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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 1,424 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; desert in south .
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| Area Total :
| 163,610 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 155,360 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 8,250 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly larger than Georgia .
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| Coast Line :
| 1,148 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 2,152 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 18,997 km .
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| Waterways :
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Bizerte, Gabes, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, Zarzis .
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Djerba [1] (also transliterated as Jerba, Jarbah or Girba) is the largest island off Northern Africa, located in the Gulf of Gabes off the coast of Tunisia. The climate is mild and the soil well cultivated. Its largest city is Houmt-Souk, with a population of around 20,000.
Djerba is a popular tourist destination, particularly for French, German, and Italian tourists. It is one of the few remaining places in Tunisia where a Berber language is still spoken. Another factor drawing some tourists to Djerba is the 1977 location of the Mos Eisley exterior scenes in the first Star Wars movie.
The island is noted as a center of the Islamic sect al-Ibadhiyah and is also noted for its Jewish minority, which has dwelled on the island for centuries, although populations have declined due to emigration to Israel and France since the mid-20th century. The El Ghriba synagogue is one of the oldest and most famous in the world.
In the early 20th century the island of Djerba had a population of forty thousand, several hundreds of whom were Maltese Catholics earning a livelihood as sponge-fishers.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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