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Full name: The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Location: North Africa
Borders: North:
Mediterranean Seat, West: Algeria 982 km and Tunisia 459 km, East: Egypt
1,115 km, South Chad 1,055 km and Niger 354 km, Southeast: Sudan 383 km,
Population: 5,900,754
GDP Per Capita: $5,050.12
Capital: Tripoli (Tarabulus)
Largest City with
Population: Tripoli - 495,781
Area: 1.77 million sq km
(685,524 square miles)
Major language: Arabic
Major religion: Islam
Life expectancy: 71 years
(men), 76 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Libyan
Dinar (LD) = 1,000 Dirhams
Main exports: Crude oil,
petroleum products, natural gas
GNI per capita: US $5,530
(World Bank, 2006)
Internet domain: .Ly
International dialing code:
+218
Head of state: Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi
Prime minister: Baghdadi
Mahmudi
Finance minister: Ahmed
Munsi
Foreign minister:
Abd-al-Rahman Muhammad Shalqam
Government Sites:
General People's Congress
(in Arabic)
GPC for Higher Education
(in Arabic)
Statistical information Visit: http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ly-libya
For more information about Libya:
Refer to Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya |
