Country Tunisia Time zone CET (UTC1) Population 34,673 (2014) | Governorate Sfax Governorate Local time Thursday 2:14 PM | |
 | ||
Weather 21°C, Wind E at 23 km/h, 55% Humidity | ||
Kamatchou skhira a9wa chat7a binza
Skhira (Arabic: الصخيرة) is a coastal town in Sfax Governate (Arabic: ولاية صفاقس), central-eastern Tunisia. It is located at around 34°18′2″N 10°4′15″E. 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.
Contents
Map of Skhira, Tunisia
Souk skhira
References
Skhira Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA