Bizerte is a city of the north of Tunisia located between the Mediterranean and the Lake Bizerte.
It is with 65 kilometers in the North-West of Tunis, the capital of the country, and with 15 kilometers of the course Blanc (the septentrional point of Africa).
The municipality has a population of 114.371 inhabitants (census of 2004) but one can estimate the population of his agglomeration (also including/understanding Menzel Jemil and Menzel Abderrahmane) at approximately 150.000 inhabitants. Bizertins are descendants of the Arab and Berber immigrants of Algeria, fleeing the years of dryness of the end of the XIXe century, of Moslems of Andalusia, Slavic Moslems of the Othoman Empire, Sicilians, of Corsicans, of Sardinians, Maltese and white Russians (installed in Bizerte after the Russian Revolution of 1917).