Ezzahra
Sign in to saveEzzahra () is a coastal city on the outskirts of Tunis located south of the capital. Ezzahra is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the municipalities of Rades, Hammam Lif and Boumhel EL-Bassatine. Administratively attached to the governorate of Ben Arous, it is the seat of a delegation and a municipality of 31,792 inhabitants (in 2014) while the city itself has a population of 6000 inhabitants. The municipality of Ezzahra consists of four cities: Ezzahra, El Habib, 18 January and Borj El-Louzir.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ezzahra
- Settlement.native_name
- الزهراء
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ezzahra.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Tunisia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ben Arous Governorate
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Mohamed Rayen Hamzaoui
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 36,298
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 2034
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Tunisia
- Located in
- delegation of Ezzahra
- Population
- 34962
- Capital of
- delegation of Ezzahra
- Official website
- www.commune-ezzahra.gov.tn
- Image
- Ezzahra.jpg
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Ezzahra () is a coastal city on the outskirts of Tunis located south of the capital. Ezzahra is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the municipalities of Rades, Hammam Lif and Boumhel EL-Bassatine. Administratively attached to the governorate of Ben Arous, it is the seat of a delegation and a municipality of 31,792 inhabitants (in 2014) while the city itself has a population of 6000 inhabitants. The municipality of Ezzahra consists of four cities: Ezzahra, El Habib, 18 January and Borj El-Louzir.
== History == The municipality was founded on September 10, 1909, during the colonial period, under the name of Saint-Germain and was subsequently renamed Ezzahra after the independence of Tunisia in honor of national fighter Lazhar Chraïti (1919-1963).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ezzahra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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