Kairouan Governorate

Kairouan Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is landlocked and in the centre-east of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km² and has a population of 600,803. The capital is Kairouan. Lowland parts of the province are semi-arid, experiencing in most years light rains in the winter months and scant rainfall in other months but higher parts attract relief precipitation in and around the Djebel Zhagdoud and a large part of the Djebel Serj national parks, in the north-east of the province which are geologically outcrops of the Dorsal Atlas mountains in the province to the north.

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Administrative divisions

The Kairouan Governorate is divided into eleven delegations, listed below with their populations at the 2004 and 2014 Censuses, and further sub-divided into sectors.

Delegation	Area in km²	Population 2004 Census	Population 2014 Census
Alaâ	361	31,773	28,991
Bou Hajla	690	70,589	72,371
Chebika	513	33,889	35,308
Echrarda	330	25,903	27,518
Haffouz	611	43,792	40,066
Hajeb El Ayoun	589	35,403	36,137
Kairouan North	251	83,794	96,781
Kairouan South	520	80,444	93,101
Nasrallah	685	37,112	33,789
Oueslatia	915	36,195	34,452
Sbikha	1,069	67,315	71,922

Twelve municipalities are included within Kairouan Governorate:

Nature reserves

Aïn Chrichira

Governors

A historical list of Governors of Bizerte Governorate since the independence in 1956:

1956–1964: Amor Chachia
1964: Mohsen Bel Aljia
1964–1969: Mongi Fekih
1969–1970: Amor Msadek
1970–1972: Slim Aloulou
1972–1978: Tahar Boussemma
1978–1979: Hédi Alaya
1979–1981: Béchir Lahmidi
1981–1982: Abdessalem Ben Ammar
1982–1984: Chédli Neffati
1984–1987: Khaled Guezmir
1987–1988: Rafik Belhaj Kacem
1988–1991: Kamel Haj Sassi
1991–1992: Salem Mekki
1992–1993: Noureddine Hafsi
1993–1994: Salah Jouini
1994–2000: Jamel Bouslimi
2000–2001: Habib Ben Gamra
2001–2004: Habib Aoual
2004–2007: Néjib Barkallah
2007–2011: Yassine Barbouche
2011–2011: Abdeljelil Ben Hassen
2011–2012: Mohamed Sahraoui
2012–2013: Abdelmajid Laghouen
2013–2014: Abdennaser Ellafi
2014–2015: Mohsen Mansouri
2015–2016: Chokri Belhassen
2016–2017: Taoufik Ouertani
2017–2019: Mounir Hamdi
2019–2023: Mohamed Bourguiba
Since 2024: Dhaker Bargaoui