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Tunis تونس | |
|---|---|
Ceety | |
| Ceety o Tunis | |
 Central esplanade o the Avenue Habib Bourguiba. | |
Flag o Tunis Banner | |
  Tunis | |
| Coordinates: 36°48′N 10°11′E / 36.800°N 10.183°E | |
| Kintra |  Tunisie |
| Govrenorate | Tunis |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Seifallah Lasram |
| Area | |
| • Ceety | 212.63 km2 (82.10 sq mi) |
| Population (2014)[1] | |
| • Ceety | 1 056 247[1] |
| • Density | 9406.01/km2 (24,361.5/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2 294 547 |
| • Metro | 2 643 695 |
| Demonym(s) | Tunisois (Tunisian Arabic: تونسي, Tounsi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Website | www |
Tunis (Arabic: تونس, Tūnis) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Tunisie an an' a' the Tunis Govrenorate, wi a population o 1,200,000 in 2008 an ower 3,980,500 in the greater Tunis aurie.
Situatit on a lairge Mediterranean Sea gulf (the Gulf o Tunis), ahint the Lake o Tunis an the port o La Goulette (Halq al Wadi), the ceety extends alang the coastal plain an the hills that surroond it. At the centre o mair modren development (colonial era an efter) lies the auld medina. ayont this section lie the suburbs o Carthage, La Marsa, an Sidi Bou Said.
The medina is foond at the centre o the ceety: a dense agglomeration o alleys an covered passages, full o intense scents an colours, boisterous an active tred, a surfeit o guids on affer rangin frae laither tae plastic, tin tae the finest filigree, tourist souvenirs tae the wirks o tiny crafts shops.
Juist throu the Sea Gate (cried the Bab el Bahr an the Porte de France an aa) begins the modren ceety, or Ville Nouvelle, transversed bi the grand Avenue Habib Bourguiba (aften referred tae bi popular press an traivel guides as "the Tunisian Champs-Élysées"), whaur the colonial-era buildings provide a clear contrast tae smawer, aulder structures. As the caipital ceety o the kintra, Tunis is the centre o Tunisian commercial activity, as well as the focus o poleetical an administrative life in the kintra. The expansion o the Tunisian economy in the last decades is reflectit in the boomin development o the ooter ceety whaur ane can see clearly the social challenges brocht aboot bi rapid modrenisation in Tunisie.
- ↑ a b Recensement de 2014 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine