Recorded 58 ยฐC at Al Aziziyah in 1922, long held as the highest air temperature ever measured.
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Libya
State of Libya ยท ููุจูุง
Africa
ยท Northern Africa
0Population
1.76Mkmยฒ of land
$7.69KGDP / person
TripoliCapital
- ISO codes
- LY ยท LBY
- Density
- 4 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Arabic
- Currency
- Libyan dinar (LYD)
- Dial code
- +218
- Internet domain
- .ly
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 26.6390ยฐ N, 18.0110ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Libyan
- UN region
- Northern Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $52.09B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 6
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By the numbers
How Libya stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
109th
of 242 ยท 0.09% of world population
Land area
18th
of 242 ยท 1.17% of world land
GDP per person
120th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
220th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Libya
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,777,452 people, the 109th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,133 of everyone alive.
Covers 1,759,540 kmยฒ, making it the 18th largest country here - about 7.3 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 4 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Tripoli, at 32.89ยฐ N, 13.18ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 2,189,000.
Shares land borders with 6 countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger and Sudan (and 1 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Tripoli.
The currency is the Libyan dinar (LYD, symbol ู.ุฏ).
The official language is Arabic.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Tripoli
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Tripoli
Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba
32.8925ยฐ N, 13.1800ยฐ E
2.19M
2
Banghazi
Benghazi
32.1187ยฐ N, 20.0648ยฐ E
1.18M
3
Misrata
Misratah
32.3800ยฐ N, 15.1000ยฐ E
386.12K
4
Zuwara
An Nuqat al Khams
32.9344ยฐ N, 12.0791ยฐ E
180.31K
5
Sabha
Sabha
27.0333ยฐ N, 14.4333ยฐ E
100.25K
6
Al Jawf
Al Kufrah
24.2000ยฐ N, 23.2900ยฐ E
24.13K
7
Tmassa
Murzuq
26.3666ยฐ N, 15.8000ยฐ E
500
Land neighbours
6 countries share a border with Libya.