Libya
Libya
Capital Tripoli
1,759,540 km² · 7,458,555 people (2025) · Libyan dinar
About ninety percent desert, with the population concentrated on the Mediterranean coast. The Great Man-Made River is the largest irrigation project ever built: some 2,800 km of buried four-metre pipe drawing fossil water from the Nubian Sandstone aquifer under the Sahara.
The facts
- Capital
- Tripoli
- Area
- 1,759,540 km² — 679,362 sq mi
- Population
- 7,458,555 (2025)
- Density
- 4.2 people per km²
- Currency
- Libyan dinar (LYD, ل.د)
- Official language
- Arabic
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Calling code
- +218
- Drives on the
- right
- ISO codes
- LY · LBY
- Continent
- Africa
How it compares
- By area
- 17 of 200
- By population
- 106 of 200
Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.
Countries of a similar size
| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 | 285,721,236 |
| Sudan | 1,861,484 | 51,662,147 |
| Libya ← | 1,759,540 | 7,458,555 |
| Iran | 1,648,195 | 92,417,681 |
| Mongolia | 1,564,116 | 3,568,978 |
Common questions
- What is the capital of Libya?
- Tripoli
- What currency does Libya use?
- The Libyan dinar (LYD).
- How big is Libya?
- 1,759,540 km², or 679,362 square miles — 17 of 200 by area.
- Which side of the road does Libya drive on?
- The right.
Related pages
Sources
- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (Public domain (US Government))
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (CC BY 4.0)