Lovely Trip to Tunisia: Jade

Tunisia

Tunisia is the northernmost country in Africa. It is an Arab Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area is almost 165,000 square kilometres (64,000 sq mi), with an estimated population of just under 10.7 million. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis located in the northeast. Tunisia is the smallest country in North Africa. The south of the country is composed of the Sahara desert. The Tunisian revolution 2010-2011 was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations that took place in Tunisia. The protests inspired similar actions throughout the Arab world; sparking the Egyptian revolution in which Egypt's longtime president Hosni Mubarak was ousted, Libya – where a civil war broke out, the Yemeni Revolution, in which longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced to resign and further protests in Algeria, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, Mauritania, Pakistan, and Syria,– as well as elsewhere in the wider North Africa and Middle East.

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sexta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2012

Jade