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Essential Information
Area: 164,150 sq km
Population: 10.4 million
Capital: Tunis
Principal Towns: Sfax, Djerba, Sousse, Bizerta, Kairouan.
Languages: Arabic is the official language and French is widely
used, particularly in education, commerce and administration.
English is also spoken in business circles.
Gross Domestic Product: $35.01 billion (2007 est.).
GDP per capita: $3,398.
Climate: Northern and coastal Tunisia has a Mediterranean climate
with winter rainfall; this is greatest in the northern mountains.
Further south and further inland the climate becomes increasingly
dry with extremes of temperatures.
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