Kasserine Governorate
Kasserine Governorate (Arabic: ولاية الڨصرين <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Wilāyat al-Gaṣrīn) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is in the west-central part of the country. It covers an area of 8,260 km².[1] As of the 2014 census, 439,243 people lived there.[2][3] The capital is Kasserine.
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ڨصرين | |
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 Map of Tunisia with Kasserine highlighted | |
| Coordinates: 35°10′N 8°50′E / 35.167°N 8.833°ECoordinates: 35°10′N 8°50′E / 35.167°N 8.833°E | |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Created | June 21, 1956[1] |
| Capital | Kasserine |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Chedli Boualeg (2015) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,260 km2 (3,190 sq mi) |
| • Rank | Ranked 4th of 24 |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 439,243 |
| • Rank | Ranked 11th of 24 |
| • Density | 53.18/km2 (137.73/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01 (CET) |
| Postal prefix | 1200 |
| ISO 3166 code | TN-42 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 (in French) "tunisieindustrie.nat.tn". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17.
- ↑ "2014 Tunisian census data". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
- ↑ (in French) Census 2014 (National Institute of Statistics) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
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