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- <title>
- Libya: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Libya
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Northern Africa, on the southern coast of the
- Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Tunisia
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 1,759,540 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 1,759,540 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly larger than Alaska</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 4,383 km, Algeria 982 km, Chad 1,055 km,
- Egypt 1,150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan 383 km, Tunisia 459 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 1,770 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- <l> Gulf of Sidra closing line: 32 degrees 30 minutes north</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: claims and occupies the Aozou Strip in
- northern Chad; maritime boundary dispute with Tunisia; Libya claims
- part of northern Niger and part of southeastern Algeria
- </p>
- <p>Climate: Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus,
- depressions
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, gypsum
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 2%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 8%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
- <l> other: 90%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 2,420 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind lasting
- one to four days in spring and fall; desertification; sparse natural
- surface-water resources
- </p>
- <p>Note: the Great Manmade River Project, the largest water
- development scheme in the world, is being built to bring water from
- large aquifers under the Sahara to coastal cities
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