Tunisia
Tunisia (officially Tunisian Republic) is a country in Northern Africa, with its capital at Tunis, and is home to roughly 12.3M people.
Arabic is the official language; the currency in circulation is Tunisian dinar (د.ت); people from here are called Tunisian.
- »Carthage, on the outskirts of Tunis, was Rome's great rival for control of the Mediterranean.
Tunisia touches two neighbours: Algeria to the southwest and Libya to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Tunis sits beside the ruins of Carthage, Rome's great rival, which are now effectively a suburb of the capital.
156,876 km² (60,570 sq mi), 90th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Nepal.
Population 12,277,109, 80th of 198 on file. That averages 78 per km² (203 per sq mi).
The red field with a white disc bearing a star and crescent dates to the 1830s under the Husainid dynasty, making it one of the older flags in the Arab world.