Sakiet Ezzit is a city Tunisia of the northern suburbs of Sfax.

Attached administratively to the Governorship of Sfax, it is the center of a delegation of 72.481 inhabitants (2006) and constitutes a municipality of 44.886 inhabitants. The city itself shelters a population of 12.613 inhabitants.

She constitutes the municipality of Banlieue oldest (1957) and most important of the agglomeration of Sfax. Located at 7 kilometers of the center of Sfax, it profits from the only rail link of the agglomeration and developed road main axe on both sides crossing the agglomeration, the GP1, which connects Sfax to Tunis. It will also profit from the extension of the A1 of Me saken to Sfax which should be inaugurated fine 2007. It is the subject today of a project of improvement of land within the agglomeration sfaxienne intended to stop the very significant development of the “spontaneous habitat”. It is about the installation of the perimeter of land intervention of Sakiet Ezzit which relates to a space of 350 Hectare S located at 2 kilometers in the north of the center of the city, at El Ons, intended to arrange Logement S for 35.000 people (on one the third of the total surface area).

As its name indicates it, Sakiet Ezzit is a great center of transformation and of marketing of the Olive S. With Gremda, the governorship of Sfax ensures 40% of the national production indeed. Today, its activities evolve to the services. Thus, Sakiet Ezzit shelters the greatest center of visit automobile technique of the area with a rate turning around 100 daily controlled vehicles. Moreover, it has one of the 6 Technopole S of Tunisia, located in the district El Ons on a surface of 60 Hectare S, which will be in function at the end of 2007. It specializes in the Industrie of the Cuir and the Chaussure (Sfax producing 50% of the shoes in Tunisia).

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