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Key facts
- Country
- Tunisia
- Governorate
- Sfax Governorate
- Total
- 21,544
- Time zone
- UTC1 ( CET )
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Encyclopedic overview
The amphitheatre in 1833
El Djem or El Jem (Tunisian Arabic: الجمّ, il-Jamm) is a town in Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia. Its population was 21,544 at the 2014 census. It is home to Roman remains, including the Amphitheatre of El Jem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Djem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.