Sousse

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Sousse (Arabic: سوسة Pronunciation of the title in its original version Listen [suːsæ]) is a port city in eastern Tunisia, located 143 kilometers south of Tunis, and open to the Gulf of Hammamet (Mediterranean Sea) .
"Capital" of the Tunisian Sahel - it is sometimes nicknamed the "pearl of the Sahel" - and capital of the governorate of the same name, the population of its municipality reaches 221 530 inhabitants in 20141 while its agglomeration is close to 500 000 inhabitants, this which makes of it the third agglomeration of the country after Tunis and Sfax. The Medina of Sousse has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988.
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