Cyrenaica province
Cyrenaica province is one of the three traditional Provinces of Libya. It was a formal province from 1934 until 1963, when it was subdivided into the Governorates of Libya. Its capital was the city of Benghazi. Between 1911 and 1934 it had been the separately governed colony of Italian Cyrenaica.
Cyrenaica
برقة | |
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Region | |
Cyrenaica as an administrative unit. It included all of eastern Libya from 1911 to 1963: Italian Cyrenaica from 1911 to 1937 and the Cyrenaica province until 1963. | |
| Coordinates: 31°00′N 22°30′E | |
| Country | Libya |
| Area | |
| • Total | 855,370 km2 (330,260 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 1,613,749 |
| • Density | 1.9/km2 (4.9/sq mi) |
In 1963 the province was split into:
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