Gabès Govrenorate
Gabès Governorate (Arabic: ولاية قابس) is ane o the twintie-fower governorates (provinces) o Tunisie. It is locatit in sooth-eastren Tunisie. It covers an aurie o 7,175 square kilometres (2,770 sq mi) an haes a population o 343,000 (2004 census). The caipital is Gabès.
Geography
[eedit | eedit soorce]The governorate o Gabès is locatit in sootheast Tunisie on the coast o the Gulf o Gabès, 376 km sooth o the caipital, Tunis.
It haes some sma ceeties, sic as:
- Chenini Nahal
- El Hamma
- Ghannouch (Ghanoosh)
- Mareth
- Matwiya
- Matmâta
- Menzel el Habeeb
- Métouia
- Nouvelle Matmata (New Matmata)
- Oudhref
- Widthreff
- Zarat
Gabès haes a het Mediterranean wather. Gabès affers five contrastin landscapes: the beach, the mountains, the desert, sma forest, oasis.
Tourism
[eedit | eedit soorce]The maist famous tourist site in Gabès govrenorate is Matmata. Matmata is ane o the rare ceeties in the warld that is still in its oreeginal state. Gabès is famous for its muntains an naitural places.
