Mahres

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Mahres المحرس Mahares, El Mahres
Mahres
Coordinates: 34°32′N 10°30′E / 34.533°N 10.500°E / 34.533; 10.500
Country	Tunisia
Governorate	Sfax Governorate
Area
• Total	13 km2 (5 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	15,878[1]
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

Mahres (Tunisian Arabic: "place for guard"), also known as Mahares or El Mahres, is a coastal town in Tunisia about thirty kilometers south of Sfax and 300 kilometers from Tunis. It had 15,878 inhabitants in 2014.^[1]

Administratively attached to the governorate of Sfax, it became on April 1, 1918 a municipality and, after independence in 1956, the capital of a delegation whose area is estimated at 436 km.