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Tripoli

Tripoli

Tripoli is the capital, largest city, principal harbour and biggest commercial and manufacturing centre of the country of . Tripoli is in the north-west of Libya on the Mediterranean Sea.
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  • Type: City with 2,130,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Libya
  • Also known as: “Aea”, “Ea”, “Oea”, “Taràbles”, “Tarabulus”, “Ţarābulus”, “Ṭarābulus”, “Ţarābulus al Gharb”, “Tarabulus el Gharb”, and “Tripoli, Libya”
Photo: tarksiala, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Red Castle Museum and Embassy of Italy.

Museum
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The , also known as As-saraya Al-hamra Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Tripoli or Jamahiriya Museum, is a national museum in .

Government office
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is a government office.

Castle
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The Red Castle, in Arabic As-saraya Al-hamra, sometimes also Red Fort or Red Saraya, is a major landmark on the waterfront of Tripoli, bordering Martyrs' Square.

Tripoli

Latitude
32.8822° or 32° 52′ 56″ north
Longitude
13.1891° or 13° 11′ 21″ east
Population
2,130,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
TIP
United Nations Location Code
LY TIP
Open location code
8F4MV5JQ+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1699640925
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2210247
Wiki­data ID
Q3579
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Tripoli” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tarabulus”
  • Adyghe: “Триполи”
  • Afrikaans: “Tripoli”
  • Albanian: “Tripoli”
  • Amharic: “ትሪፖሊ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τρίπολις”
  • Arabic: “طرابلس”
  • Arabic: “طَرَابُلُس”
  • Aragonese: “Tripoli”
  • Armenian: “Տրիպոլի”
  • Asturian: “Trípoli”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tərabülüs əl-Qərb”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tripoli”
  • Balinese: “Tripoli”
  • Bashkir: “Триполи”
  • Basque: “Tripoli”
  • Belarusian: “Трыпалі”
  • Bengali: “ত্রিপোলি”
  • Bosnian: “Tripoli”
  • Breton: “Tripoli”
  • Bulgarian: “Триполи”
  • Catalan: “Trípoli”
  • Cebuano: “Tripoli”
  • Central Bikol: “Tripoli”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tripoli”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەرابلوس”
  • Chechen: “Триполи”
  • Chechen: “ТӀарабулус”
  • Chinese: “Tripoli”
  • Chinese: “的黎波里”
  • Cornish: “Tripoli”
  • Corsican: “Tripuli”
  • Corsican: “Trípuli”
  • Croatian: “Tripoli”
  • Czech: “Tripolis”
  • Danish: “Tripoli”
  • Dutch: “Tripoli”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طرابلس”
  • Esperanto: “Tripolo”
  • Estonian: “Tripoli”
  • Extremaduran: “Trípoli”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tripoli”
  • Finnish: “Tripoli”
  • French: “Tripoli”
  • Fulah: “Tripoli”
  • Ga: “Tarabulus”
  • Ga: “Tripoli”
  • Galician: “Trípoli, Libia”
  • Galician: “Trípoli”
  • Georgian: “ტრიპოლი”
  • German: “Tripolis”
  • Greek: “Τρίπολη”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રિપલી”
  • Haitian: “Tripoli”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tripoli”
  • Hausa: “Tripoli”
  • Hebrew: “טריפולי”
  • Hindi: “ताराबूलस”
  • Hindi: “त्रिपोली”
  • Hungarian: “Tripoli”
  • Icelandic: “Trípólí”
  • Ido: “Tripoli”
  • Inari Sami: “Tripoli”
  • Indonesian: “Tripoli”
  • Interlingua: “Tripoli”
  • Interlingue: “Tripolis”
  • Irish: “Tripilí”
  • Italian: “Tripoli”
  • Japanese: “トリポリ”
  • Javanese: “Tripoli”
  • Kabiyè: “Triipoolii - Liibii”
  • Kabiyè: “Triipoolii”
  • Kabyle: “Ṭrables”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tripoli”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರಿಪೋಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tripoli”
  • Kashmiri: “طِرابلس”
  • Kashmiri: “طرٛیپولی”
  • Kazakh: “Триполи”
  • Kazakh: “Эа”
  • Kazakh: “Эя”
  • Kirghiz: “Триполи”
  • Komering: “Tripoli”
  • Kongo: “Tripoli”
  • Korean: “트리폴리”
  • Kotava: “Tarabulus”
  • Kurdish: “Trablûs”
  • Ladino: “Tripoli”
  • Latin: “Tripolis”
  • Latvian: “Rietumtripole”
  • Latvian: “Tarabulusa”
  • Latvian: “Tripole”
  • Ligurian: “Tripoli”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tarabulo”
  • Lithuanian: “Tripolis”
  • Livvi: “Tripoli”
  • Lombard: “Tripul”
  • Low German: “Tripolis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tripolis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Tripoli”
  • Macedonian: “Триполи”
  • Malagasy: “Tripoli”
  • Malay: “Tripoli”
  • Malayalam: “ട്രിപ്പോളി”
  • Maltese: “Tripli”
  • Maltese: “Tripoli”
  • Maori: “Tiripori”
  • Maori: “Tiriporī”
  • Marathi: “त्रिपोली”
  • Mazanderani: “طرابلس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tripoli”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tripoli”
  • Minangkabau: “Tripoli”
  • Mingrelian: “ტრიპოლი”
  • Moksha: “Триполи”
  • Mongolian: “Триполи, Ливи”
  • Mongolian: “Триполи”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طارابلس”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طرابلس”
  • Navajo: “Táaʼgokin”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tripolis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tripoli”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tripoli”
  • Norwegian: “Tripoli”
  • Novial: “Tripoli”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Trípol”
  • Ossetian: “Триполи”
  • Pampanga: “Tripoli”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਰਾਬਲਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Tripoli”
  • Persian: “طرابلس”
  • Piemontese: “Trìpoli”
  • Polish: “Trypolis”
  • Portuguese: “Trípoli”
  • Pushto: “ترابلس”
  • Quechua: “Tripoli”
  • Romanian: “Tripoli”
  • Russian: “Триполи”
  • Sardinian: “Tripoli”
  • Sardinian: “Trìpoli”
  • Scots: “Tripoli”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tripoli”
  • Serbian: “Триполи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tripoli”
  • Shona: “Tripoli”
  • Sicilian: “Trìpuli”
  • Silesian: “Trypolis”
  • Sindhi: “طرابلس”
  • Sinhala: “ට්‍රිපොලි”
  • Sinhala: “ට්‍රිපෝලි”
  • Slovak: “Tripolis”
  • Slovenian: “Tripoli”
  • Slovenian: “Tripolis”
  • Somali: “Triboli”
  • South Azerbaijani: “طرابلس”
  • Spanish: “Tripoli”
  • Spanish: “Trípoli”
  • Swahili: “Tripoli, Libya”
  • Swahili: “Tripoli”
  • Swedish: “Tripoli”
  • Tagalog: “Tripoli”
  • Tajik: “Таробулус-ал-Ғарб”
  • Tajik: “Триполи”
  • Talysh: “Tripoli”
  • Tamil: “டிரிபோலி”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரிபலீ”
  • Tamil: “தறாபுலுஸ்”
  • Tamil: “திரிப்பொலி”
  • Tatar: “Триполи шәһәре”
  • Telugu: “ట్రిపోలి”
  • Thai: “ตริโปลี”
  • Tibetan: “ཐི་རི་ཕོ་ལི”
  • Turkish: “Trablus”
  • Turkish: “Trablusgarp”
  • Turkmen: “Tripoli”
  • Twi: “Tripoli”
  • Udmurt: “Триполи”
  • Uighur: “ترىپولى”
  • Uighur: “تەرابۇلۇس”
  • Ukrainian: “Триполі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tripolis”
  • Urdu: “طرابلس، لیبیا”
  • Urdu: “طرابلس”
  • Uzbek: “Tarobulus al-Gʻarb”
  • Venetian: “Tripołi”
  • Venetian: “Trìpułi”
  • Veps: “Tripoli”
  • Vietnamese: “Tripoli”
  • Volapük: “Tarabulus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tripoli”
  • Welsh: “Tripoli”
  • Western Armenian: “Թրիփոլի”
  • Western Frisian: “Tripoly”
  • Western Mari: “Триполи”
  • Western Panjabi: “طرابلس”
  • Wolof: “Tripoli”
  • Wu Chinese: “的黎波里”
  • Yiddish: “טריפאלי”
  • Yoruba: “Tripoli”
  • Yue Chinese: “的黎波里”
  • Zulu: “Tripoli, Libhiya”
  • “Trablusgarp”
  • “Tripoli”

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