Libya

Libya

Libya ranks 101st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Cyprus. Memorable people born in present day Libya include Eratosthenes, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mark the Evangelist. Memorable people who died in Libya include Muammar Gaddafi, Omar Mukhtar, and Agesilaus II. Libya has been the birth place of many politicians, and philosophers and the death place of many politicians, and philosophers.

Libya, officially the State of Libya, 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. With an area of almost 1.8 million km2 (700,000 sq mi), it is the 4th-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. The largest city and capital is Tripoli, which is located in northwestern Libya and contains over a million of Libya's seven million people. Read more on Wikipedia