Sfax, second city and economic center of Tunisia, is a harbour city of the south of the country located at approximately 270 kilometers of Tunis.
Rich person of its industries and its port, the city plays an economic part of foreground with the export of the olive oil and dried fish. Sfax is a city of businesses and attracts the tourists little.
That does not exclude the presence from certain interesting sites, such as the médina and Thyna, in spite of the presence of the treatment plants of phosphate. Sfax counts 265.131 inhabitants (for an agglomeration, Large Sfax, approximately 500.000 inhabitants) and presents as agglomeration very wide (on 220 km ² is as much as the agglomeration of Tunis who counts to 4 times more inhabitants), punt and included/understood in an urban fabric structured by axes of communication in cobweb. It is bordered in the east by the Mediterranean and the starter of the gulf of Gabès. It would be with an agricultural produce, cucurbitaceous, that Sfax would owe its name. This last would come indeed from fakous which means “Tunisian cucumber”.