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COUNTRY FACTS: LIBYA
Name(official): Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Name(short): Libya
Capital City: Tripoli
Location: Northern Africa. Click to enlarge map of libya
Map of Libya Libya is bordered to the north by the Mediterranean sea, Egypt to the east, Sudan in the south-east, Chad and Niger to the south, Algeria and Tunisia to the west
Coordinate: 25 00 N, 17 00 E
Independence:
  • 10 February 1947 (from Italy)
  • December 24; 1951 -(From UN trusteeship)
  • 1 September 1969 (Revolution Day)
President:
  • Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf - from 10 Aug. 2012 - (President of the General National Congress)
  • Abdurrahim el-Keib PM from 31 October 2011
  • Mohammed Ali Salim -(Acting President 9/8/2011 - 10/8/2012)
  • Mustafa Abdul-Jalil -(President 5/3/2011 - 8/8/2012)
  • Ali Tarhouni - (acting PM 23/10/2011 - 24/11/2011)
  • Mahmoud Jibril -(PM 5/3/2011 - 23/10/2011)
  • al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi - PM 05/03/2006 - 23/8/2011)
  • Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi 01/09/1969 - 20/10/2011
  • King Idris 1951 - 1 Sept; 1969
Type of Government: Jamahiriya defined by the govt. as "state of the masses" governed by the people through local councils.
Total Area: 1 759 540sq.km. (679,362 sq. mi.)
Population: 6,461,454 (July 2010 est. - CIA)
5,670,688 (2006 census)
People: Berbers and Arabs 97%, Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, Tunisians.
Religion: Sunni muslims 97%
Languages: arabic -primary language, English, French, Italian.
Literacy: 82.6%total, 92.4%male, 72%female (2003 est.)
Currency: Libyan dinar (1LYD =1000dirhams)
GDP(per capita): $13,800 (2010 est CIA)
$8 400 (2005 est.)
Arable Land: 1.03%
Agriculture: Wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus, vegetables, peanuts, soyabeans, cattles.
Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, gypsum.
Embassy in Japan: People's Bureau of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Chancery: 10-14, Daikanyama-cho, Shibuya-ku.
Post Code: 150-0034, Tel. 03-3477-0701/4
General Info:
International Phone Code: +218


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GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

31 municipalities (singular--"shabiya", plural--"shabiyat"): Butnan, Darnah, Gubba, Al Jabal al-Akhdar, Marj, Green Belt, Benghazi, Ajdabiya, Wahat, Kufra, Surt, Al Jufrah, Misurata, Murgub, Bani-waleed, Tarhuna and Msallata, Tripoli, Jfara, Zawiya, Subrata and Surman, An Nuqat al Khams, Gharyan, Mezda, Nalut, Ghdames, Yefren and Jadu, Wadi Alhaya, Ghat, Sabha, Wadi Shati, Murzuq.

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