Geography of Tunis

Tunis - one of the small countries of the North Africa. Its terrain amounting 164,2  thousand both  sq. km, on a configuration reminds the triangle which has been drawn down in a meridional direction. The Northeast tip, cape Et-Tib, is unbound by a wide strait (150  km) from island Sicily.

In the west and in the south Tunis bounds with Algeria, in the southeast - with Libya, in the north and the east is flowed about by Mediterranean sea.

Despite small sizes, the south and the country north sharply differ the nature. The southern part of Tunis is occupied in the core by plains, northern - mounts. On the country north east part of the Saharsky Atlas comes; here it wears the name Big Dorsal, or the Tunisian ridge. Mounts low - 600-1200  m (the maximum altitude 1544 .