Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. With an area of almost 1.8 million km2 (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth-largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and the 16th-largest in the world. The country claims 32,000 square kilometres of southeastern Algeria, south of the Libyan town of Ghat. The capital and largest city is Tripoli, located in the northwest and containing over a million of Libya's seven million people.
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Where it is
Languages
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What it sells, and to whom
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Natural resources
Farms and fisheries
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- tomatoes
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Largest cities
| Tripoli capital | 1,302,947 |
| Benghazi | 757,490 |
| Misratah | 355,657 |
| Zliten | 203,790 |
| Al Khums | 201,943 |
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Climate and geography
Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior
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