Province of Benghazi
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- Type: Region with 1,610,000 residents
- Description: eastern coastal region of Libya
- Also known as: “Barca”, “Cyrenaica”, “Cyrenaica libya”, and “Wilāyat Barqah”
Province of Benghazi
- Categories: historical region and geographical area
- Location: Libya, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Province of Benghazi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم برقة”
- Arabic: “إقليم سيرين”
- Arabic: “اقليم برقة”
- Arabic: “برقة”
- Arabic: “بينتابوليس شمال أفريقيا”
- Arabic: “سيرينايكا”
- Arabic: “قورينائية”
- Armenian: “Կիրենաիկա”
- Asturian: “Cirenaica”
- Azerbaijani: “Kirenaika”
- Basque: “Zirenaika”
- Belarusian: “Кірэнаіка”
- Bosnian: “Cyrenaica”
- Bosnian: “Kirenaika”
- Breton: “Cyrenaica”
- Breton: “Kirenaika”
- Breton: “Kyrenaia”
- Bulgarian: “Киренайка”
- Catalan: “Cirenaica”
- Catalan: “Regió Pentapolitana”
- Central Bikol: “Sirenayka”
- Central Kurdish: “سیرەنایکا”
- Chinese: “昔兰尼加”
- Chinese: “昔蘭尼加”
- Croatian: “Cirenaika”
- Croatian: “Cyrenaica”
- Croatian: “Kirenaika”
- Czech: “Kyrenaika”
- Danish: “Cyrenaica”
- Danish: “Cyrenaika”
- Danish: “Kyrenaika”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kirenayka”
- Dutch: “Barqa”
- Dutch: “Cyrenaica”
- Dutch: “Cyrenaika”
- Dutch: “Kyrenaika”
- Esperanto: “Cirenaica”
- Esperanto: “Cirenaiko”
- Esperanto: “Cirenio”
- Esperanto: “Creta et Cyrene”
- Esperanto: “Cyrenaica”
- Esperanto: “Cyrene”
- Esperanto: “Kyrene”
- Esperanto: “Libya superior”
- Estonian: “Kürenaika”
- Finnish: “Cyrenaica”
- Finnish: “Kyrenaika”
- French: “Cyrenaique”
- French: “Cyrénaïque”
- French: “Mer cyrénaïque”
- Galician: “Cirenaica”
- Georgian: “კირენაიკა”
- German: “Barqah”
- German: “Cyrenae”
- German: “Cyrenaica”
- German: “Cyrenaika”
- German: “Kyrenaia”
- German: “Kyrenaika”
- German: “Ostlibyen”
- Greek: “Κυρηναϊκή”
- Hebrew: “קירנאיקה”
- Hindi: “सिरेनेइका”
- Hungarian: “Cyrenaica”
- Icelandic: “Kýrenæka”
- Ido: “Kirenaika”
- Indonesian: “Cyrenaica”
- Indonesian: “Kirenaika”
- Italian: “Cirenaica”
- Japanese: “キュレナイカ”
- Japanese: “キレナイカ”
- Javanese: “Cyrenaica”
- Kirghiz: “Киренаика”
- Korean: “키레나이카”
- Latin: “Cirenaica”
- Latin: “Cyrenaica”
- Lithuanian: “Kirenaika”
- Lithuanian: “Kirėnija”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Reghia di Cirenaica”
- Macedonian: “Киренајка”
- Malagasy: “Kirenaika”
- Malay: “Cyrenaica”
- Malay: “Wilayah Barqah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cyrenaica”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrenaika”
- Norwegian: “Kyrenaika”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cirenaïca”
- Persian: “برقه”
- Polish: “Cyrenajka”
- Portuguese: “Barqa”
- Portuguese: “Cirenaica”
- Portuguese: “Cyrenaica”
- Portuguese: “Pentápolis líbia”
- Romanian: “Cirenaica”
- Romanian: “Creta et Cirenaica”
- Romanian: “Creta et Cyrenaica”
- Russian: “Киренаика”
- Scots: “Cyrenaica”
- Serbian: “Kirenajka”
- Serbian: “Источна Либија”
- Serbian: “Киренаика”
- Serbian: “Киренајка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cirenaika”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirenaika”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirenajka”
- Sicilian: “Cirenaica”
- Sicilian: “Cirinaica”
- Slovenian: “Cirenajka”
- Spanish: “Cirenaica”
- Spanish: “Cyrenaica”
- Swedish: “Cyrenaica”
- Swedish: “Cyrenaika”
- Swedish: “Kyrenaika”
- Turkish: “Berka”
- Turkish: “Sirenayka”
- Ukrainian: “Киренаїка”
- Ukrainian: “Кіренаїка”
- Urdu: “برقہ”
- Urdu: “سائرنیکا”
- Uzbek: “Kirenaika”
- Venetian: “Cirenàega”
- Vietnamese: “Cyrenaica”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cyrenaica”
- Welsh: “Cyrenaica”
- Western Frisian: “Syrenaika”
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