Akouda is small town located a few kilometres north of Sousse

Sousse

Sousse is a city in Tunisia. Located 140 km south of the capital Tunis, the city has 173,047 inhabitants . Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea. The name may be of Berber origin: similar names are found in Libya and in...

, Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

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Administratively attached to the Sousse Governorate

Sousse Governorate

Sousse Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,621 km² and has a population of 544,000...

, it is the chief town of a delegation of the same name which in 2004 had 21,237 inhabitants, with 18,998 for the town itself. Set back from the coast, along the RN1, it is connected to the coast at Chott Meriem.

Notable people

• Salem Ben Hmida
  Salem Ben Hmida
  Salem Ben Hmida was a Tunisian poet. Born in Akouda, just north of Sousse, he studied at the University of Ez-Zitouna in 1947, he chaired the Sahelian cooperation within the Tunisian General Labour Union....
  
   -poet
• Fakhri El Ghezal  - photographer
• Abdesselem Knani -politician

((Ali ladhari)) -ophtalmologist
((Slah ladhari)) -pharmacist
((Noah ladhari)) -PHD in Law
((Ahmed Chahed)) -militant