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Tunisia
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| Official
Name : | AL-JUMHURIYA
AT-TUNISIYA (Republic of Tunisia) |
| Land
Area: | 163,610
square kilometres / 63,153 square miles. |
| Population: | 1,075,000
(est July 2005). Density 61.8 persons per square kilometre. |
| Languages: | Arabic
(official), French, Berber. |
| Religions: |
Sunni Muslim 97%. | | Capital: | Tunis.
Population 675,000 | | Currency: | dinar,
divided into 1000 millimes. |
| Geography: | Running
between the high peaks of the Tunisian Dorsal and the Kroumirie Mountains, is
the Mejerda, Tunisia's only perennial river. This valley was once the granary
of ancient Rome, and today still the richest grain producing area. The south is
marked by a series of chotts (salt lake depressions) that are only filled after
heavy rain. Further south is largely sandy desert, much of it part of the Great
Eastern Erg. |
| National
Flag - Ratio 2:3 | Climate
in Tunis - elevation 66m/217ft | Position
in Africa |  |  |  |
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