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Libya: cities by population

Libya has a population of 6,678,567, with Tripoli as its capital. The 50 largest of its 119 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Tripoli	Tripoli	1,302,947
2	Benghazi	Banghazi	757,490
3	Misratah	Misratah	355,657
4	Zliten	Misratah	203,790
5	Al Khums	Al Marqab	201,943
6	Az Zāwīyah	Az Zawiyah	200,000
7	Zawiya	Az Zawiyah	186,123
8	Janzūr	Al Jafarah	154,389
9	Sabha	Sabha District	149,329
10	Tobruk	Al Butnan	141,499
11	Ajdabiya	Al Wahat	131,773
12	Al Ajaylat	An Nuqat al Khams	130,546
13	Al Bayḑā’	Al Jabal al Akhdar	129,439
14	Al Jadīd	Sabha District	126,386
15	Sirte	Surt	106,705
16	Darnah	Darnah	102,581
17	Al Jumayl	An Nuqat al Khams	102,000
18	Qaşr Bin Ghashīr	Tripoli	100,069
19	Tājūrā’	Tripoli	100,000
20	Al Marj	Al Marj	85,315
21	Şabrātah	Az Zawiyah	83,398
22	Al Ḩurshah	Az Zawiyah	81,119
23	Şurmān	Az Zawiyah	77,114
24	Msalātah	Al Marqab	73,907
25	As Sawānī	Al Jafarah	57,069
26	Tarhuna	Al Marqab	52,420
27	Al ‘Azīzīyah	Al Jafarah	52,404
28	Qaşr al Qarabūllī	Tripoli	49,610
29	At Tāj	Al Kufrah	46,050
30	Bani Walid	Misratah	45,734
31	Al Jawf	Al Kufrah	42,079
32	Gharyan	Jabal al Gharbi	36,110
33	Zuwarah	An Nuqat al Khams	33,887
34	Ubari	Wadi al Hayat	33,569
35	Zintan	Jabal al Gharbi	33,000
36	Al Abyār	Al Marj	32,563
37	Sīdī Bin Zīnah	An Nuqat al Khams	31,607
38	Al Burayqah	Al Wahat	31,300
39	Murzuk	Murzuq District	30,491
40	Shahhat	Al Jabal al Akhdar	29,206
41	Nālūt	Nalut	28,431
42	Al Aşābi‘ah	Jabal al Gharbi	27,713
43	Az Zahrā’	Al Jafarah	25,684
44	Al Qubbah	Darnah	24,631
45	Hūn	Al Jufrah	24,431
46	Al Ghurayfah	Wadi al Hayat	23,449
47	Yafran	Jabal al Gharbi	22,680
48	Az Zuwaytīnah	Al Wahat	21,015
49	An Nāşirīyah	Al Jafarah	20,687
50	Qaryat Sulūq	Banghazi	19,918

Twenty years earlier: Libya in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 5,980,693.