Mahdia is a Tunisian coastal city located at 205 kilometers in the south of Tunis.
Chief town of the governorship of the same name, it constitutes a municipality of 45.977 inhabitants Built on a peninsula, it shelters one of the first fishing ports of the country.
Moreover, the tourist activity weighs more and more in the local economy.
Lastly, it is a dynamic center tertaire which has developed for a few years a pole of higher education (with in particular the establishment of the open Institute of economy and management in 1999).
If the historical district of Mahdia is located on the peninsula, the city extended towards the interior of the grounds (by the districts of Hiboun and Zouila in particular).