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Libya (Arabic: ‏ليبيا‎ Lībyā) 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.

With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa by area, and the 17th largest in the world. The largest city, Tripoli, is home to 1.7 million of Libya's 6.4 million people. The three traditional parts of the country are Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica.

In 2009 Libya had the highest HDI in Africa and the fourth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa, behind Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 17th-highest petroleum production.

As a result of the civil war of February to October 2011, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, which had at that time been in existence for 34 years, collapsed and Libya entered a period of governance by a transitional administration called the National Transitional Council. The NTC has stated its intention to oversee the first phase of a transition to constitutional democracy, after which it claims it will dissolve in favor of a representative legislature.

 

Libya is fourth in size among the countries of Africa and seventeenth among the countries of the world. Its coastline lies between Egypt and Tunisia. Although the oil discoveries of the 1960s have brought it immense petroleum wealth, at the time of its independence it was an extremely poor desert state whose only important physical asset appeared to be its strategic location at the midpoint of Africa's northern rim. It lay within easy reach of the major European nations and linked the Arab countries of North Africa with those of the Middle East, facts that throughout history had made its urban centers bustling crossroads rather than isolated backwaters without external social influences. Consequently, an immense social gap developed between the cities, cosmopolitan and peopled largely by foreigners, and the desert hinterland, where tribal chieftains ruled in isolation and where social change was minimal.

 

Independence:

Relinquished by Italy February 10, 1947

- from France/UK under UN Trusteeship, December 24, 1951

 

Area:

1.759.540 km2

 

Inhabitants:

5.760.000

 

Languages:

Arabic, Libyan Spoken [ayl] 4,200,000 in Libya (1995). Population total all countries: 4,505,000. Especially in the northern half of Libya. Also spoken in Egypt, Niger. Alternate names: Libyan Vernacular Arabic, Sulaimitian Arabic. Dialects: Tripolitanian Arabic, Southern Libyan Arabic, Eastern Libyan Arabic. In the west, it is similar to the Bedouin Arabic of southern Tunisia. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

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Arabic, Standard [arb] Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

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Awjilah [auj] 3,000 (2000). Women are monolingual. Cyrenaica, eastern Libya. Alternate names: Aujila, Augila, Aoudjila. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Eastern, Awjila-Sokna

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Domari [rmt] 31,738 in Libya (2000 WCD). Dialects: Helebi. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Dom

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Ghadamès [gha] 2,000 in Libya. Population total all countries: 4,000. Ghadamès, a small oasis near the Algeria-Tunisia border. Also spoken in Tunisia. Dialects: Ayt Waziten, Elt Ulid. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Zenati, East

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Libyan Sign Language [lbs] Classification: Deaf sign language

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Nafusi [jbn] 141,000 in Libya (1998). Population total all countries: 167,000. Tripolitania, western Libya, isolated area around the towns of Nalut and Yafran, Jabal Nafusah Region, coastal area around Zuara, west of Tripoli. Also spoken in Tunisia. Alternate names: Djerbi, Nefusi, Jabal Nafusi, Jebel Nefusi, Jbel Nafusi. Dialects: Zuara (Zouara, Zuwarah, Zwara, Zuraa), Tamezret (Duwinna), Jerbi (Jerba). Zuara dialect well known in Jebel Nafusa area and in Jerba Tunisia. Some visit Zuara, but not vice versa. Dialect of Matmata and Tatawine area less well understood by speakers in Jerba or Zuara. Speakers in Zuara and Jebel areas understand Jerba stories well. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Zenati, East

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Sawknah [swn] 5,448 (2000 WCD). Tripolitania. Alternate names: Sokna. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Eastern, Awjila-Sokna

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Tamahaq, Tahaggart [thv] 17,000 in Libya (1993 Johnstone). The Hoggar dialect is in the south Hoggar (Ajjer) Mountain area around Tamanrasset and south into Niger. The Ghat dialect is in southeast Algeria around Ganet and west Libyan oases around Ghat. Alternate names: Tamashekin, Tourage, Tomachek, Tamachek, Tuareg, Toureg. Dialects: Hoggar (Ahaggaren, Ajjer, Tahaggart), Ghat (Ganet, Djanet). Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Tamasheq, Northern

 

Capital city:

Tripoli

 

Meaning country name:

After an ancient Berber tribe called Libyans by the Greeks and Rbw by the Egyptians. Up to and until the country's independence, the term "Libya" generally applied only to the vast desert interposed between the Tripolitanian Lowland and the Fazzan plateau (to the west) and Egypt's Nile river valley (to the east). With "Tripoli" the name of new country's capital and the old northeastern regional name 'Cyrenaica' having passed into obsolescence, "Libya" became the convenient name for the country, despite the fact that much of the Libyan desert actually forms part of Egyptian territory.

 

Description Flag:

The Libyan Independence Flag or Flag of Libya was the original flag of the Kingdom of Libya introduced in 1951 following the creation of the Libyan state in the post World War II period. It was originally created by Omar Faiek Shennib and approved by King Idris Al Senussi who comprised the UN delegation representing the regions of Cyrenaica, Fezzan and Tripolitania at UN discussions which resulted in a unified Libya in 1951.

 

This flag was adopted by the National Transitional Council and anti-Gaddafi forces and formally reclaimed as the country's national flag in the Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration issued on 3 August 2011, as a result of the Fall of Tripoli from the Gaddafi government in the Libyan civil war in August 2011.

 

National Anthem; Lybia, Lybia, Lybia

 

Libya, Libya, Libya (also known as Ya Beladi, "Oh my country!"), composed by Mohammed Abdel Wahab, is the national anthem of Libya. It was originally the national anthem from independence in 1951 until 1969 when King Idris I was overthrown by a Coup d'état led by Muammar Gaddafi.Gaddafi adopted the marching song Allahu Akbar as the national anthem of the newly proclaimed Libyan Arab Republic.In 2011 It was readopted as national anthem by the National Transitional Council.

 

Arabic

 

يا بلادي بجهادي وجلادي

ادفعي كيد الأعادي و العوادي

واسلمي

اسلمي طول المدي إننا نحن الفدا

ليبيا ليبيا ليبيا

 

 

يا بلادي أنت ميراث الجدود

لارعى الله يداً تمتد لك

فاسلمي، إنا -على الدهر- جنود

لا نبالي إن سلمت من هلك

وخذي منا وثيقات العهود

إننا يا ليبيا لن نخذلك

لن نعود للقيود قد تحررنا وحررنا الوطن

ليبيا ليبيا ليبيا

 

 

جرّد الأجداد عزماً مرهفاً

يوم ناداهم منادٍ للكفاح

ثم ساروا يحملون المصحفا

باليد الأولى، وبالأخرى سلاح

فإذا في الكون دين وصفا

وإذا العالم خير وصلاح

فالخلود للجدود إنهم قد شرفوا هذا الوطن

ليبيا ليبيا ليبيا

 

 

يا ابن ليبيا، يا ابن آساد الشرى

إننا للمجد والمجد والمجدُ لنا

مذ سرونا حمد القوم السرى

بارك الله لنا استقلالنا

فابتغوا العلياء شأواً في الورى

واستعدوا للوغى أشبالنا

للغلاب يا شباب إنما الدنيا كفاح للوطن

ليبيا ليبيا ليبيا

 

Transliteration

 

Ya Biladi Ya Biladi Bijihadi Wajiladi

 

Idfa'i Kaydal A'adi Wal'awadi Waslami

Islami Islami Islami Tulal Mada Innana Nahnul Fida

Libya Libya Libya.

 

 

Yabiladi Anti Mirathul Judud

La Ra'allahu Yadan Tamtaddu Lak

Faslami Inna 'Aladdahri Junud

La Nubali In Salimti Man Halak

Wakhudi Minna Wathiqatil 'Uhud

Innana Ya Libya Lan Nakhdilak

Lanna'ud Lil Quyud Qadd Taharrarna Waharrarnal Watan

Libya Libya Libya.

 

English

 

Oh my country! With my struggle and my patience

 

Drive off enemies and mishaps,

And survive!

Survive all through, we are your ransom

Libya, Libya, Libya!

 

 

Oh my country! You are the heritage of grandfathers,

May God cast off any hand that would harm you

Do survive! We are for ever your soldiers,

If you survive we care not who perishes.

To you we give solemn pledges

That we, Oh Libya, will never fail you.

We will never go back to fetters, we have been liberated,

and we have freed our home country

Libya, Libya, Libya.

 

Internet Page: www.gpc.gov.ly

www.libyan-tourism.org

www.tolibya.com

 

Libya in diferent languages

 

eng | fao | fin | ina | jav | lat | nor | que | sme | swa | tgl | zza: Libya

arg | ast | bre | cos | cym | eus | gla | glg | haw | ibo | ita | lld | mlg | oci | pol | roh | ron | rup | sot | spa | sqi | srd | tsn: Libia

bam | cor | dje | hat | mos | wol: Libi

cat | hun | por | tet: Líbia

ces | fra | jnf: Libye

deu | ltz | nds: Libyen / Libyen

frp | fur | nrm: Libie

hrv | lit | slv: Libija

afr | nld: Libië

dan | swe: Libyen

dsb | hsb: Libyska

ind | msa: Libya / ليبيا

kaa | uzb: Liviya / Ливия

kin | run: Libiya

mlt | szl: Libja

nbl | xho: iLibhiya

aze: Liviya / Ливија

bos: Libija / Либија

crh: Libiya / Либия

epo: Libio

est: Liibüa

fry: Lybje

gle: An Libia / An Libia

glv: Yn Leeb

hau: Libiya; Libya; Turabulus

isl: Lýbía; Líbía

kab: Libya / ⵍⵉⴱⵢⴰ

kmr: Lîvî / Ливи / لیڤی

kur: Lîbya / لیبیا

lav: Lībija

lin: Libîya

mol: Libia / Либия

mri: Rīpia

rmy: Libiya / लिबिया

scn: Libbia

slk: Líbya

slo: Libvia / Либвиа

smg: Lėbėjė

smo: Lipia

som: Liibiya

ton: Līpia

tuk: Liwiýa / Ливия

tur: Libya; Libi

vie: Li-bi

vol: Lübän

vor: Liibüä

wln: Libeye

zul: iLibiya

chu: Ливѵа (Livȳa)

alt | kir | kjh | kom | krc | kum | rus | tyv | udm: Ливия (Livija)

che | chv | mon | oss: Ливи (Livi)

abq: Ливия (Łivija)

bak: Ливия / Liviya

bel: Лівія / Livija; Лібія / Libija

bul: Либия (Libija)

chm: Ливий (Livij)

kaz: Ливия / Lïvïya / ليۆيا; Либия / Lïbïya / ليبيا

kbd: Ливие (Livie)

mkd: Либија (Libija)

srp: Либија / Libija

tat: Ливия / Liviä

tgk: Либия / لیبیه / Libija

ukr: Лівія (Livija)

ara: ليبيا (Lībiyā); لوبيا (Lūbiyā)

ckb: لیبیا / Lîbya

fas: لیبی / Libi

prs: لیبیا (Lībiyā)

pus: ليبيا (Lībiyā); لوبيا (Lūbiyā)

snd: لبيا (Libiyā)

uig: لىۋىيە / Liwiye / Либия

urd: لیبیا (Lībiyā); لبیا (Libiyā)

div: ލީބިޔާ (Lībiyā)

syr: ܠܘܒܐ (Lūbā); ܠܝܒܝܐ (Lībiyā)

heb: לוב (Lûṿ)

lad: ליביה / Libia

yid: ליביע (Libye)

amh: ሊቢያ (Libiya); ሊብያ (Libya)

ell: Λιβύη (Livýī)

hye: Լիբիա (Libia)

kat: ლიბია (Libia)

hin: लीबिया (Lībiyā); लिबिया (Libiyā)

ben: লিবিয়া (Libiyā)

pan: ਲੀਬੀਆ (Lībīā)

kan: ಲಿಬ್ಯ (Libya)

mal: ലിബിയ (Libiya)

tam: லிபியா (Lipiyā)

tel: లిబ్యా (Libiyā)

zho: 利比亞/利比亚 (Lìbǐyà)

yue: 利比亞/利比亚 (Leihbéinga)

jpn: リビア (Ribia)

kor: 리비아 (Libia)

bod: ལི་པི་ཡ་ (Li.pi.ya.); ལིའི་པི་ཡ་ (Li'i.pi.ya.)

mya: လစ္ဗ္ယား (Liʿbyà)

tha: ลิเบีย (Libiya)

khm: លីប៊ី (Lībī); លីប៊ីយ៉ា (Lībīyā)

 

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