Tunisia is the easternmost and smallest of the three States situated along the Atlas Mountains. It is also one of the Maghreb countries, like Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria and Libya. Its capital, eccentric to the rest of the country is Tunis, in the north

Although the majority (about 98%) of modern Tunisians speak Arabic and Arab culture is identified, it would be wrong to infer a proportional ethnic origin. In contrast, genetic analysis conducted between Arabic-speaking populations berberofoneand in Tunisia and North Africa North Africa showed a basic unity in which external contributions are negligible, so strictly speaking, the mass of the population is an ethnic Berber although Arabized.
Another layer of population lies in the country is of Jewish origin, mostly concentrated in Tunis and Djerba, and muchreduced from the time when the country gained independence from France