A little insight into the geography of Tunisia
Tunisia is the northernmost country in Africa and, with an area of 163.610 square kilometers, twice the size of Bavaria and Austria.
The borderland in the west is Algeria, in the southeast Libya. Tunisia occupies the eastern part of the Maghreb (name for the western Muslim states Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco), which also includes Algeria and Morocco.
The northern part of the country is only 140 km from Sicily. In the north-south extent Tunisia measures approx. 800 km, from east to west up to 240 km.
As a transition area between the Mediterranean and the desert, Tunisia offers a very varied landscape from the mountainous north to the sand dune areas in the south.
In the northwest, the landscape is shaped by the foothills of the mighty Atlas Mountains, which run from the Atlantic across the entire Maghreb. The hilly and fertile Cap Bon peninsula merges into the cultural landscape of the Sahel in the south.
In the middle of the country is the central Tunisian steppe, which becomes more and more barren towards the south and finally meets the depression of the Chotts - the area of the great salt lakes. The sand and scree desert of the Sahara begins further south.
