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1 What type of government does Libya have?

2 However, the northern regions enjoy a milder ________.

3 What is the population of Libya?

4 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Libya?

5 What does the following picture show?  Map of Libya   The Jabal Al Akdhar Annual rainfall averages at between 400 and 600 millimetres (15.7 and 23.6 in).[66]   Aristippus was a pupil of Socrates, and was one of several native Cyrenean philosophers. At its heyday, Cyrene was one of the greatest intellectual and artistic centers of the Greek world.   The Roman theatre at Sabrtha attests to a prosperous region with cultural amenities found in other corners of the Roman Empire.

6 What does the following picture show?  A map indicating the ethnic composition of Libya   Gadaffi and Tito; Gadaffi's revolution has espoused Socialism and Pan-Arabism in the past.   U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Libyan National Security Adviser Mutassim Qadhafi.   Satellite image of Libya, generated from raster graphics data supplied by The Map Library

7 Of this group, approximately 9,000 persons were from the Former Palestine, 3,200 from Sudan, 2,500 from Somalia and 1,100 from ________.

8 When was Libya established?

9 What % of the area of Libya is water?

10 Six other Libyans were put on trial in absentia for the 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772 over ________ and Niger.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • despite historically good relations, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called for Switzerland's dissolution in September 2009?
  • because of low rainfall, poor soils, and the growth of the oil industry, Libya's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the GDP?
  • in the Siege of Tripoli (1551) the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Tripoli in modern-day Libya from the Knights of Malta?
  • some weather records include a 57.8°C (136°F) air temperature in Libya, 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe, and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska?
  • the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?
  • activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
  • Clarrie Isaacs, one of the founders of the Aboriginal Provisional Government, travelled to Libya on what he claimed was a valid Aboriginal passport but was denied re-entry to Australia with it?
  • Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria, an Italian-made self-propelled 155mm howitzer, ordering 210 units in 1982?
  • Libya's Sirte Basin—which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level—contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
  • Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War?
  • Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian?
  • PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat survived the crash of an Air Bissau aircraft during a sandstorm in the Libyan desert in 1992?
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