The population as of January 2013 was estimated at 21,277,[2] mostly attracting the more wealthy residents.[3]
The Carthage Palace (the Tunisian presidential palace) is located on the coast.[4]
Carthage has six train stations of the TGM line between Le Kram and Sidi Bou Said:
Carthage Salammbo (named for the ancient children's cemetery where it stands), Carthage Byrsa (named for Byrsa hill), Carthage Dermech (Dermèche), Carthage Hannibal (named for Hannibal), Carthage Présidence (named for the Presidential Palace) and Carthage Amilcar (named for Hamilcar).
In the 1950s, the Lycée Français de Carthage was established to serve French families in Carthage. In 1961, it was given to the Tunisian government as a part of the Independence of Tunisia, so the nearby Collège Maurice Cailloux in La Marsa, previously an annex of the Lycée Français de Carthage, was renamed to the Lycée Français de La Marsa and began serving the lycée level. It is currently the Lycée Gustave Flaubert.[8]
After Tunisian independence in 1956, the Tunis conurbation gradually extended around the airport, and Carthage is now a suburb of Tunis.[9][10]
In February 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage, signed a symbolic treaty "officially" ending the conflict between their cities, which had been supposedly extended by the lack of a peace treaty for more than 2,100 years.[11]
The office of mayor was held by Chedli Klibi from 1963 to 1990, by Fouad Mebazaa from 1995 to 1998 and by Sami Tarzi from 2003 to 2011, and by Azedine Beschaouch from 2011.[12]
The monumental Malik ibn Anas mosque
(also El Abidine mosque; (جامع مالك بن أنس (سابقا جامع العابدين) )), built on an area of three hectares on Odéon hill, was inaugurated in 2003.[13]
«La mosquée El Abidine, Carthage», Architecture méditerranéenne, hors-série «La Tunisie moderne: deux décennies de transformations», novembre 2007, p. 51-57