LibyaBy :Emily Meinzer, Cody Hambly,

Crystal Kendrick, and Baliegh

Anderson

Libya’s People

• A lot of Africa’s population is in Libya. There

are a lot of important people in Libya, but the

most important people are the Berber people.

They are very important to the culture and

actually they are the founders of Libya.

Important Places

• An important place in Libya is an old city

named Tripoli. Famous by the name of Medina

built by Turkish and Italian architecture. There

are many important places in Libya but this is

just one.

Physical Features• Libya, once aptly called the desert kingdom of Africa, has a

costal frontage of over 1,000 mi. (1,600 km.) stretching

between Tunisia and Egypt in northern Africa. The shores of

the three countries are washed by the waters of the

Mediterranean Sea. From the coast, Libya extends from 500 to

800 mi. (800 to 1,300 km.) south, making most of the country

part of the great Sahara, the sea of sand that separates North

Africa from Equatorial Africa. Libya, covering an area of 679,362

sq. mi. (1,759,540 sq. km.) , is traditionally considered as three

separate and diverse regions: Cyrenaica in the east, Tripolitania

in the extreme nothwest, and Fezzan in the Southwest.

Humans and Physical Environment

For people in Libya to survive the Democracy has to

be protected if not then other countries will come

into Libya and there will be war. It has already

happened before and now they have learned there

lesson. Natural environment is very crucial

importance for social and economic life they

depend on a lot of stuff like food. Libya is looking for

skilled employees in the field of construction.

Geographic factors

and Natural resources

• Tripolitama in the west, Frazzan in

the southwest, and Cyrenaica in

the east.• Petroleum, natural gas, and

gypsum.

Culture

• Food: Libyans eat lots of different things. Some of these things we eat like

chips, watermelons, beans, nuts, and potatoes. But they also eat stuff that

we don’t eat lice chickpeas.

• Music: some of Libya’s favorite Arabic artists are Ayman El Aatar and

Hamid El sha’eri. They listen to a lot of different music.

• Religion: Islam is the religion that most people follow in Libya.

• Language: Arabic is the language that Libyans speak.

• Clothing: they cover there bodies in Libya. Girls wear dress’ that cover there

feet and face. Guys wear pants and shirts mostly long sleeves.

• The Warfalla tribe is composed of 52 sub-tribes that consist of Individual

bayts or Houses. They claim lineage from the Baum Hilal tribe which swept

North Africa from Arabia via Egypt in the 11th century. Intermarriage with

Berber tribesmen resulted in the complete Arabization the region by the

time of the ottoman conquest in the 16th century.

Government

• The Government in Libya is Military

dictatorship.

Location• Libya stretches along the northeast coast of

Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the

west. On the east Egypt to the south are

Sudan Chad and Niger. It is 1\6 th larger than

Alaska. Much of the country lies in the Sahara

Desert. Along the Mediterranean coast and

further in land is arable platue land.

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