Editing Tunis (section)

=== Suburbs ===
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; font-size:smaller;"
|-
! Municipality !! Population (2004) 
|-
| [[Ettadhamen-Mnihla]]
| {{Formatnum:118487}}
|-
| [[Ariana, Tunisia|Ariana]]
| {{Formatnum:97687}}
|-
| [[La Soukra]]
| {{Formatnum:89151}}
|-
| [[El Mourouj]]
| {{Formatnum:81986}}
|-
| [[La Marsa]]
| {{Formatnum:77890}}
|-
| [[Douar Hicher]]
| {{Formatnum:75844}}
|-
| [[Ben Arous]]
| {{Formatnum:74932}}
|-
| [[Mohamedia-Fouchana]]
| {{Formatnum:74620}}
|-
| [[Le Bardo]]
| {{Formatnum:70244}}
|-
| [[Le Kram]]
| {{Formatnum:58152}}
|-
| [[Oued Ellil]]
| {{Formatnum:47614}}
|-
| [[Radès]]
| {{Formatnum:44857}}
|-
| [[Raoued]]
| {{Formatnum:53911}}
|-
| [[Hammam Lif]]
| {{Formatnum:38401}}
|-
| [[La Goulette]]
| {{Formatnum:28407}}
|-
| [[Carthage (municipality)|Carthage]]
| {{Formatnum:28407}}
|-
| [[La Manouba]]
| {{Formatnum:26666}}
|-
| [[Mornag]]
| {{Formatnum:26406}}
|-
| [[Djedeida]]
| {{Formatnum:24746}}
|-
| [[Den Den]]
| {{Formatnum:24732}}
|-
| [[Tebourba]]
| {{Formatnum:24175}}
|-
| [[Mégrine]]
| {{Formatnum:24031}}
|-
| [[Kalâat el-Andalous]]
| {{Formatnum:15313}}
|-
| [[Mornaguia]]
| {{Formatnum:13382}}
|-
| [[Sidi Thabet]]
| {{Formatnum:8909}}
|-
| [[Sidi Bou Saïd]]
| {{Formatnum:4793}}
|-
| [[El Battan]]
| {{Formatnum:5761}}
|-
| [[Borj El Amri]]
| {{Formatnum:5556}}
|-
|  '''Total'''
| '''{{Formatnum:1265060}}'''
|-
|colspan="2"| ''Sources:'' [[National Institute of Statistics (Tunisia)|National Institute of Statistics]]<ref name="ins">{{cite web| url= http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24411&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer |title= Census of 2004 information| language= fr |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131207015451/http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24411&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer |archive-date=2013-12-07 |publisher= [[National Institute of Statistics (Tunisia)|National Institute of Statistics]]| place= Tunisia| website= ins.nat.tn| date= }}</ref>
|}

After World War II, suburbs began to rapidly spring up on the outskirts of Tunis. These form a large percentage of the population of the Tunis metropolitan area. It grew from 27% of the total population in 1956, to 37% in 1975 and 50% in 2006.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}