Official name: Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jahamiriya
(The name Libya comes from Greek myth – it was a name of a nymph, whose name ancient Greeks used to call part of Africa already known to them at that time).
Location: North Africa
Area: 759 540 km2 (16th largest country in the world)
Population: 5 499 074
Capital city: Tripoli
Religion: Islam
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