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Libya covers an area of 1.77 million km2, supporting a population of about 6 million, who live mainly along the Mediterranean seaboard. It has common frontiers with Egypt to the east, Algeria and Tunisia to the west, and Chad, Sudan and Niger to the south. A mountain range, known as the Akhdar, rises to 900 m in the northeast, but is flanked by true deserts and rocky arid plateaux over most of the rest of the country.
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Libya. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_11
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