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BASIC INFO:
- Total area: 163,610 sq km
- Land area: 155,360 sq km
- Water area: 8,250 sq km- Size comparative to U.S. territory: slightly larger than Georgia
- shared borders of Countries/bodies of water: Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km
- Total distance of all land boundaries: 1,424 km
- Total distance of coastline: 1,148 km
- Climate: north has mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; in the south there is dessert
- Terrain: mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
- lowest point of elevation: Shatt al Gharsah -17 m
- highest point of elevation: Jebel ech Chambi 1,544 m
- Land area: 155,360 sq km
- Water area: 8,250 sq km- Size comparative to U.S. territory: slightly larger than Georgia
- shared borders of Countries/bodies of water: Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km
- Total distance of all land boundaries: 1,424 km
- Total distance of coastline: 1,148 km
- Climate: north has mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; in the south there is dessert
- Terrain: mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara
- lowest point of elevation: Shatt al Gharsah -17 m
- highest point of elevation: Jebel ech Chambi 1,544 m