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A dust storm over the Tripolitania region of Libya. Over 90% of Libya is desert. Area: Total: 1 759 540 km 2 Land: 1 759 540 km 2 Water: 0 km 2 Area - comparative: Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, seven times the size of the United Kingdom, and slightly larger than Alaska.
This is a list of places on land below mean sea level.. Places artificially created such as tunnels, mines, basements, and dug holes, or places under water, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc., are not included.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
This is a list of countries and territories by their average elevation above sea level based on the data published by Central Intelligence Agency, [1] unless another source is cited. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Bikku Bitti, also known as Bette Peak, is the highest mountain in Libya at 2,266–2,267 metres (7,434–7,438 ft). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] : 54 It is located on the Dohone spur of the Tibesti Mountains in southern Libya, near the Chadian border .
The two dams had suffered major damage in the 1980s, Libya’s general prosecutor al-Sediq al-Sour said last week during a news conference, adding that a government study a decade later revealed ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Libya flooding: With a death toll that has surpassed 6,000, recovering the bodies of flood victims on both land and sea has become an urgent problem. After Libya flooding, retrieving the dead ...