Libya ( ;
Libyan vernacular: Lībya;
Amazigh: ), officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya ( ), is a country in
North Africa. Bordering the
Mediterranean Sea to the north, Libya lies between
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), 90% of which is desert, Libya is the fourth largest country in
Africa by area, and the 17th
largest in the world. The
capital,
Tripoli, is home to 1.7 million of Libya's 5.7 million people. The three traditional parts of the country are
Tripolitania, the
Fezzan and
Cyrenaica.
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