Libya — World Gazetteer, 2005 edition

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

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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 7,539,851, against 5,980,693 in 2005.

Source	2005	Now	Change
World Gazetteer (the work cited)	5,980,693	—	—
UN World Population Prospects	5,858,798	7,539,851	+29%

The two 2005 figures agree closely. Use the UN pair for a like-for-like change.

Agglomerations, 2005

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

Cities and towns, 2005

#	Place	Region	Population (2005)	Today
1	Tripoli	Tripoli	1,150,989	1,302,947 now
2	Benghazi	Bangāzī	650,629	757,490 now
3	Mişrātah	Mişrātah	386,120	355,657 now
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	200,000 now
8	Zuwārah	an-Nuqāţ al-Hums	180,310	—
9	Ajdābiyā	Ajdābīyā	134,358	131,773 now
10	Surt	Surt	128,123	—
11	Sabhā	Sabhā	126,386	149,329 now
12	Ţubruq	al-Buţnān	121,052	—
13	al-Bayd̨ā	al-Jabal al-Ahd̨ar	118,753	129,439 now
14	Şabrātah	Şabrātah wa Şurman	102,038	83,398 now
15	Zlītan	al-Marqab	99,289	—
16	al-Marj	al-Marj	85,315	85,315 now
17	Ġaryān	Garyān	85,219	—
18	Darnah	Darnah	78,782	102,581 now
19	Yafran	Yafran wa Jādū	67,638	22,680 now
20	Nālūt	Nālūt	66,228	28,431 now
21	al-Qubbah	al-Qubbah	53,064	24,631 now
22	Banī Walīd	Banī Walīd	46,350	45,734 now
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	32,563 now
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	21,015 now
36	Hūn	al-Jufrah	18,878	24,431 now
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	—

The Today column links to our current page for the same place, where one matches by name and plausible size; the figure shown there is today's, never 2005's. A dash means no confident match, which is more honest than a guessed link.

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.