Map of Tunisia

Tunisia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 34.0° N, 9.0° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Algeria and Libya — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Tunisia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Tunisia shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Tunisia covers about 163,610 km² (63,170 sq mi). That makes it the 91st-largest country in the world by area and the 35th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 19 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,972,169, the 80th-largest in the world and the 32nd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Tunisia has an average population density of about 73 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 32nd by population and 35th by area.

The seat of government is Tunis, and the official currency is the Tunisian dinar (TND, د.ت), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Tunisia carries the ISO country codes TN and TUN, dials on the international calling code +216 and uses the .tn internet domain.

Tunisia shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Algeria (capital Algiers, about 47,400,000 people) and Libya (capital Tripoli, about 7,459,000 people).

By area, Tunisia is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 34.0° N, 9.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Tunisia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Tunis. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Tunisia lies about 3,774 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Tunisia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Tunisian dinar (TND, د.ت).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +216 and websites commonly use the .tn internet domain.

In short, Tunisia is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Tunis. Tunisia has a population of about 11,972,169 and covers around 163,610 km² (63,170 sq mi), ranking it 80th in the world by population and 91st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Tunisia.

The flag of Tunisia has a red field. A white circle bearing a five-pointed red star within a fly-side facing red crescent is situated at the center of the field.

The flag of Tunisia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.