Kairouan Governorate

Kairouan Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية قيروان Wilāyat Qiyrwān; French: Gouvernorat de Kairouan) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is landlocked and in the centre-east of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km² and has a population of 570,559 (2014 census). The narrower province of Sousse borders it to the east, the nearest coastline^[2] The capital is Kairouan. Lowland parts of the province are semi-arid, experiencing in most years light rains in the winter months and scant rainfall in other months but higher parts attract relief precipitation in and around the Djebel Zhagdoud and a large part of the Djebel Serj national parks, in the north-east of the province which are geologically outcrops of the Dorsal Atlas mountains in the province to the north.

Kairouan قيروان
Governorate
Map of Tunisia with Kairouan highlighted
Subdivisions of Kairouan Governorate
Coordinates: 35°40′N 10°06′E
Country	Tunisia
Created	21 June 1956
Capital	Kairouan
Government
• Governor	Dhaker Bargaoui (since 2024) [1]
Area
• Total	6,712 km2 (2,592 sq mi)
• Rank	Ranked 8th of 24
Population  (2014)
• Total	570,559
• Rank	Ranked 5th of 24
• Density	85/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01 (CET)
Postal prefix	xx
ISO 3166 code	TN-41

Administrative divisions

The Kairouan Governorate is divided into eleven delegations (mutamadiyat), listed below with their populations at the 2004 and 2014 Censuses,^[3] and further sub-divided into sectors (imada).

Delegation	Area in km2	Population 2004 Census	Population 2014 Census
Alaâ	361	31,773	28,991
Bou Hajla	690	70,589	72,371
Chebika	513	33,889	35,308
Echrarda	330	25,903	27,518
Haffouz	611	43,792	40,066
Hajeb El Ayoun	589	35,403	36,137
Kairouan North	251	83,794	96,781
Kairouan South	520	80,444	93,101
Nasrallah	685	37,112	33,789
Oueslatia	915	36,195	34,452
Sbikha	1,069	67,315	71,922

Twelve municipalities are included within Kairouan Governorate:

Code	Municipality	Population (2014)[4]
4111	Kairouan	139,070
4112	Chebika	2,921
4113	Sbikha	8,036
4114	Oueslatia	9,006
4115	Aïn Djeloula	1,757
4116	Haffouz	8,429
4117	Alaâ	3,276
4118	Hajeb El Ayoun	10,621
4119	Nasrallah	5,012
4120	Menzel Mehiri	3,870
4121	Echrarda	1,705
4122	Bou Hajla	7,828

Nature reserves

• Aïn Chrichira^[5]

References

1. https://www.tap.info.tn/en/Portal-Top-News-EN/17861830-president-of-the
2. (in French)Census 2014 (National Institute of Statistics) Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
3. Institut National de la Statistique Tunisie (web).
4. Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat 2014 – Population, logements et ménages par commune et arrondissement [Census 2014 results – population, accommodation and households per municipality and delegation] (Report) (in French). National Institute of Statistics. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
5. "Reserve Naturelle" (PDF). www.onagri.nat.tn. Retrieved 23 April 2018.