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"(6362) Tunis is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on May 19, 1979 by the Danish astronomer Richard Martin West at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile (IAU code 809). An unconfirmed sighting of the asteroid had already taken place on January 25, 1971 with the provisional designation 1971 BC1 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj.
The mean diameter of (6362) Tunis is 39.58 (± 3.5) km, the surface is darker with an albedo of 0.0373 (± 0.008) than any planetary surface in the solar system on average.
According to the SMASS classification (Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel near (6362) Tunis also assumed a dark surface, so it could be , roughly speaking, to be a C-asteroid.
(6362) Tunis was named after Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, on May 9, 2001 at the suggestion of Richard Martin West. On November 7, 2001, Richard Martin West received the Order Grand Officier de l'Ordre de la République from the Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali for being named."
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"Tunis is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the fourth-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca, Algiers and Tripoli) and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Situated on a large Mediterranean Sea gulf (the Gulf of Tunis), behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (?alq il-Wad), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At its core lies its ancient medina, a World Heritage Site. East of the medina through the Sea Gate (also known as the Bab el Bhar and the Porte de France) begins the modern city, or Ville Nouvelle, traversed by the grand Avenue Habib Bourguiba (often referred to by media and travel guides as "the Tunisian Champs-Élysées"), where the colonial-era buildings provide a clear contrast to smaller, older structures. Further east by the sea lie the suburbs of Carthage, La Marsa, and Sidi Bou Said. As the capital of the country, Tunis is the focus of Tunisian political and administrative life and also the center of the country's commercial and cultural activities."