Governorates
The Governorates of Libya (muhafazah) were an administrative division of Libya from 1963 until 1983. Initially there were 46 governorates-districts, called baladiyah, that were reduced to 25 in 1987.
| بلدية | Baladiyah | Main city | Population |
Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| طبرق | Tobruuk | Tobruk | 94,006 | 3 |
| درنة | Darnah | Derna | 105,031 | 14 |
| الجبل الاخضر | Al Jabal al Akhdar | Bayda | 120,662 | 5 |
| المرج | Al Fatih | Marj | 102,763 | 4 |
| بنغازي | Benghazi | Benghazi | 485,386 | 13 |
| إجدابيا | Ajdabiyah | Ajdabiya | 100,547 | 1 |
| الكفرة | Kufra | Al Jawf | 25,139 | 8 |
| سرت | Syrte | Sirte | 110,996 | 21 |
| مصراتة | Misratah | Misrata | 178,295 | 17 |
| Khoms | Khoms | 149,642 | 7 | |
| طرابلس | Tripoli (Tarabulus) | Tripoli | 990,697 | 22 |
| العزيزيه | Al 'Aziziyah | 'Aziziya | 85,068 | 2 |
| الزاوية | Az Zawiyah | Zawiya | 220,075 | 12 |
| النقاط الخمس | An Nuqat al Khams | Zuwara | 181,584 | 9 |
| الجبل الغربي | Gharyan | Gharyan | 117,073 | 16 |
| Zlitan | Zliten | 101,107 | 25 | |
| الجفرة | Al Jufrah | Waddan | ? | 6 |
| الشاطئ | Ash Shati' | Brak | 46,749 | 10 |
| سبها | Sabha | Sabha | 76,171 | 19 |
| أوباري | Awbari | Ubari | 48,701 | 11 |
| غدامس | Ghadamès | Ghadames | 52,247 | 15 |
| Sawfajjin | Bani Walid | 45,195 | 20 | |
| مرزق | Mourzouq | Murzuk | 42,294 | 18 |
| ترهونة | Tarhounah | Tarhuna | 84,640 | 23 |
| يفرن | Yafran | Yafran | 73,420 | 24 |
| Total | 3,637,488 |
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