June 19, 2013
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Description
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the smallest country in North Africa. It is a Maghreb country bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east.
Tunisia is almost 165,000 square kilometres in area, with an estimated population of just under 10.7 million. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis located in the northeast. The south of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil and 1,300 kilometres of coastline.
Tunisia has an association agreement with the European Union and is a member of the Arab Maghreb Union, the Arab League, and the African Union. Tunisia has established close relations with France in particular, through economic cooperation, industrial modernization, and privatisation programs.
In 2011 a revolution resulted in the overthrow of autocratic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the first free elections in the country were held. Since then Tunisia has been consolidating its young democracy.
(via Freebase)
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![Tunisia's new president expresses support for Bahraini revolution [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-313000/313238/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=848f6552d9e1960c5307018b61f7774e)
![Mock trial in Tunisia sentences Ben Ali to death [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312764/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=d524c9526476dd4e9b8398feadd847e2)
![Anger erupts in Tunisia's disenfranchised Sidi Bouzid [Future TV, Lebanon]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312584/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=b43a272aeca9424ffa3046e38eae8744)
![Tunisia's Ennahda to form wide-based coalition [Dubai TV, UAE]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312551/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=a2dd4246f205d25500b3ab317f9da7b1)
![Profile: Tunisia's victorious Ennahda party [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312508/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=3ca1b7fe14edd314507d7b49070301b4)
![Tunisian revolution bears its first fruit with historic election [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-312000/312478/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=04dfa1e6b505fed3c1f9309d822fe3c6)
