Kebili
| Kebili قبلي |
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 Tunisia
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| Governorate | Kebili Governorate | ||
| Délégation (s) | Kebili North, Kebili South | ||
| Post Code | 4200 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| population | 18,693 pop (2004) | ||
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| height | 49 m | ||
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 42 ′ N , 8 ° 58 ′ E | ||
Kebili ( Arabic ڨبلي) is a city in southern Tunisia with 18,693 inhabitants (as of 2004).
The capital of the governorate of the same name is located between the cities of Douz , 27 km to the south, Tozeur , 80 km to the west and Gabès , 107 km to the east. The city is also located between two salt lakes , east of the Chott el Djerid and south of the Chott el Fedjadj, as it were on a peninsula.
Kebili is one of the oldest oases in Tunisia and North Africa with around 100,000 date palms . In addition to Arabs and Berbers, many black Africans live in the city. Kebili used to be a center of the slave trade to Europe, which ran through the port of Gabès.
On July 7, 1931, a temperature of 55 ° C was measured in Kebili, which is still the heat record for Africa today .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Report on an excursion by the Free University of Berlin
- ↑ World Meteorological Organization Global Weather & Climate Extremes Archive at wmo.asu.edu , accessed December 30, 2016.