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On 2 August 1995, Libya reorganized into thirteen districts . In 1998 this was increased to 26 shabiyat districts. In 2001 it was increased to thirty-two districts plus three administrative regions. Finally in 2007 it was reduced to twenty-two districts. For historical evolution see also: Subdivisions of Libya.
Subdivisions of Libya have varied significantly over the last two centuries. Initially Libya under Ottoman and Italian control was organized into three to four provinces, then into three governorates ( muhafazah ) and after World War II into twenty-five districts ( baladiyah ).
This is a list of the three historical regions of Libya by Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022. [1] Rank Region HDI (2022)
Libya comprises three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million km 2 (700,000 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and the 16th-largest in the world. Libya claims 32,000 square kilometres of southeastern Algeria, south of the Libyan town of Ghat.
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] 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, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
Former province boundaries in modern Libya. The three geographic Regions of Libya — boundaries based on its three former divisions: the Ottoman—Italian colonial provinces and the post-independence (1951-1963) governorates . Cyrenaica in eastern Libya; Tripolitania in northwestern Libya; Fezzan in southwestern Libya
Demographics of Libya is the demography of ... the major tribal groups of Libya, by region, were as follows: [31] Tripolitania: alawana-Souk El Joma'a, AL ...
The Provinces of Libya were prescribed in 1934, during the last period of colonial Italian Libya, and continued through post-independence Libya until 1963 when the Governorates system was instituted. The three main provinces of the country follow the original colonial divisions of Italian Libya: Tripolitania province , Cyrenaica province and ...