Skhira
Sign in to saveSkhira () is a coastal town in Sfax Governorate, central-eastern Tunisia. It is located at around . It lies on the coast of the Gulf of Gabes. It has a large oil terminal for pipelines coming from the Tunisian and Algerian oilfields. The old village grew in the late nineteenth century as the centre of the export trade in esparto grass, used in the manufacture of paper.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Skhira
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Skhira.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Tunisia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Tunisia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Tunisia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sfax Governorate
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 11912
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- 1
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Tunisia
- Population
- 34511
- Image
- Skhira.jpg
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- Skhira
- postal code
- 3050
- inception
- 1968-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Skhira () is a coastal town in Sfax Governorate, central-eastern Tunisia. It is located at around . It lies on the coast of the Gulf of Gabes. It has a large oil terminal for pipelines coming from the Tunisian and Algerian oilfields. The old village grew in the late nineteenth century as the centre of the export trade in esparto grass, used in the manufacture of paper.
Category:Populated places in Sfax Governorate Category:Populated coastal places in Tunisia Category:Communes of Tunisia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skhira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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