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Key facts
- Country
- Tunisia
- Created
- 21 June 1956
- Capital
- El Kef
- Governor
- Walid Kabbia (since 2024)
- Total
- 4,965 km (1,917 sq mi)
- Rank
- Ranked 10th of 24
- Density
- 48.97/km (126.8/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01 ( CET )
- Postal prefix
- xx
- Iso 3166 code
- TN-33
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- governorate of Tunisia
- Official name
- ولاية الكاف
- Country
- Tunisia
- Located in
- Tunisia
- Capital
- El Kef
- Population
- 243156
- Area
- 4965.0
- Elevation
- 654
- Time zone
- Central European Time
- Official website
- www.citypopulation.de/en/tunisia/mun/admin/23__kef
- Image
- El Kef roman baths, mosque and casbah.jpg
- Dialing code
- 78
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- xx
- inception
- 1956-06-21
- topic's main category
- Category:Kef Governorate
- Commons category
- Kef Governorate
- native label
- ولاية الكاف
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Encyclopedic overview
Kef Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية الكاف Wilāyat el-Kāf pronounced [lke̞ːf]; French: Gouvernorat du Kef) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It comprises chiefly part of the dorsal Atlas Mountains and their foothills in north-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 4,965 km and has a population of 243,156 (2014 census). The capital is El Kef. The region is primarily agricultural and mining. The agricultural land, which accounts for 98% of the total area of the governorate, is vast and fertile (485,153 hectares, including 102,215 hectares of forest and 337,489 hectares of agricultural land), enabling it to contribute 4.9% to national agricultural production.
Administrative divisions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kef Governorate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.