان
- Wu Chinese: 凯鲁万
- Zulu: Kairouan
- Al-Kayrawān
- Al Qayrawān
- Qairouan
- Qairwan
- Қайруан
Other Places Named Kairouan
Localities in the Area
- RakkadaVillage
- El GhabetVillage
- El MrazigVillage
- ElbatenVillage
- Ouled AyadiVillage, 10 km west
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kairouan. Photo: Ed Kirby, CC BY-SA 2.0.