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Libya (Arabic: ليبيا ‎ Lībiyā pronunciation (help·info); Libyan vernacular: Lībya pronunciation (help·info); Amazigh: ), officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ( الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الإشتراكية العظمى ‎ Al-Jamāhīriyyah al-ʿArabiyyah al-Lībiyyah aš-Šaʿbiyyah...

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Tripoli

Tripoli (Arabic: طرابلس Ṭarābulus pronunciation (help·info)- also طرابلس الغرب Ṭarā-bu-lus al-Gharb Libyan vernacular: Ṭrābləs pronunciation (help·info); derived from the word for "three cities" in Greek: Τρίπολις Tripolis) is the largest and...

Area:

400 km² (154 mi² )

Time zone(s):

Eastern European Time

Surt

Surt (or Sirte) (Arabic: سرت, pronunciation (help·info)) is one of the districts of Libya, which lies in the north of the country and borders the Gulf of Sidra. Its capital is the city of Surt. Al-Tahadi University is located in Surt. Surt District...

Area:

77,660 km² (29985 mi² )

Benghazi

Benghazi or Bengasi (Arabic بنغازي (help·info), transliterated as Binġāzī; Turkish: Bingazi) is the second largest city in Libya and the main city (or capital) of the Cyrenaica region (or ex-Province). It is also a district of Libya of the wider...

Tobruk

Tobruk or Tubruq (Arabic: طبرق‎; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Ţubruq, Tobruck ) is a city , seaport, and peninsula in northeastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, in North Africa. It is the capital of Al Butnan District (formerly...

Ajdabiya

Ajdabiya (Arabic: إجدابيا‎) was one of the districts of Libya. It lay in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital was Ajdabiya. As of 2007 it was subsumed within the enlarged Al Wahat District. When Ajdabiya District was in existence from...

Al 'Aziziyah

Al 'Aziziyah or El Azizia (Arabic: العزيزية‎) is a city in and capital of Al Jfara District in northwestern Libya, 55 kilometres (34 mi) southwest of Tripoli. Prior to 2001 it was in Al 'Aziziyah District and its capital. Al 'Aziziyah is a major...

Al Fatih

Al Fatih or Al Fatah (Arabic: الفاتح ‎) was one of the districts (baladiyat) of Libya in the northeastern part of the country from 1983-1988. Its capital was Al Marj. When Al Fatih ceased to exist in 1988 some of its territory became the smaller...

Al Jabal al Akhdar

Al Jabal al Akhdar (Arabic: الجبل الأخضر ‎, meaning The Green Mountains) is one of the districts of Libya. It lies in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Al Bayda. In its territory, close to the city of Shahhat, can be found the remains of...

Area:

7,800 km² (3012 mi² )

Al Jufrah

Al Jufrah (Arabic: الجفرة‎) is one of the districts of Libya. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital is Houn. Al Jufrah was originally one of the 25 Baladiyat in the administrative sistem of Libya established in 1988. In 2001 It became a...

Area:

117,410 km² (45332.3 mi² )

Al Khums

Al Khums District (Arabic: الخمس ‎) was a district of Libya from 1983 to 1995. It lay in the northwest of the country, on the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital was Al Khums. It is notable for the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna which is 120 km east...

Al Kufrah

Al Kufrah (Arabic: الكفرة ‎), also spelled Cufra is one of the districts of Libya. Its capital is Al Jawf. There is a very large oil refinery near the capital. Al Kufrah's location in Libya's southeast places it on the country's border with Egypt,...

Area:

483,510 km² (186684 mi² )

An Nuqat al Khams

An Nuqat al Khams (Arabic: النقاط الخمس‎) is one of the districts of Libya. It is in the northwest of the country, in what had been the historical region of Tripolitania. Its capital is Zuwarah. With the creation of the shabiyah system, An Nuqat al...

Area:

5,250 km² (2027 mi² )

Ash Shati'

Ash Shati (Arabic: الشاطئ‎) is one of the municipalities of Libya. It is in the west of the country. Its capital is Birak.

Awbari

Awbari (Arabic: أوباري‎) is a city in Libya, in the district of Wadi Al Hayaa. It was the capital of the former baladiyah (district) called Awbari, in the southwest of the country.

Az Zawiyah Municipality

Az Zawiyah District (Arabic: شعبية الزاوية‎; transliterated: Sha'biyat az-Zawiyah) is one of the districts in Libya. It is located in the north-western part of the country, in what had been the historical region of Tripolitania. Its capital is Az...

Area:

2,890 km² (1116 mi² )

Birak

Brak (Arabic: براك‎) is a town in Wadi Al Shatii District in west-central Libya. It is the administrative center of the district. The town has a population of 43,100 (As of 2004) and is home to a technical college of Sebha University. The technical...

Ghadamis

Ghadamis (Arabic: غدامس, Libyan vernacular: ġdāməs) was a districts of Libya until 2007. Its territory is now part of Nalut District. It was in the northwest of the country with its capital at Ghadames. To the west, Ghadamis bordered the following...

Gharyan

Gharyan or Garian (Arabic: [غريان]‎) was one of the districts of Libya. It was located in the northwest part of the country and its capital was Gharyan. Under the 2007 reorganization of districts, it became part of Al Jabal al Gharbi District. Prior...

Misurata

Misurata (Arabic: مصراته‎) is a city in Misurata District in northwestern Libya, situated 210 km to the east of Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast near Cape Misurata. With a population of about 650,000 in 2007, Misurata is the third largest city in...

Murzuq

Murzuq (Arabic: مرزق‎) is one of the districts of Libya. It is in the south of the country. Its capital is Murzuk. The city was occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1578 and served as the capital of Fezzan off and on until the Ottomans ceded Libya to...

Area:

349,790 km² (135055 mi² )

Sabha

Sabha (Arabic: سبها‎) is one of the districts of Libya. It is located in the center of the country. The capital is Sabha with a population of 130,000. Sabha has one small domestic airport. Sabha town is the most important city of southern Libya. The...

Area:

15,330 km² (5918.9 mi² )

Sawfajjin

Sawfajjin (Arabic: سوفاجين‎) was one of the baladiyat (districts) of Libya from 1983 to 1995. It was in the north of the country with its capital at Bani Walid.

Tarhunah

Tarhunah (Arabic: ترهونة‎) is one of the former districts (baladiyat) of Libya from 1983 to 1995. It is in the north of the country. Tarhunah was brought to international attention in the 1990s, when it was believed that an underground chemical...

Tubruq Municipality

Al Butnan (Arabic: البطنان‎), Tubruq or Tokbruk (Arabic: طبرق‎), District is one of the districts in the north-east of Libya in Northern Africa. Its capital is Tobruk. It was renamed from Tubruq to Al Butnan in the 1995 administrative reorganization...

Yafran

Yafran (Arabic: يفرن‎) was one of the districts of Libya. It was located in the northwest part of the country and its capital was Yifrin. Under the 2007 reorganization of districts, it became part of Al Jabal al Gharbi District. Prior to 2007 Yafran...

Zlitan

Zlitan (Arabic: زلتان‎) was one of the districts (baladiyah) of Libya from 1983 to 1995. It lay in the northwestern part of the country, on the Mediterranean coast. In 1995 most of the district was included as part of Misratah District, where it...

Asbi'ah

Asbi'ah (Arabic: إسبيعة‎)is a town in Libya located approximately 28 miles (45 kilometers) south of Tripoli, the country's capital. Situated in a transitional steppe zone on the northern fringe of the Sahara Desert, Asbi'ah is 10 miles (16...

Seba Oasis

Seba Oasis was the test site of the OTRAG rockets at 27°02′N 14°26′E / 27.033°N 14.433°E / 27.033; 14.433 in Libya, after launching was no longer possible in Shaba North in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). In Seba Oasis on March 11981 an...

Ubari

Ubari is an oasis city in southwestern Libya, in the Targa valley. It lies between the Messak Sattafat plateau and Idhan Ubari sand dunes and lakes. The oasis is the second centre after Ghat for Kel Ajjer Tuareg. Neighbouring villages include Germa,...

Ghat

Ghat (Arabic: غات‎) is a city in the District of Ghat in remote south-western Libya. In historical times, Ghat was a major terminal point on the Trans-Saharan trade route. It was a stronghold for the Kel Ajjer Tuareg federation until 1913 when the...

Sabha

Sabha (Arabic: سبها‎) is a city in southwestern Libya with a population of 130,000. It was historically the capital of the Fezzan region and is now capital of the Sabha District. Sabha is built on a plain sand area next to a picturesque lake,...

Murzuk

Murzuk, Marzuq or Murzuq (Arabic: مرزق‎) is an oasis and town in south west Libya, and one of the main settlements of the Murzuq district. It lies on the northern edge of the Murzuq Desert, a desert of great sandy dunes. The town developed around...

Souluk

Souluk (Arabic: سولوك‎) is a small village in Libya, about 50 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi on the Gulf of Sidra. It was the site of an Italian concentration camp of the nomadic tribes that lived in Eastern Libya. On September 16, 1931...

Zuwarah

Zuwarah (Arabic: زوارة‎, Berber Tamurt n Wat Willul "the Town of the At-Willul") is a port city in northwestern Libya, with a population of 45,000. It is situated 68 miles west of Tripoli and 37 miles from the Tunisian border. It is the capital of...

Zaltan

Zaltan or Zelten (Arabic: زلطن‎) is a city in the district of An Nuqat al Khams of northwestern Libya. The city, which has a population of around 17,700 (2009), is on the Mediterranean coast. It is located around 90 miles west of Tripoli. The town...

Al Bayda'

Az Zawiya Al Bayda' (also transliterated as Al-Baidhah, El-Beda or Beida) (Arabic: البيضاء‎), and was known Beda Littoria under the Italian occupation, is a city in northeast Libya, 200 km east of Benghazi. Initially known as Sidi Rafaa'. After the...

Ghadames

Ghadames or Ghadamis (Arabic: غدامس‎, Berber: ghdams / ɛadēməs; Libyan vernacular: ġdāməs) is an oasis town in the west of Libya. It lies roughly 549 km in the southwest of Tripoli, near the borders with Algeria and Tunisia. The oasis has a...

Msallata

Msallata (also Al Qasabat, Cussabat and El-Gusbát) is a city in the northwestern part of Libya, in Al Murgub District. It has a population of nearly 55,000, and was historically a center of Islamic studies. It is also known for olive tree farming...

Ptolemais

Ptolemais or Ptolemaida was one of the ancient capitals of Cyrenaica. It was probably named after Ptolemy III Euergetes. Its Latin name in Roman times was Tolmeta, from which the modern Libyan town of Tolmeitha (Arabic طلميثة) derives its name.. The...

Beda Fomm

Beda Fomm is a small coastal town in southwestern Cyrenaica, Libya located between the much larger port city Bengazi to its north and the larger town of El Agheila further to the southwest. Beda Fomm is known mainly for being the site of the final...

El Agheila

El Agheila (Arabic: العقيلة‎) is a coastal city at the bottom of the Gulf of Sidra in far western Cyrenaica, Libya. It is currently known as Al-‘Uqaylah, and was the capital of the former District of the same name, then it was in Ajdabiya District,...

Tripoli International Airport

Tripoli International Airport (IATA: TIP, ICAO: HLLT) (Arabic: مطار طرابلس العالمي) serves Tripoli, Libya. It is operated by the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Bureau of Libya and is the nation's largest airport. Located in the town of Ben Ghashir...

Az Zawiyah

Az Zawiyah (Az or Ez or Al Zawiyah or Zawiya or Zawia or Zavia or Zauia, most commonly Az Zawiyah), (Arabic: الزاوية‎, transliteration: Az Zāwiyah), (sometimes called Az Zawiyah Al Gharbiyah, الزاوية الغربية ), is a city of northwestern Libya...

Djebel Al Awaynat

Djebel Al Awaynat (Arabic: جبل العوينات‎) is a mountain on border of Libya, Egypt and Sudan. It reaches a height of 1,898 metres on the Sudan side of the mountain. However, most of the mountain is in Libya where the town of Al Awaynat lies at the...

Kufra

Kufra (also spelled Cufra or Khofra) is an oasis in Southeastern Libya that played a minor role in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. It is in a particularly isolated location not only because it is in the middle of the Sahara Desert but...

Al Awaynat

Al Awaynat (Arabic: العوينات‎) is a small town located in the Sahara Desert in Libya. It lies at the entrance of Djebel Al Akakus.

Tolmeitha

Tolmeitha, Tolometa, or Tolmeita (Arabic طلميثة) is a small town in northeastern Libya, some 110 km (70 m) east of Benghazi. Its name appears to be derived, through the Latin Tolmeta, from the Greek name of the classical city whose ruins are nearby,...

Al Marj

El-Marj (Arabic المرج meaning the meadows) is an administrative division (shabiyah or district) of northeastern Libya, lying on the Mediterranean Sea coast. Its administrative seat is the city of El Marj, which was formerly known as Barce. El-Marj...

Area:

10,000 km² (3861 mi² )

Nalut

Nalut (sometimes Lalút) (Arabic: نالوت‎) is the capital of Nalut District in Libya and is home to a Berber granary and community. It lies approximately half way between Tripoli and Ghadames at the western end of the Nafusa Mountains coastal range....

Al Ajaylat

Al Ajaylat (Arabic: العجيلات‎) is the name of a region and small city located in Baladiyat An Nuqat al Khams, Libya with an estimated population of about 4,878. It is located roughly 80 kilometers west of Tripoli, Libya. Alternates names: Agelat, Al...

Al-Jaghbub

Al-Jaghbub (Arabic: الجغبوب‎) is a remote desert oasis in the eastern Libyan Desert. It is actually closer to the Egyptian town of Siwa than to any Libyan town of note. The oasis is located in Al Butnan District and is the administrative seat of the...

Apollonia

Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial centre in the southern Mediterranean. It served as the harbour of Cyrene, 20 km (12 miles) to the southwest. The Greek geographer and...

Al Jawf

Al Jawf is a city in southeastern Libya, the capital of the Al Kufrah municipality in Libya. The city is located at 24°13′N 23°18′E / 24.217°N 23.3°E / 24.217; 23.3 with an elevation 1,254 feet (382.2 m) above sea level. In a 1984 census the city...

Al Murgub

Al Murgub (sometimes Al Marqab, Arabic: المرقب‎) is one of the districts of Libya. According to the 2006 census, the population was 432,202. The main city is Al Khums. The widely visited UNESCO World Heritage Site of Leptis Magna is also located in...