Official Name: | Fériana |
Native Name: | فريانة |
Settlement Type: | Commune and town |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Tunisia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | ![]() |
Subdivision Name1: | Kasserine Governorate |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2014 |
Population Total: | 36504 |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Coordinates: | 34.95°N 8.5667°W |
Postal Code: | 1240 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Arab |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Population Blank2: | Islam |
Fériana (ar|فريانة) is a town and commune in the Kasserine Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 26,504.[1] It is 35 km from Kasserine and 75 from Gafsa.
Located in the southern part of the Tunisian ridge, at 745 meters of altitude, it is one of the highest cities of Tunisia. It has a semi-arid climate in cool winter and receives about 350 millimeters of rain per year. Vegetation is scarce except a few steppes of alfa (spartum lygum) and vestiges of an Aleppo pine forest.