Tripoli as a Capital of Libya Last updated on
Thursday 22nd April 2010
Tripoli is Libya's largest city and port, and is the country's capital. Meeting-place of the People's Congress and full-time residence of Colonel Qaddafi, it is known in Arabic as Tarabalus Al-Gharb, or Tripoli of the West.
Plans are mooted for a new capital to be sited on the coast of the Gulf of Sirte. Siting the capital on this neutral territory would remove it from both the two rival provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, and may thus serve as a point of unity between them. Colonel Qaddafi's close family links with the Sirt area may add to the final acceptance of this proposal, but it is, as yet, only in the planning stages in government circles.
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Official title
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Capital
Tripoli (population 1,083,000; 1988 estimate)
Main port
Tripoli
Additional urban centre
Benghazi (population 446,250;...
Overview
History
Early colonization
Rise and fall of Italian occupation
Independence for the kingdom
Instability and the rise of Qaddafi
Modern Libya
Geography
Topography
Desert...
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