Skhira

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Skhira
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Location in Tunisia
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Country Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia
Governorate Sfax Governorate
Population (2014)
 • Total 34,673
Time zone CET (UTC1)

Skhira (Arabic: الصخيرة‎‎) is a coastal town in central-eastern Tunisia. It is located at around Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. It lies on the coast of the Gulf of Gabes. It has a large oil terminal for pipelines coming from the Tunisian and Algerian oilfields. The old village grew in the late nineteenth century as the centre of the export trade in esparto grass, used in the manufacture of paper.

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