Provinces
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There are twenty-two districts of Libya, known by the term shabiyah (Arabic singular شعبية šaʿbiyya, plural šaʿbiyyāt) which are grouped into three provinces. In the 1990s these replaced the older baladiyat system.
| Name | English transliteration | Area (km2) | Population |
| Cyrenaica | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| البطنان | Butnan | 108 107 | 192 127 |
| درنة | Derna | 40 079 | 196 722 |
| الجبل الاخضر | Jabal al Akhdar | 14 537 | 244 659 |
| المرج | Marj | 17 190 | 223 815 |
| بنغازي | Benghazi | 14 464 | 807 833 |
| الواحات | Al Wahat | 134 215 | 213 216 |
| الكفرة | Kufra | 551 513 | 60 340 |
| Tripolitania | |||
| سرت | Sirte | 9 878 | 23 329 |
| مصراتة | Misrata | 37 104 | 663 489 |
| المرقب | Murqub | 8 644 | 520 496 |
| طرابلس | Tripoli | 1 062 | 1 283 055 |
| الجفارة | Jafara | 3 391 | 545 781 |
| الزاوية | Zawiya | 3 502 | 350 440 |
| النقاط الخمس | Nuqat al Khams | 7 745 | 346 428 |
| الجبل الغربي | Jabal al Gharbi | 97 577 | 366 295 |
| نالوت | Nalut | 85 461 | 11 226 |
| Fezzan | |||
| الجفرة | Jufra | 14 933 | 63 035 |
| وادي الشاطئ | Wadi al Shatii | 12 358 | 94 575 |
| سبها | Sabha | 13 649 | 161 570 |
| وادي الحياة | Wadi al Hayaa | 40 046 | 92 559 |
| غات | Ghat | 87 103 | 28 322 |
| مرزق | Murzuq | 453 191 | 94 682 |
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