· OFFICIAL NAME: Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
· CAPITAL: Tripoli
· AREA: 680 sq miles
· INDEPENDENCE: 24 December 1951 (from Italy)
· NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Revolution Day, 1 September (1969)
· CONSTITUTION: 11 December 1969, amended 2 March 1977
· LEGAL SYSTEM: based on Italian civil law system and Islamic law; separate religious courts; no constitutional provision for judicial review of legislative acts
· POPULATION: 5.6 million
· LANGUAGES: Arabic, Italian, English
· RELIGION: Sunni Muslim 97%

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