Gulf of Tunis is a large gulf in northeastern Tunisia. It is located at around 36°59′0″N, 10°35′60″E. Tunis, the capital city of Tunisa lies at the southern edge of the gulf. A gulf or bay is a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides. ...
TUNIS, capital of Tunisia, the largest city in North Africa outside Egypt, in 36° 48' N., 10° 12' E. Tunis is situated on an isthmus between two salt lakes, the marshy Sebkha-elSejumi to the south-west, and the shallow el-Bahira (little sea), or Lake of Tunis, to the north-east.
That at the Tunis end of the canal is 1312 ft. long by 984 ft. broad, and is of the same depth as the canal.
Tunis is probably of greater antiquity than Carthage, of which city however it became a dependency, being repeatedly mentioned in the history of the Punic Wars.
Capital of Tunisia with 1.2 million inhabitants (2005 estimate), situated in the northeast of the country, at the end of Lake of Tunis, in from the Gulf of Tunis, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Tunis is the commercial and economic centre for northern Tunisia, and the administrative for the whole of Tunisia.
Tunis is divided into three parts, the old city, called medina; the French, which now is the centre; and the newer and larger regions built in the south and the north of the city.
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