Libya is a member of a number of organizations and regional and international groupings, including the United Nations, the African Union, and the Arab Maghreb Union, and the League of Arab States, and the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The population of Libya 6.597 million people, a little compared to a country area of about 1,800,000 square kilometers, and is the seventh of ten in the world in terms of area as it has the longest coastline between the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea with a length of about 1,955 kilometers historically consisted of three regions: Region Tripoli and Cyrenaica and Fezzan.
Libya has the highest Human Development Index in Africa and the fourth highest GDP in the continent in 2009, after the Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. This is due to its large oil reserves and low population. Libya has the tenth largest proven oil reserves in the world and ranks seventeenth in global oil production.
In 2011 broke the revolution of 17 February in the form of protests and demonstrations against the regime of Gaddafi, who is classified as an oppressive regime where launched in on February 15 following the arrest of lawyer victims Abu Salim prison (Fathi treble) in the city of Benghazi came out the victims' families and their supporters to rid it and so there is no reason for his detention and was followed on 16 February demonstrations to demand the fall of the regime in Belarus and followed by several cities and regions of a Libyan, and quickly spread in many parts of Libya. On 26 February, it was reported violent repression by security forces of the Gaddafi regime, but protesters who have on February 27 the establishment of the Transitional National Council, which became the revolutionary government. Succeeded in controlling many of the coastal cities in the east and south-east regions, as well as three cities in the west of the country at the beginning of the demonstrations, and raised the flag of Libya's independence in 1951 and who had been canceled by Gaddafi in 1969. Then liberated most areas of the country, especially in the capital Tripoli on 28 August. And until mid-September remained battalions of Gadhafi's military maintains control over the cities of Sabha, Sirte Add to Bani Walid, Jufrah region and languages on the Algerian-Libyan border. On 16 September the United Nations has recognized through the majority of the members of the General Assembly the Transitional National Council as the only government in Libya to receive Council seat to Libya in the international organization. On October 23 officially declared the liberation of Libya after the killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte, his hometown, in an attempt to flee to the south of the country on October 20
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