Map of Libya

Libya is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 25.0° N, 17.0° E. It shares land borders with 6 countries — Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Libya is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Libya shares land frontiers with the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Libya covers about 1,759,540 km² (679,362 sq mi). That makes it the 16th-largest country in the world by area and the 4th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 50 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 7,459,000, the 104th-largest in the world and the 35th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Libya has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 35th by population and 4th by area.

The seat of government is Tripoli, and the official currency is the Libyan dinar (LYD, ل.د), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Libya carries the ISO country codes LY and LBY, dials on the international calling code +218 and uses the .ly internet domain.

Libya shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Egypt (capital Cairo, about 107,271,260 people), Sudan (capital Khartoum, about 51,662,000 people), Algeria (capital Algiers, about 47,400,000 people), Niger (capital Niamey, about 26,312,034 people), Chad (capital N'Djamena, about 19,340,757 people) and Tunisia (capital Tunis, about 11,972,169 people).

By area, Libya is larger than 4 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 25.0° N, 17.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Libya within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Tripoli. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Libya lies about 2,775 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Libya keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Libyan dinar (LYD, ل.د).

The official language is Arabic, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +218 and websites commonly use the .ly internet domain.

In short, Libya is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Tripoli. Libya has a population of about 7,459,000 and covers around 1,759,540 km² (679,362 sq mi), ranking it 104th in the world by population and 16th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Libya.

The flag of Libya is composed of three horizontal bands of red, black and green, with the black band twice the height of the other two bands. At the center of the black band is a fly-side facing white crescent and a five-pointed white star placed just outside the crescent opening.

The flag of Libya is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.