20 November 2017 | Author/Destination: North Africa / Nordafrika | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks
Reading Time: 11 minutesAncient Roman Leptis Magna Theatre east of Khums © David Gunn
Libya is a country in the
Maghreb region of
North Africa, bordered by the
Mediterranean Sea to the north,
Egypt to the east,
Sudan to the southeast,
Chad and
Niger to the south and
Algeria and
Tunisia to the west. The country is made of three historical regions,
Tripolitania,
Fezzan and
Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the
fourth largest country in Africa, and is the
16th largest country in the world. Libya has the 10th-largest
proven oil reserves of any country in the world. The largest city and capital,
Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya’s six million people. The other large city is
Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.
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