Tunisia
Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is an Arab country in North Africa bordered to the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea, southeast by Libya (459 km) and west by Algeria (965 km). Its capital is Tunis. The Republic of Tunisia has an area of 163,610 km 2. According to the latest statistics in 2014, the population of the Republic of Tunisia is approximately 10,982,8 thousand. Tunisia has played important roles in ancient history since the time of the Phoenicians, Amazigh, Carthaginians, Vandals, and Romans. The Muslims opened it in the seventh century and founded the city of Kairouan in 50 AH to be the second Islamic city in North Africa after Fustat. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was called the Tunisian Ayala. Signed under French occupation in 1881, it gained its independence in 1956 to formally become the Kingdom of Tunisia at the end of the reign of Mohamed Lamine Bey. With the proclamation of the Republic of Tunisia on July 25, 1957, Habib Bour...