Tunis
Tunis is the capital of Tunisia. There are quite a few must-see attractions, especially if you include the ruins of Carthage, which are easily accessed from here, and the Punic ports are interesting, too.Photo: Citizen59, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Cathedral of Saint Vincent de Paul
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul is a Roman Catholic church located in Tunis, Tunisia.
Bab el Bhar
Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bab el Bhar, also known as Porte De France, is a city gate in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
Dar Hussein
Photo: Alpha bakemono, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dar Hussein, is an old palace in the medina of Tunis. The castle's place and Dar Hussein…
Localities in the Area
Medina of Tunis
Photo: Raspail, Public domain.
The Medina of Tunis is the medina quarter of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia.
Lafayette
Photo: Youssefbensaad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
36°48′43″N 10°10′52″E / 36.811833°N 10.181000°E Headquarter of the Tunisian Radio since 1954Great Synagogue of TunisLafayette is the central district of Tunis which occupies the northern area of the avenue Habib Bourguiba.
Tunis
- Type: City with 728,000 residents
- Description: capital of Tunisia
- Categories: big city, million city, municipality of Tunisia and locality
- Location: Tunis Governorate, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
36.8002° or 36° 48' 1" northLongitude
10.1858° or 10° 11' 9" eastPopulation
728,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)IATA airport code
TUNUnited Nations Location Code
TN TUNOpen Location Code
8F8GR52P+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 27564968OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2464470Wikidata ID
Q3572Tunis Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Tunes
- 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: Tunis
- Arabic: تونس
- Arabic: تونس العاصمة
- Arabic: مدينة تونس
- Aragonese: Túniz
- Armenian: Թունիս
- Arpitan: Tunis
- Asturian: Túnez
- Avaric: Tunus
- 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 Kurdish: توونس
- Chechen: Тунис
- Chinese: Tunis
- Chinese: 突尼斯
- Chinese: 突尼斯市
- Chuvash: Тунис
- Corsican: Tunisi
- Croatian: Tunis
- Czech: Tunis
- Danish: Tunis
- Dutch: Tunis
- Egyptian Arabic: تونس
- Erzya: Тунис (ош)
- Erzya: Тунис
- Esperanto: Tunizo
- Estonian: Tunis
- Extremaduran: Túnis
- Fiji Hindi: Tunis
- Finnish: Tunis
- French: 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
- 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
- Kalmyk: Тунисин Орн
- Kannada: ಟುನೀಶಿಯ
- Kannada: ಟ್ಯುನಿಸ್
- Kazakh: Тунис (қала)
- Kazakh: Тунис
- Kazakh: Тунис қаласы
- Kirghiz: Тунис шаары
- Kongo: Tunis
- Korean: 뜌니스
- Korean: 튀니스
- Kotava: Tunus
- Kurdish: Tûnis
- 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
- Mingrelian: ტუნისი
- Moksha: Тунис
- Mongolian: Тунис
- Mongolian: Тунис хот
- Moroccan Arabic: تونس
- Moroccan Arabic: تونس لعاصمة
- Nepali: ट्युनिस
- Northern Frisian: Tunis
- Northern Sami: Tunis
- Norwegian: Tunis
- Norwegian: Tunisia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Tunis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Tunis
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Piemontese: Tùnis
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Tunis
- Polish: Tunis
- Portuguese: Tunes
- Portuguese: Túnis
- Pushto: تونس
- Pushto: تونس ښار
- 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
- Sinhala: ටියුනිස්
- Skolt Sami: Tunis
- Slovak: Tunis
- Slovenian: Tunis
- Somali: Tunis
- South Azerbaijani: تونس (شهر)
- South Azerbaijani: تونس
- Spanish: Tunez
- Spanish: Túnez
- Swahili: Tunis
- Swedish: Tunis
- Swiss German: Tunis
- Tagalog: Tunis
- Tajik: Тунис
- Talysh: Tunis şəhər
- 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
- Veps: Tunis
- Vietnamese: Tunis
- Volapük: Tunis
- 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: Tunis
- Tunis-Ville
Other Places Named Tunis
In the Area
- Bab El FellaSuburb
- Bab JedidSuburb
- Bab SouikaSuburb
- El HalfaouineSuburb
- MontplaisirSuburb
- Bab LaassalTown
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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 Tunis. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.