Tunis

Tunis (Arabic: تونس, Tūnisⓘ) e la kapital ane teŋkpoŋ ko Tunisia. A zikpoŋ metropolitan zie la a Tunis, ka ba meŋ maŋ boɔle ka "Grand Tunis", taa la 2,700,000 neŋkpeɛre. A 2020, ona la a teŋkpoŋ anaare soba naŋ be a Maghreb irigyin (yi a Casablanca puoriŋ ane Algiers) ane a tembɛrɛ pie ne yeni soba ko a  Arab tendaa.

 Suburb 
MunicipalityPopulation (2004)Ettadhamen-Mnihla118,487Ariana97,687La Soukra89,151El Mourouj81,986La Marsa77,890Douar Hicher75,844Ben Arous74,932Mohamedia-Fouchana74,620Le Bardo70,244Le Kram58,152Oued Ellil47,614Radès44,857Raoued53,911Hammam Lif38,401La Goulette28,407Carthage28,407La Manouba26,666Mornag26,406Djedeida24,746Den Den24,732Tebourba24,175Mégrine24,031Kalâat el-Andalous15,313Mornaguia13,382Sidi Thabet8,909Sidi Bou Saïd4,793El Battan5,761Borj El Amri5,556Total1,265,060Sources: National Institute of Statistics

 Climate 
Climate data for Tunis (Tunis–Carthage International Airport) 1991–2020, extremes 1943—presentMonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYearRecord high °C (°F)25.6
(78.1)28.7
(83.7)36.5
(97.7)33.1
(91.6)41.4
(106.5)47.0
(116.6)49.0
(120.2)49.0
(120.2)44.4
(111.9)40.0
(104.0)34.5
(94.1)29.6
(85.3)49.0
(120.2)Mean daily maximum °C (°F)16.4
(61.5)16.8
(62.2)19.4
(66.9)22.3
(72.1)26.5
(79.7)31.0
(87.8)34.0
(93.2)34.5
(94.1)30.5
(86.9)26.7
(80.1)21.5
(70.7)17.6
(63.7)24.8
(76.6)Daily mean °C (°F)12.3
(54.1)12.5
(54.5)14.6
(58.3)17.2
(63.0)21.0
(69.8)25.1
(77.2)28.1
(82.6)28.7
(83.7)25.6
(78.1)22.0
(71.6)17.2
(63.0)13.5
(56.3)19.8
(67.6)Mean daily minimum °C (°F)8.2
(46.8)8.1
(46.6)9.8
(49.6)12.1
(53.8)15.4
(59.7)19.3
(66.7)22.1
(71.8)22.9
(73.2)20.7
(69.3)17.3
(63.1)12.8
(55.0)9.4
(48.9)14.8
(58.6)Record low °C (°F)−5.3
(22.5)−2.6
(27.3)0.0
(32.0)1.7
(35.1)5.2
(41.4)10.6
(51.1)13.0
(55.4)11.7
(53.1)10.9
(51.6)5.6
(42.1)−1.1
(30.0)−0.1
(31.8)−5.3
(22.5)Average precipitation mm (inches)58.9
(2.32)54.9
(2.16)45.8
(1.80)37.9
(1.49)22.4
(0.88)12.8
(0.50)4.4
(0.17)14.5
(0.57)58.2
(2.29)54.7
(2.15)53.1
(2.09)68.1
(2.68)485.6
(19.12)Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)8.48.06.35.73.71.50.51.75.05.86.88.361.5Average relative humidity (%)76747371686462646872747770Mean monthly sunshine hours164.1176.8220.0235.8291.4317.3354.6327.3250.7220.7175.2157.82,891.7Mean daily sunshine hours4.75.76.47.59.110.311.510.68.67.05.84.87.7Source 1: Institut National de la Météorologie (humidity 1961-1990, sun 1981–2010)Source 2: NOAA (humidity/daily sun 1961–1990), Meteo Climat (record highs and lows)

 Demography 
YearMunicipalityMetropolitan area1891114,1211901146,2761911162,4791921171,676192,9941926185,996210,2401931202,405235,2301936219,578258,1131946364,593449,8201956410,000561,1171966468,997679,6031975550,404873,515Sources: Sebag (1998)
International relations

Twin towns and sister cities
Tunis is twinned with: Coopération internationale (Municipalité de Tunis)

  Amman, Jordan
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Montreal, Canada 
  Cologne, Germany
  Doha, Qatar
  Istanbul, Turkey
  Kuwait City, Kuwait
  Muscat, Oman
  Prague, Czech Republic
  Rabat, Morocco

Other cooperations

  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  Lisbon, Portugal
  Marseille, France
  Moscow, Russia
  Paris, France (Partner city)
  Rome, Italy (Partner city)
  Santiago, Chile
  Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  Tripoli, Libya

 Notable inhabitants 

 Serge Adda (1948–2004), president of the French TV channel TV5
 Tarak Ben Ammar (born 1949), Tunisian-French film producer
 Danièle Aron-Rosa (born 1934), French-Tunisian ophthalmologist and physician-scientist 
 Mustapha Ben Jafar (born 1940), Tunisian politician
 Sophie Bessis, (born 1947), Franco-Tunisian historian, journalist, and researcher
 Roberto Blanco (born 1937), German pop singer and actor
 Alain Boublil (born 1941), French musical author
 Abdelhamid Bouchnak (born 1984), filmmaker
 Claudia Cardinale (born 1938), Tunisian-Italian actress
 Hassen Chalghoumi (born 1972), imam 
 Moncef Chelli (1936–1994), philosopher and writer
 Jacob Chemla (1858–1938), ceramic artist
 Karine Chemla (born 1958), historian of mathematics and sinologist
 Pierre Darmon (born 1934), French tennis player
 Bertrand Delanoë (born 1950), mayor of Paris
 Salah El Mahdi (1925–2014), musicologist and composer
 Chokri El Ouaer (born 1966), football goalkeeper
 Farès Ferjani (born 1997), Olympic medalist saber fencer living in the U.S.
 Yehuda Getz (1924–1995), rabbi 
 Marc Gicquel (born 1977), French tennis player
 Azza Ghanmi, feminist and activist
 Tahar Haddad (1899–1935), promoter of women's emancipation in Tunisia
 Gisèle Halimi (1927–2020), Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist, and feminist activist
 Hédi Jouini (1909–1990), singer, oud player, and composer
 Amel Karboul (born 1973), entrepreneur, business consultant, and politician
 Abdellatif Kechiche (born 1960), Tunisian-French film director, screenwriter, and actor
 Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab sociologist and scholar
 Phillip King (1934–2021), British sculptor
 Margaret Maruani (born 1954), Tunisian-French sociologist, researcher
 Fouad Mebazaa (1933–2025), politician, President of Tunisia in 2011
 Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946–2014), Tunisian-French writer and radio staff
 Albert Memmi (1920–2020), French-Tunisian writer and sociologist
 Fatma Moalla (born 1939), mathematician
 Khaled Mouelhi (born 1981), footballer
 Alberto Pellegrino (1930–1996), Italian Olympic medalist épée and foil fencer
 Nicola Pietrangeli (born 1933), Italian tennis player
 Karim Saidi (born 1983), footballer
 Georges-Elia Sarfati (born 1957), philosopher, linguist, poet, existentialist psychoanalyst, and author 
 Joseph Sitruk (1944–2016), rabbi
 Georges Wolinski (1934–2015), French illustrator and caricaturist killed in the   Charlie Hebdo shooting
 Yazid Zerhouni (1937–2020), Algerian politician
Meŋ kaa kyɛ

 European enclaves in North Africa before 1830
 Barbary pirates
 Tunisian Community Center
 Tunisian Italians
Bibliography





Nimitɔɔre zannoo

 Jellal Abdelkafi, La médina de Tunis, éd. Presses du CNRS, Paris, 1989
 Alia Baccar-Bournaz [sous la dir. de], Tunis, cité de la mer (acte d'un colloque de 1997), éd. L'Or du temps, Tunis, 1999
 Philippe Di Folco, Le goût de Tunis, éd. Mercure de France, Paris, 2007
 Faouzia Ben Khoud, Tunis. Architectural Guide. Berlin 2020, .
 Abdelwahab Meddeb, Talismano, éd. Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1979
 Horst-Günter Wagner, Die Altstadt von Tunis. Funktionswandel von Handwerk und Handel 1968–1995. (The Medina of Tunis. Functional change of handicraft and commerce 1968–1995). Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 140, 1996, 5/6, S. 343–365.
Ziiri mine sommo

 The Municipality of Tunis official website
 The Municipality of Tunis official website 
 The Municipality of Tunis official website 
 Lexicorient 
 TunisForum:Guide ou sortir en Tunisie 
 Video tour of the Bardo Museum
 Video of Tunis Medina
Old maps of Tunis , Historic Cities  site

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Category:Populated places in Tunis Governorate
Category:Catholic titular sees in Africa
Category:Former Spanish colonies

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