The word Tunisia is derived from Tunis; a central urban hub and the capital of modern-day Tunisia. The present form of the name, with its Latinate suffix -ia, evolved from French Tunisie, in turn generally associated with

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Antiquity
Farming methods reached the Nile Valley from the Fertile Crescent region about 5000 BC, and spread to the Maghrebby about 4000 BC. Agricultural communities in the humid coastal plains of central Tunisia then were ancestors of

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Tunisia is situated on the Mediterranean coast of Northwest Africa, midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nile Delta. It is

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Ranked the most competitive economy in Africa by the World Economic Forumin 2009; Tunisia is an export-oriented country in the process of liberalizing and privatizing an economy that, while averaging 5% GDP growth since the early 1990s, has suffered from

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According to the CIA, as of 2021, Tunisia has a population of 11,811,335 inhabitants. The government has supported a successful family planningprogram that has reduced

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The culture of Tunisia is mixed due to its long established history of outside influence from people ‒ such as Phoenicians, Romans,

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Tunisia is a representative democracy and a republic with a president serving as head of state, a prime minister as head of government,

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