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Food & drink

Libyan cuisine is a mixture of Arabic and Mediterranean, with a strong Italian influence.

Italy's legacy from the days when Libya was an Italian colony can be seen in the popularity of pasta on its menus, particularly macaroni.

A famous local dish is couscous, which is a boiled cereal (traditionally millet, now fairly often wheat) used as a base for meat and potatoes. The meat is usually mutton, but chicken is served occasionally.

Sherba

Bazin

Dates, oranges, apricots, figs and olives are all readily available.

Libyans prefer to eat at home, except on Fridays, when they enjoy family beachside picnics. For the most part,

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Modern Libya

A new era in the history of Libya began on September 1, 1969, when a group of young army officers overthrew the royal government and established a republic under the name Libyan Arab Republic.

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Early colonization 早期的殖民化區域

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Flora & fauna

植物和動物

Libyan vegetation is mostly extremely sparse稀疏, particularly in the desert areas. Oases support the growth of date palms棗椰, olive橄欖 trees and orange trees, and the Jabal Nafusah Plateau 高原 is covered with shrubs 灌木 such as asphodel 日光蘭 and wild pistachio開心果.

Other natural vegetation includes tamarind羅望子樹, fig tree無花果樹, acacia arabica金合歡阿拉伯咖啡, and, in the desert regions, sparse scatterings of salt bush and grasses such as alfalfa苜蓿 and esparto茅草.

The only forested area is the Jabal al-Akhdar, where juniper 杜松and mastic乳香樹脂 trees can be found, but this covers only about 1% of Libya's total land area.

Fauna 動物區系 include desert rodents嚙齒目動物, hyena鬣狗, wildcat野貓, porcupine豪豬 and gazelle瞪羚. Bird life consists of carrion-eaters such as the vulture, and birds of prey such as the eagle and hawk. Many other migrant birds are often blown into the Sahara en route for l

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Climate

The coastal region has a Mediterranean climate, with average temperatures in Tripoli ranging from 30°C (86°F) in summer to 8°C (46°F).

Rainfall is mostly during the winter months and averages 380mm (15 inches) annually. Coastal towns can be humid, with levels as high as 80% in Tripolitania.

The mountain regions experience more rainfall, particularly during the winter and early spring. Summers here are cooler than on the coastal plain.

Southern Libya has a desert climate with daytime winter temperatures ranging between 15 and 20°C, falling below zero at night. During the summer months there is virtually no rainfall and temperatures soar to over 50°C.

In the north-west a scorching wind焚風, known as the ghibli, blows from the Sahara along the coast at the time of the spring solstice. This causes a sharp drop in humidity and a dramatic rise in temperature.

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Desert oases and the water supply

In Libya's desert region, the three largest oases are Al-Kufrah, Ghat and Ghudamis. Here, underground water resources are tapped by means of shallow wells.

Wadi Ki

The Wadi Derna in Cyrenaica contains flowing water for a large part of the year, and provides water for irrigation of the surrounding land. In consequence, this is a comparatively fertile area肥沃區域. The spectacular gorge which runs through the Green Mountains in the north-east is formed by the waterless Wadi Al-Kuf.

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Topography 　地勢

Libya is situated in northern Africa, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north. Egypt lies to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, Nigeria to the west and Tunisia to the northwest.

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There are a few scattered uninhabited small oases, usually linked to the major depressions, where water can be found by digging to a few feet in depth. In the west there is a widely dispersed group of oases in unconnected shallow depressions, the Kufra group, consisting of Tazerbo, Rebiana and Kufra. Aside the scarps, the general flatness is only interrupted by a series of plateaus and massifs near the centre of the Libyan Desert, around the convergence of the Egyptian-Sudanese-Libyan Borders.

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