Ajdabiya Municipality

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Ajdabiya - أجدابية
Capital Ajdabiya
Residents 165,839  (as of 2003)
surface 91,620  km²
Population density 1.81 inhabitants per km²
Coordinates 30 ° 45 ′  N , 20 ° 13 ′  E Coordinates: 30 ° 45 ′  N , 20 ° 13 ′  E
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The location of Ajdabiya in Libya

Ajdabiya ( Arabic أجدابية Adschdābiya , DMG Aǧdābīya ) is a former municipality that was located in the central north of the Libyan Arab Republic near the Great Syrte . It merged with the administrative reform of 2007 in the enlarged municipality al-Wahat , with Ajdabiya becoming thecapital of the new municipality.

geography

165,839 people (as of 2003) lived in the former area of ​​Ajdabiya, 84 percent of them (140,558 inhabitants, as of 2006) in the capital of the same name, Ajdabiya . The municipality covered an area of ​​91,620 km². Ajdabiya borders the Mediterranean Sea and the following former municipalities: