Tunisia, located in northern Africa, shares land borders with Algeria and Libya. The country has a total area of 164,000 square kilometers (sq km) and over 1,300 km of coastline bordering the Mediterranean sea. The country is vulnerable to natural disasters, such as heavy rainfall, flash flooding, droughts, storms, sandstorms, and earthquakes. It has also been affected by sea-level rises that also pose a significant threat to the country’s coastline due to storm surges, inundation, and salinization, but also increasingly harmful storm surge. The increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are likely to lead to droughts, soil erosion, and desertification.
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