Menzel Abderrahmane

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Menzel Abderrahmane

Founded

1984

Land area607 km²

Coordinates37.24°, 9.86°

Demographic figures from INS Tunisia. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Menzel Abderrahmane is a town and commune in the Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 16,824. The town is about sixty miles north of Tunis on the north shore of Lake Bizerte. It is part of the town of Bizerte which it is separated only a few kilometers. Attached to the Governorate of Bizerte, it belongs to the delegation of Menzel Jemil and is a municipality with 16,824 inhabitants in 2004.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Ali Boumnijel

Tunisian and French association football player

Ahmed Akaïchi

Tunisian association football player

Erno Crisa

Italian actor (1914–1968)

Malek Jaziri

Tunisian tennis player

Georges Madon

French flying ace (1892-1924)

W

William Karel

French film director

Nikita Mandryka

French cartoonist (1940-2021)

R

Riadh Bouazizi

Tunisian association football player

Pierre Cohen

French politician

B

Bruno Fontana

Italian film director, screenwriter and author

Restituta

Saint and martyr

Abdelmajid Lakhal

Tunisian theatre director and actor (1939-2014)

K

Khaled Gasmi

Tunisian association football player

Maurice Taieb

French geologist and anthropologist (1935-2021)

P

Pierre-Valentin Marchesseau

Sami Ben Gharbia

Tunisian Internet activist and blogger (born 1967)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bizerte

• Pont-Saint-Martin
  587.6 mi away · pop. 3,672
• Perloz
  588.5 mi away · pop. 82
• Bard
  588.8 mi away
• Hône
  589.2 mi away
• Pontboset
  589.2 mi away
• Lillianes
  589.4 mi away · pop. 337
• Champorcher
  591 mi away
• Arnad
  591.4 mi away · pop. 975
• Issogne
  592.4 mi away
• Cogne
  592.8 mi away
• Issime
  593 mi away · pop. 419
• Rhêmes-Notre-Dame
  593 mi away

Browse all places in Bizerte →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Lophyra flexuosa

Lophyra flexuosa

Seen 2026-09-17

Phyllognathus excavatus

Phyllognathus excavatus

Seen 2026-09-17

Anthaxia umbellatarum

Anthaxia umbellatarum

Seen 2026-09-17

Algerian Seven-spotted Lady Beetle

Coccinella septempunctata algerica

Seen 2026-09-16

22-spot Ladybird

Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata

Seen 2026-09-16

Tuberous Crane's-bill

Geranium tuberosum

Seen 2026-09-15

Rustic Dove-shell

Columbella rustica

Seen 2026-09-13

Banded Dye-murex

Hexaplex trunculus

Seen 2026-09-13

Fragile Cockle

Fulvia fragilis

Seen 2026-09-13

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).