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Khniss (Arabic: خنيس) is a small city in the Tunisian Sahel region. It is located on the coast, 5 km south of Monastir. Its population is estimated at around 11,000 as of 2014.

Key facts

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Khniss
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Khniss is a small city in the Tunisian Sahel region. It is located on the coast, 5 km south of Monastir. Its population is estimated at around 11,000 as of 2014.
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Plage_de_Khniss,_Tunisie_2013.jpg
Settlement.settlement_type
Commune and town
Settlement.native_name
خنيس
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Tunisia
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bottom
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Country
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Governorate
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Monastir Governorate
Settlement.population_as_of
2022
Settlement.population_total
12892
Settlement.timezone
CET
Settlement.utc_offset
+1

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

بلدية خنيس - Commune Khniss Tunisie

بلدية خنيس - مشروع "بلديتي" لرقمنة البلديات التونسية

commune-khniss.gov.tn

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Wikidata facts

Country
Tunisia
Population
10000
Image
Place des Martyrs, Khneis 01.jpg
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postal code
5011
Commons category
Khniss
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Encyclopedic overview

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Khniss (Arabic: خنيس) is a small city in the Tunisian Sahel region. It is located on the coast, 5 km south of Monastir. Its population is estimated at around 11,000 as of 2014.

Khniss is the hometown of the famous Tunisian linguist Abu Isaak Al Khounaysy who taught linguistics and grammar in the first islamic university and research center in Africa built by the Aghlabites in Kairouan according to the Tunisian historian Hassan Hosni Abdul-Wahab

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khniss” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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