Sfax is the second largest city of Tunisia, housing around 400, 000. Tunisians in general consider people from Sfax as excellent merchants and as more hardworking than Tunisians in general. And the University of Sfax is better than the two of Tunis.

Sfax is located roughly halfway the east coast of Tunisia, just opposite the Kerkennah islands. With a population of about half a million people Sfax is the second city of the country after Tunis.