The governorates are divided into 264 delegations (mutamadiyat), and further subdivided into municipalities (baladiyat),[1] and sectors (imadats).[2] Tunisia is divided into 6 regions.[3] It is mostly temperate near the capital Tunis, but becomes more arid in the southern regions due to the Saharan Desert.
^Portail de l'industrie Tunisienne Archived 6 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine, while the governorates and their sub-divisions have no civil personalities, they are an extension of the minitry, it is not the case for municipalities , which are form of decentralization and notr deconcentration like the governorates. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 January 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), in French
^"Fig. 1. Tunisia map according to region". ResearchGate. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
^"2014 Tunisian census data". Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
^"tunisieindustrie.nat.tn". Archived from the original on 17 December 2014.