Fériana
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Fériana ({{langx|ar|فريانة}}) is a town and commune in the Kasserine Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 26,504.[http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24442&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035418/http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24442&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer |date=2015-09-24 }} 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.
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