Nabeul Governorate

Governorate of Tunisia

Governorate in Tunisia

Nabeul Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية نابل Wilāyat Nābil Tunisian pronunciation: [ˈnɛːbɪl]; French: Gouvernorat de Nabeul) is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,788 km² and has a population of 787,920 (2014 census).^[2] The capital is Nabeul.

Nabeul Governorate forms a peninsula which is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea on three sides. On the south-west side it is delimited by the three governorates of Zaghouan, Sousse and Ben Arous.

History

Nabeul, the main city of the governorate, was founded in the 5th century BC by the Greeks of Cyrene, serving as a trade port.^{[citation needed]} Its name is an Arabised form of the Greek Neapolis 'new city' (an etymology it shares with Naples, Neapoli, and Nablus).^{[citation needed]}

Administrative divisions

The governorate is divided into sixteen delegations (mutamadiyat), listed below with their populations at the 2004 and 2014 Censuses:^[3]

Municipalities

There are 24 municipalities (communes) within the Nabeul Governorate:

Climate

Nabeul has an arid climate with steppe precipitation and hot arid temperature.^[6]

References

1. https://www.tap.info.tn/en/Portal-Top-News-EN/17861830-president-of-the
2. (in French) Census 2014 (National Institute of Statistics) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
3. Institut National de la Statistique Tunisie (web).
4. Institut national de la statistique tunisie
5. Institut national de la statistique tunisie
6. World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol.15, No. 3, 259–263 (June 2006)
7. "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Nabeul, Tunisia". Weatherbase. 2011.Retrieved on September 11, 2013.