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Libya - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | Libya, officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الإشتراكية ﺍﻟﻌﻆﻤﻰ is a country in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. |
 | | Libya remained part of their empire, although at times virtually autonomous, until Italy invaded in 1911 and, in the face of years of resistance, made Libya a colony. |
 | | Libya has a small population within its large territory, with a population density of about 3 persons per square kilometre (8.5/mi²) in the two northern regions of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, and less than one person per square kilometre (1.6/mi²) elsewhere. |
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