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
| Municipality | Population (2004) |
|---|---|
| Ettadhamen-Mnihla | 118,487 |
| Ariana | 97,687 |
| La Soukra | 89,151 |
| El Mourouj | 81,986 |
| La Marsa | 77,890 |
| Douar Hicher | 75,844 |
| Ben Arous | 74,932 |
| Mohamedia-Fouchana | 74,620 |
| Le Bardo | 70,244 |
| Le Kram | 58,152 |
| Oued Ellil | 47,614 |
| Radès | 44,857 |
| Raoued | 53,911 |
| Hammam Lif | 38,401 |
| La Goulette | 28,407 |
| Carthage | 28,407 |
| La Manouba | 26,666 |
| Mornag | 26,406 |
| Djedeida | 24,746 |
| Den Den | 24,732 |
| Tebourba | 24,175 |
| Mégrine | 24,031 |
| Kalâat el-Andalous | 15,313 |
| Mornaguia | 13,382 |
| Sidi Thabet | 8,909 |
| Sidi Bou Saïd | 4,793 |
| El Battan | 5,761 |
| Borj El Amri | 5,556 |
| Total | 1,265,060 |
| Sources: National Institute of Statistics | |
Climate
| Climate data for Tunis (Tunis–Carthage International Airport) 1991–2020, extremes 1943—present | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record 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) | 8.4 | 8.0 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 8.3 | 61.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 76 | 74 | 73 | 71 | 68 | 64 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 74 | 77 | 70 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 164.1 | 176.8 | 220.0 | 235.8 | 291.4 | 317.3 | 354.6 | 327.3 | 250.7 | 220.7 | 175.2 | 157.8 | 2,891.7 |
| Mean daily sunshine hours | 4.7 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 7.5 | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.5 | 10.6 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 7.7 |
| Source 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
| Year | Municipality | Metropolitan area |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 114,121 | |
| 1901 | 146,276 | |
| 1911 | 162,479 | |
| 1921 | 171,676 | 192,994 |
| 1926 | 185,996 | 210,240 |
| 1931 | 202,405 | 235,230 |
| 1936 | 219,578 | 258,113 |
| 1946 | 364,593 | 449,820 |
| 1956 | 410,000 | 561,117 |
| 1966 | 468,997 | 679,603 |
| 1975 | 550,404 | 873,515 |
| Sources: Sebag (1998) | ||
International relations
Twin towns and sister cities
Tunis is twinned with:
- Tɛmpileti:Country data JOR Amman, Jordan
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Tɛmpileti:Country data CAN Montreal, Canada
- Cologne, Germany
- Tɛmpileti:Country data QAT Doha, Qatar
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Tɛmpileti:Country data KUW Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Tɛmpileti:Country data OMA Muscat, Oman
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Rabat, Morocco
Other cooperations
Notable inhabitants
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- 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
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Documentation
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- 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, ISBN 978-3-86922-676-7.
- 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
Tɛmpileti:Wikivoyage
- The Municipality of Tunis official website
- The Municipality of Tunis official website (in Arabic)
- The Municipality of Tunis official website (in French)
- Lexicorient Archived 2010-11-24 at the Wayback Machine
- TunisForum:Guide ou sortir en Tunisie Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Video tour of the Bardo Museum
- Video of Tunis Medina
- Old maps of Tunis Archived 2021-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, Historic Cities Archived 2022-03-25 at the Wayback Machine site
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