Sidi El Hani

Sidi El Hani
(سيدي الهاني)
Vicus Augusti
Commune and town
Country Tunisia
GovernorateSousse Governorate
Delegation(s)Sidi El Hani
Government
 • MayorMohamed Jliti (Nidaa Tounes)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total2,651
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Postal code
4025

Sidi El Hani (or Sidi Al-Hani) (سيدي الهاني) is a town and commune in the Sousse Governorate, Tunisia located at 35.67n, 10.30e. As of 2004 it had a population of 3,058. It gives its name to the largest lake of the governorate, a natural salt lake or salt pan (sabkha) in dry seasons, the Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani which is shared with between one and two other areas depending on precipitation and its maximum extent forms the official boundary with part of a third, Monastir Governorate. The town is 30 km south-west of the coast, its straightest connection being by Tunisian Railways, with a secondary connection by road, the P12 road which is a principal road to Kairouan from the A1 a few kilometres to the east.[1] it is 19 km from Kairouan[2] and 26 km from Raqqada.

  1. ^ (in French) Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville, Compendium of Ancient Geography, Volume 2 (R. Faulder, 1791) p834.