Libya — World Gazetteer, 2005 edition

Name: Libya — World Gazetteer 2005 edition
Creator: Stefan Helders

Libya had an estimated population of 5,980,693 in 2005, with 44 places recorded. Archived from the World Gazetteer, the reference work formerly published at this domain.

About these figures. This page is part of the restored World Gazetteer archive: the 2005 edition of Stefan Helders' reference work, which was published at this domain until 2013 and is preserved here. Figures are as of 2005 and are kept for citation continuity and historical comparison. Esta página conserva la edición de 2005 del World Gazetteer. Las cifras corresponden a 2005; para datos actuales, consulte las fuentes oficiales.

For current figures: Libya today — population now 6,678,567, against 5,980,693 in 2005.

Agglomerations, 2005

#	Name	Population (2005)
1	Tarabulus	1,800,555
2	Bangazi	1,108,034

Cities and towns, 2005

#	Place	Region	Population (2005)
1	Tripoli	Tripoli	1,150,989
2	Benghazi	Bangāzī	650,629
3	Mişrātah	Mişrātah	386,120
4	al-ʿAzīzīyah	al-Jifārah	287,407
5	Tarhūnah	Tarhūnah wa Masallātah	210,697
6	al-H̱ums	al-Marqab	201,943
7	az-Zāwiyah	az-Zāwiyah	186,123
8	Zuwārah	an-Nuqāţ al-Hums	180,310
9	Ajdābiyā	Ajdābīyā	134,358
10	Surt	Surt	128,123
11	Sabhā	Sabhā	126,386
12	Ţubruq	al-Buţnān	121,052
13	al-Bayd̨ā	al-Jabal al-Ahd̨ar	118,753
14	Şabrātah	Şabrātah wa Şurman	102,038
15	Zlītan	al-Marqab	99,289
16	al-Marj	al-Marj	85,315
17	Ġaryān	Garyān	85,219
18	Darnah	Darnah	78,782
19	Yafran	Yafran wa Jādū	67,638
20	Nālūt	Nālūt	66,228
21	al-Qubbah	al-Qubbah	53,064
22	Banī Walīd	Banī Walīd	46,350
23	al-Kufrah	al-Kufrah	46,050
24	Marzuq	Marzuq	43,732
25	Šah̨h̨āt	al-Jabal al-Ahd̨ar	43,376
26	Awbāri	Wādī al-H̨ayāt	42,975
27	al-Birāq	Wādī aš-Šāţī	39,444
28	al-Abyār	al-Hizām al-Aẖd̨ar	31,248
29	Waddān	al-Jufrah	27,590
30	Mizdah	Mizdah	26,107
31	Şurmān	Şabrātah wa Şurman	25,235
32	Ġāt	Gāt	24,347
33	Masallātah	Tarhūnah wa Masallātah	23,702
34	Tūkrah	al-Hizām al-Aẖd̨ar	23,164
35	az-Zuwaytīnah	Ajdābīyā	21,015
36	Hūn	al-Jufrah	18,878
37	Ġadāmis	Gadāmis	16,752
38	Zalţan	an-Nuqāţ al-Hums	16,291
39	Sulūq	al-Hizām al-Aẖd̨ar	15,543
40	Marsā al-Burayqah	Ajdābīyā	13,780
41	Bardīyah	al-Buţnān	9,149
42	Awjilah	al-Wāh̨āt	6,610
43	Jādū	Yafran wa Jādū	6,013
44	Jalu	al-Wāh̨āt	3,334

Administrative divisions, 2005

#	Name	Population (2005)
1	Tripoli	1,178,567
2	Bangāzī	667,175
3	Mişrātah	399,711
4	al-Marqab	345,926
5	Tarhūnah wa Masallātah	311,081
6	al-Jifārah	304,811
7	an-Nuqāţ al-Hums	218,275
8	az-Zāwiyah	206,116
9	al-Jabal al-Ahd̨ar	203,501
10	Ajdābīyā	181,455
11	Surt	170,763
12	Garyān	168,885
13	al-Buţnān	161,199
14	Şabrātah wa Şurman	158,259
15	Sabhā	134,497
16	Yafran wa Jādū	123,536
17	al-Marj	121,289
18	al-Hizām al-Aẖd̨ar	113,914
19	al-Qubbah	97,886
20	Nālūt	93,848
21	Darnah	83,491
22	Banī Walīd	82,385
23	Wādī aš-Šāţī	81,078
24	Wādī al-H̨ayāt	77,840
25	Marzuq	72,499
26	al-Kufrah	55,690
27	al-Jufrah	47,538
28	Mizdah	44,445
29	al-Wāh̨āt	30,892
30	Gāt	24,347
31	Gadāmis	19,794

The complete dataset is available as a free CSV download, with attribution to Stefan Helders / World Gazetteer.