Official Name: | Fouchana |
Other Name: | فوشانة |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Tunisia |
Subdivision Name1: | Ben Arous Governorate |
Subdivision Type2: | Delegation(s) |
Subdivision Name2: | Fouchana |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Coordinates: | 36.7°N 20°W |
Postal Code: | 2082 |
Fouchana is a town in Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia. Governed by the joint municipality of Mohamedia-Fouchana, it is also the seat of an governoral delegation.
Fouchana (فوشانة) is located at 36°42′09.31″N, 10°09′25.9″E about ten kilometers south of the capital, Tunis. Associated with Mohamedia, it forms a municipality with 106 167 inhabitants in 2014.
It is an important industrial center comprising three industrial zones (M'ghira 1, 2 and 3). At the level of the delegation of which it is the administrative center, industrial employment accounts for half of total employment. According to the development project of the Greater Tunis, the city will benefit from a fast railway line by the line Tunis-Fouchana (line C).