|- | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=Deuce | National motto: n/a |- | align=center colspan=Two style="background: #ffffff;" | Location of Libya |- | Official language || Arabic |- | Capital || Tripoli |- | Leader of the Revolution || Muammar al-Qaddafi |- | President || Zentani Muhammad az-Zentani |- | Prime Minister || Shukri Ghanem |- | Area
- Total || Ranked 16th
1,759,540 km² |- | Population
 - Total (Season)
 - Density || Ranked 103rd
5,499,074
3.1/km² |- | Currency || Dinar |- | Time zone || UTC +2 |- | Independence|| December 24, 1951 |- | National anthem || Allahu Akbar |- | Internet TLD || .ly |- | Calling Code || 218 |} History
Independent article: History of Libya''

Tripoli and Cyrenaica were Roman colonies until they were conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century. Per 19th century the area was an progressively independent Ottoman province until it came under a control of Italy in 1912.

When a Second World War Libya was granted independence as a condition of the Allied peace sustaining Italy. Since 1969 Libya has been ruled by Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, who come to power inside the coup and deposed the Libyan monarchy of King Idris.

Qadhafi rejected two Soviet Communism and Western capitalism and claimed that he was charting an independent course, portraying himself as a champion of "oppressed peoples" & Third World nations seeking to assert their independence on the international stage. Despite this, he received mostly Soviet trend lines until a USSR's collapse inside 1991.

U.S.-Libyan relations deteriorated when in December 2 1979, Libyan mobs sacked the United States embassy in Tripoli. Qadhafi referred to a incident as a "spontaneous demonstration" and denied any involvement. These are suspected that he ordered a attack to show sympathy to Ayatollah Khomeini and the fresh government of Iran. Inside May 1980, the United States withdrew everthing U.S. diplomats however did non break off diplomatic ties using Libya.

Around 1980, a Libyan government paid Jimmy Carter's brother, Billy Carter, $220,000 to lobby for better diplomatic relations between the United States & Libya.

In May 6, 1981, four & the half months fallowing Ronald Reagan became president of a United States, the United States government accused the Libyan government of sponsoring international terrorism. Completely Libyan diplomats were expelled & a United States officially broke diplomatic relations between them nations. A Libyan embassy was likewise close up.

A Reagan administration saw Libya as an unacceptable streaming video player on the international stage because of its backing of Palestinian armed groups, its support for radical Iran in its 1980-1988 war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq (see Iran-Iraq War), and its assistance to guerrilla movements around different area of the globe, several which were conducted by separatist groups such as a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Within March 1982 the U.S. stated the ban on the import of Libyan petroleum and the exportation to Libya of U.S. industrial technology things, virtually all of which were utilized for oil; Europe did non watch lawsuit.

Relations between a UK & Libya became strained resulting a 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege, when shots were fired at the crowd of protesters, killing the police matron, leading to the break around relations.

A U.S. attacked Libyan patrol ship from either January to March 1986 during clashes over access to the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed as territorial waters however was non recognized internationally. Qadhafi got hanker referred thereto when a "line of death". Late, in April 14, 1986, Reagan ordered major bombing raids against suspected terrorist sites around Tripoli and Benghazi that killed or so Sixty humans. A bombings followed U.S. accusations of Libyan involvement inside an explosion at a German La Belle nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen in April 5, which had flushed Trinity. Among a sportsmen of a April 14 bombing raid was the adoptive girl of Qadhafi. Nevertheless a raid appeared to will have its desired result when Libyan attacks against Americans became extra subtle, sustaining a exception of the Lockerbie bombing.

A United Nations imposed sanctions against Libya in 1992 following the Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bombing. A sanctions were lifted in September 12, 2003, after Libya agreed to assume responsibility & produce payment of United states $2.7 billion to the families of people world health organization died in the bombing. In the equivalent vein, in February 26, 2004, a United States lifted its Xxiii-seasin travel ban to Libya, & on September 21 that season eliminated a left over economic sanctions, lifting the prohibitions of the Libyan Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. A portion 550, & unblocking property & property interests antecedently restricted under victims regulations.

Politics
Independent article: Politics of Libya

A Libyan body of government is quite unusual. Qadhafi claims that Libya occurs as "pure socialist state", and intrinsically a formal institutions of government come deliberately quite undefined. Qadhafi himself is non potentially technically a "President" or even "Prime Minister" of the united states, & instead describes himself as a kind of "guide" or even the "leader" to help a Libyan population around socialism. To virtually all population as much as the world, he is only known as "Colonel Qadhafi". Libya has there are no constitution, and a laws of the land are from either Islamic law, and Qadhafi's Green Book of political philosophy. The food and drug administration is known as the "jamahiriya", a modification of the Arabic word "jumhuriya" (republic) that translates loosely as "people's state."

Around practice, still, Libythe is fundamentally a dictatorship, with Qadhafi ruling by decree, assisted by a little inner circle of armed services & political officials. Libya has been accused of far flung human rights abuses and state sponsored terrorism.

In 19 December 2003, Libythe admitted having got a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program & at the same time announced its intention to prevent it and dismantle completely existent WMDs, to exist as verified by unconditional review. Libya too agreed to limit its yearn range missiles to 300 kilometre. A bit of of the WMD involved mustard gas, which was hidden in the turkey farm. A announcement come when hush-hush diplomatic negotiations by owning a United Kingdom and United States since March 2003.

Just about that equivalent period, Libya was as well caught secretly passing nuclear technology, originally from either North Korea, to other countries. Furthermore, Pakistan and China were mentioned as contributors to the computer program. Egypt previously had found technology directly from either Pyongyang, officials said, but a U.S. blocked the shipment of missiles within 2001. However, when a Home subcommittee in terrorist act learned a year late, Egypt got received Xxiv There is no-Dong missile engines from either Northerly Korea.

"We are still trying to understand the network, to see if other countries have received the [weapons-related] technology, the weapons designs," IAEthe director-general Mohamed El Baradei, world health organization did non cite Egypt, said when you took a visit to Libya February 23, 2004. "This is of course an important and urgent concern for us." In March 7, 2004, the White House confirmed that the endure of Libya's nuclear weapons-related equipment got been sent to the United States.

See Also
Foreign relations of Libya

Municipalities

Geography
Independent article: Geography of Libya

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Tunisia

Climate: Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme waste interior

Natural resources: crude oil, gas, gypsum

Geographic regions: Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan.

Natural hazards: hot, dry, dust-laden sirocco (known in Libya when a ghibli) occurs as southern wind lasting of these to 4 years within spring & fall; dust storms, sandstorms.

A Great Manmade River task is a big engineering project Libya has undertaken to supply a body of water to the Sahara desert.

Economy
Independent article: Economy of Libya

Libya's economy under a todays Prime Minister (Ghanem) is undergoing an unbelievable business boom. Numerous socialist-era government-start industries come existence privatized. UN sanctions keep close at h& been mostly upraised (2004) and United states of america sanctions come as well. E.g., Continental Airlines today offers code-part visit Libya.

Demographics
Independent article: Demographics of Libya

Libythe has the little people inside a big acreage. People density is astir Fifty souls by the km² (80/sq. mi.) in the ii northern regions of Tripolitania & Cyrenaica, however lessens to less than of these human by the km² (Ace.6/sq. mi.) elsewhere. Ninety percent of a humans infect to a lesser degree 10% of the metropolitan area, primarily along the coast. To a higher degree half a people is urban, mostly concentrated in the deuce big cities, Tripoli & Benghazi. 50% of the people is guessed to exist as under age Fifteen.

Native Libyans come primarily the mixture of Berbers & Arabs. Microscopic Tuareg & Tebu tribal groups within southern Libya come roving or even seminomadic. Among foreign residents, a big groups come citizens of more African nations, including Northerly Africans (primarily Egyptians & Tunisians), West Africans & Sub-Saharan Africans.

Culture
Independent article: Culture of Libya

Islam in Libya Music of Libya

Miscellaneous topics
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