Tunisia

Facts

What the numbers say about Tunisia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 108× the size of Tunisia.
• At 74 people per km², Tunisia is the 90th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 34°N is drawn about 1.5× too large in area, so Tunisia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Tunisia's main territory stretches about 791 km north to south and 379 km east to west.
• Our measured 157,000 km² is 4.3% below Wikidata's official figure of 164,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Tunisia measures up

Tunisia holds 0.5% of the land area and 0.8% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Northern Africa it is the 6th largest of 7.

Where Tunisia sits

• Tunisia's centre lies at 34.1°N, 9.6°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 3,790 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 30°N to 37°N, about 790 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Tunisia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Tunisia would have 196.2 million people. It has 11.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Tunisia would have 583,000 people. It has 11.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 11.3 million.

Compare Tunisia

• Somaliland vs Tunisia
• Tunisia vs Nepal
• Tunisia vs Suriname
• Tunisia vs Tajikistan
• United Kingdom vs Tunisia
• Italy vs Tunisia
• Germany vs Tunisia
• Jiangxi vs Tunisia
• Henan vs Tunisia
• Andhra Pradesh vs Tunisia
• Tunisia vs Shanxi
• Tunisia vs Shandong