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.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Carthage, on the outskirts of Tunis, was Rome's great rival for control of the Mediterranean.
> BORDERS_
Tunisia touches two neighbours: Algeria to the southwest and Libya to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Tunis sits beside the ruins of Carthage, Rome's great rival, which are now effectively a suburb of the capital.
> SCALE_
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 FLAG_
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.