Kairouan Governorate

Kairouan Governorate

Kairouan Governorate ranks 26,467th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Perlez, Nur, Iran, and Negombo. Memorable people born in Kairouan Governorate include Asad ibn al-Furat. Kairouan Governorate has been the birth place of many lawyers. Kairouan Governorate is located in .

Kairouan Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is landlocked and in the centre-east of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km2 and has a population of 570,559. The narrower province of Sousse borders it to the east, the nearest coastline The capital is Kairouan. Lowland parts of the province are semi-arid, experiencing in most years light rains in the winter months and scant rainfall in other months but higher parts attract relief precipitation in and around the Djebel Zhagdoud and a large part of the Djebel Serj national parks, in the north-east of the province which are geologically outcrops of the Dorsal Atlas mountains in the province to the north. Read more on Wikipedia