Tunisia facts

Population: 11 million
Area: 163 610 km²  (Finland 338 424 km²⁾
Main religion: Islam
Spoken languages: Tunisian Arabic, French
Top 3 largest cities: Tunis (1 056 247, capital), Sfax (330 440), Sousse (271 428)

Some distances
Helsinki-Tunis: ~4000 km
Tunis-Sfax: ~300 km

• Tunisia achieved independence from France in 1956.
• Shortly after that women got full legal status (possibility to run and own businesses, have bank accounts, and seek passports under their own authority).
• The Arab Spring, wave of revolutionary actions in the Arab world, started in Tunisia on December 2010.
• Reasons behind the revolution were for example high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, a lack of freedom of speech and other political freedoms and poor living conditions.
• Tunisia is a representative democracy.
• The country is considered as the most modern one in Arab world and has for example higher woman participation in politics than in general in this area.

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