Province of Benghazi
Libya is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa and a part of the Arab world. Although the country is rich in history and culture and has great tourism potential, the country has been in the news for all the wrong reasons since the 1960s.
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- Type: Region with 1,610,000 residents
- Description: eastern coastal region of Libya
- Also known as: “Barca”, “Barqa”, “Barqah”, “Creta et Cirenaica”, “Creta et Cyrenaica”, “Creta et Cyrene”, “Cyrenae”, “Cyrenaica”, “Cyrenaica libya”, “Cyrenaique”, “Cyrene”, “Kirėnija”, “Kyrenaia”, “Kyrene”, “Libya superior”, “Mer cyrénaïque”, “Ostlibyen”, “Pentápolis líbia”, “Regió Pentapolitana”, “Wilāyat Barqah”, “Источна Либија”, “Кіренаїка”, “إقليم برقة”, “إقليم سيرين”, “اقليم برقة”, “بينتابوليس شمال أفريقيا”, “سائرنیکا”, “سيرينايكا”, “قورينائية”, and “キュレナイカ”
Province of Benghazi
- Categories: historical region and geographical area
- Location: Libya, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31° north
Longitude
22.5° or 22° 30′ east
Population
1,610,000
Elevation
129 metres (423 feet)
Open location code
8G342G22+22
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Province of Benghazi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برقة”
- Armenian: “Կիրենաիկա”
- Asturian: “Cirenaica”
- Azerbaijani: “Kirenaika”
- Basque: “Zirenaika”
- Belarusian: “Кірэнаіка”
- Bosnian: “Kirenaika”
- Breton: “Cyrenaica”
- Bulgarian: “Киренайка”
- Catalan: “Cirenaica”
- Central Bikol: “Sirenayka”
- Central Kurdish: “سیرەنایکا”
- Chinese: “昔兰尼加”
- Chinese: “昔蘭尼加”
- Croatian: “Cirenaika”
- Czech: “Kyrenaika”
- Danish: “Cyrenaika”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kirenayka”
- Dutch: “Cyrenaica”
- Esperanto: “Cirenaiko”
- Esperanto: “Cirenio”
- Estonian: “Kürenaika”
- Finnish: “Kyrenaika”
- French: “Cyrénaïque”
- Galician: “Cirenaica”
- Georgian: “კირენაიკა”
- German: “Kyrenaika”
- Greek: “Κυρηναϊκή”
- Hebrew: “קירנאיקה”
- Hindi: “कूरेनाइके”
- Hindi: “सिरेनेइका”
- Hungarian: “Cyrenaica”
- Icelandic: “Kýrenæka”
- Ido: “Kirenaika”
- Indonesian: “Cyrenaica”
- Indonesian: “Kirenaika”
- Italian: “Cirenaica”
- Japanese: “キレナイカ”
- Javanese: “Cyrenaica”
- Kirghiz: “Киренаика”
- Korean: “키레나이카”
- Latin: “Cirenaica”
- Latin: “Cyrenaica”
- Lithuanian: “Kirenaika”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Reghia di Cirenaica”
- Macedonian: “Киренајка”
- Malagasy: “Kirenaika”
- Malay: “Cyrenaica”
- Malay: “Wilayah Barqah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrenaika”
- Norwegian: “Kyrenaika”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cirenaïca”
- Persian: “برقه”
- Polish: “Cyrenajka”
- Portuguese: “Cirenaica”
- Romanian: “Cirenaica”
- Russian: “Киренаика”
- Scots: “Cyrenaica”
- Serbian: “Kirenajka”
- Serbian: “Киренајка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirenaika”
- Sicilian: “Cirinaica”
- Slovak: “Kyrenaika”
- Slovenian: “Cirenajka”
- Spanish: “Cirenaica”
- Swedish: “Cyrenaika”
- Turkish: “Berka”
- Turkish: “Sirenayka”
- Ukrainian: “Киренаїка”
- Urdu: “برقہ”
- Uzbek: “Kirenaika”
- Venetian: “Cirenàega”
- Vietnamese: “Cyrenaica”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cyrenaica”
- Welsh: “Cyrenaica”
- Western Frisian: “Syrenaika”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Z̧ahr Umm Khuwayţ and Minţaqat Jawf al Murār.
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