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A Tunisian governorate tells you which slice of a narrow country you are in, and the delegation is the tier that names a town. It is the unit behind the sign outside the municipal offices, the one a national election is counted in, and the answer to "where in Tunisia is that?" once the 24 governorates stop being a challenge. This page is the delegations, the governorate and region each one sits in, and what tells one from its neighbours.
Tunisia's second tier is the delegation (in Arabic, mutamadiyya), and every one of the 24 governorates is made of between five and twenty or so of them. Each is run by a delegate appointed by the governor, and each takes the name of its main town. The tier below, the sector, is too fine to map, so the delegation is the smallest unit a Tunisian would name when asked where something is.
Big towns are split into pairs and fours. Sfax, Sousse, Gabès, Kairouan, Kasserine and Médenine each come as a north and a south delegation, or a city and its west side, and the pieces sit shoulder to shoulder. The names carry the French compass words that signs use, so they are the ones to read carefully: Sfax Ville is the old city, and Sfax Sud and Sfax Ouest are the ring round it.
The sizes are wildly uneven. The central delegations of Tunis are a few square kilometres each and the largest desert delegations in the south are thousands of times that. Greater Tunis is a crowd of tiny pieces that are only comfortable to tap once you zoom in, while the south is a handful of enormous ones, among them Remada, which runs to the Libyan border.
Each delegation belongs to one governorate, and the game groups them by the seven regions the governorates are grouped by. The same seven are the groups in the governorates game, so the two agree. Any of them can be switched on and off in the start dialog, which is the quickest way to learn the map: take one region, learn its delegations, then add the next. Every name can be switched to Arabic, the form on the top line of a Tunisian road sign.
The traps are mostly the same shape: a famous place that is not where its name suggests.
Famous places and the delegation they are in. Carthage has a delegation of its own on the bay north of Tunis, and Sidi Bou Saïd is inside it. The island of Djerba is three delegations, Houmt Souk, Midoun and Ajim, not one. The Kerkennah Islands off Sfax are a delegation made of an archipelago.
Two delegations with one name. Ezzouhour is the name of a delegation in Tunis and another in Kasserine, two hundred kilometres apart, and the game names each by its governorate. Medina means the old city in Tunis and a different thing in Ben Arous (Medina Jedida), so read the whole name.
Where the governorate and its capital part ways. A governorate is named for its capital, but the capital's delegation is often a small piece of it: Gafsa, Kairouan and Médenine are each split in two, and the delegations round them are named for other towns.
Medina (Tunis): the walled old city and nothing much else, a few square kilometres between the Lake of Tunis and the Sebkhet Sejoumi. It is the smallest kind of target on the map, wedged among Bab Bhar, Bab Souika, Sidi el-Béchir and El Ouardia, so zoom in before you tap.
Remada: a huge, nearly empty delegation in Tataouine governorate, running down to the Libyan and Algerian borders. It is many times the size of any delegation in the north, which is the quickest way to recognise it.
Kerkennah: the flat archipelago twenty kilometres off the coast of Sfax, reached by ferry from Sfax. It is a delegation of its own, and one of the few that are mostly islands, so it is easy once you know it sits offshore.
The tier of administration directly below the governorate. Each governorate is divided into delegations, each headed by a delegate appointed by the governor, and each in turn divided into sectors. Most delegations take the name of their main town.
No. A Tunisian civilian plate is a national serial number with the Arabic word for Tunisia between two groups of digits, and it says nothing about where the car is registered. Place names on road signs and paperwork are what point to a delegation.
Larger towns are administered as more than one delegation, and the French compass words are how the pieces are told apart on signs and in official lists. Sfax, Sousse, Gabès, Kairouan, Kasserine and Médenine are examples.
Yes. New delegations have been created by splitting existing ones from time to time, so an older map or list may show fewer. If a count in a source disagrees, check its year.
The pieces of greater Tunis, where the central delegations of the capital sit side by side with those of Ariana, Ben Arous and Manouba, and the paired halves of the larger towns. Further south the large desert delegations are told apart mainly by which border or oasis they touch.
The governorates come first in Tunisia Governorates. For other African administrative maps, try Morocco Provinces and Egypt Governorates.
