Kairouan Governorate

Kairouan Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية قيروان‎ Wilāyat Qiyrwān) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is landlocked and in the centre-east of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km² and has a population of 570,559 (2014 census). The narrower province of Sousse borders it to the east, the nearest coastline[1] The capital is Kairouan. Lowland parts of the province are semi-arid, experiencing in most years light rains in the winter months and scant rainfall in other months but higher parts attract relief precipitation in and around the Djebel Zhagdoud and a large part of the Djebel Serj national parks, in the north-east of the province which are geologically outcrops of the Dorsal Atlas mountains in the province to the north.

Kairouan

قيروان
Governorate
Map of Tunisia with Kairouan highlighted
Subdivisions of Kairouan Governorate
Coordinates: 35°40′N 10°06′E
CountryTunisia
Created21 June 1956
CapitalKairouan
Area
 • Total6,712 km2 (2,592 sq mi)
Area rankRanked 9th of 24
Population
 (2014)
 • Total570,559
 • RankRanked 5th of 24
 • Density85/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01 (CET)
Postal prefix
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ISO 3166 codeTN-41

Administrative divisions

The Kairouan Governorate is divided into eleven delegations (mutamadiyat), listed below with their populations at the 2004 and 2014 Censuses,[2] and further sub-divided into sectors (imada).

DelegationArea
in km2		Population
2004 Census		Population
2014 Census
Alaâ36131,77328,991
Bou Hajla69070,58972,371
Chebika51333,88935,308
Echrarda33025,90327,518
Haffouz61143,79240,066
Hajeb El Ayoun58935,40336,137
Kairouan Nord25183,79496,781
Kairouan Sud52080,44493,101
Nasrallah68537,11233,789
Oueslatia91536,19534,452
Sbikha1,06967,31571,922

Twelve municipalities are included within Kairouan Governorate:

CodeMunicipalityPopulation
(2014)[3]
4111Kairouan139,070
4112Chebika2,921
4113Sbikha8,036
4114Oueslatia9,006
4115Aïn Djeloula1,757
4116Haffouz8,429
4117Alaâ3,276
4118Hajeb El Ayoun10,621
4119Nasrallah5,012
4120Menzel Mehiri3,870
4121Echrarda1,705
4122Bou Hajla7,828

Nature reserves

References
  1. (in French)Census 2014 (National Institute of Statistics) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Institut National de la Statistique Tunisie (web).
  3. Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat 2014 – Population, logements et ménages par commune et arrondissement [Census 2014 results – population, accommodation and households per municipality and delegation] (Report) (in French). National Institute of Statistics. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  4. "Reserve Naturelle" (PDF). www.onagri.nat.tn. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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