Libya, officially the State of Libya is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west and Tunisia to the northwest. This sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica.

Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa and is the 16th largest country in the world.  It has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world.  Tripoli is the largest city and capital, located in western Libya and contains over three million of Libya’s seven million people.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya