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Capital
(and largest city) Tripoli
32°54′N, 13°11′E

Official languages Arabic

Demonym Libyan

Government Military dictatorship Khakistocracy Jamahiriya

- Leader and Guide of the Revolution Muammar al-Gaddafi

- Secretary General of the General People’s Congress Miftah Muhammed K’eba

- Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi Independence

- Relinquished by Italy 10 February 1947

- From France / United Kingdom

- Under United Nations Trusteeship 24 December 1951
- Area – Total 1,759,540 km² (17th) 679,359 sq mi

- Water (%) Negligible

- Population – estimate 6,036,914 (105th)

- 2006 census 5,670,688

- Density 3.2/km² (218th) 8.4/sq mi GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate

- Total $78.79 billion (67th)

- Per capita $13,100 (58th)

- HDI (2005) ▲0.818 (High) (56th)

- Currency Dinar (LYD)

- Time zone EET (UTC+2)

- Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+2)

- Internet TLD .ly

- Calling code +218

- Includes 350,000 foreigners; Libyan 2006 census, accessed September 15, 2006

Source : wikipedia.org