Official Name

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Capital

Tripoli

Currency

Dinar (LYD)

Population

2007 Estimate = 6,036,914

Main Languages

Arabic. Italian and English widely understood in major cities

Total GDP

$78.79 billion (2007 est.)

Real GDP Growth

5.4% (2007 est.)

Main Economic Sector

Industries: petroleum, iron and steel, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement.
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas

India - Libya Trade Relation

	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999
India's Exports	87.27	116.01	101.81	51.83
India's Imports	206.71	142.65	12	14.44

India exports to Libya are tea, tobacco, agricultural commodities, engineering goods, chemicals, drugs & pharmaceuticals, textiles, manufactures of metals and jute products, India imports are fertilizers and organic chemicals. Libyan crude oil is not suited to our requirements.

During the oil boom years, several public and private sector Indian companies participated in construction and development activities in Libya. In late 1970s, Indian companies were involved in projects in Libya worth more than US$ 2 billion. A large number of doctors, nurses, engineers, university professors and workers were employed in Libya. By the early 1980s, their number had touched a peak of 40,000.

Cultural Relations

28. Libyan draft of Executive Programme for Scientific Information and Cultural Cooperation between India and Libya for the years 1998-99 2000 is being examined by the Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development. Their response is awaited.

Main Contact in New Delhi

H. E. The Ambassador
People's Bureau of the Great Sociali
Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiri
22, Golf Link, New Delhi - 110003.
Tel. : 24697717 / 24697771 / Fax : 24633005
Email : libya_bu__ind@yahoo.com

Indian Embassy

16-18, Shara Mahmoud Shaltot,
Garden City, PO Box 3150, Tripoli, Libya.
Telephone: 00-218-21-4441835
Fax: 00-218-21-3337560
Email: indembrip@hotmail.com

Chamber of Commerce

Benghazi Chamber of Commerce, Trade, Industry, & Agriculture

P.O. Box 208, Sharia Gamal Abdul Nasser
Benghazi, Libya. Tel. : (218) 95142

Federation of Chambers of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture

P.O. Box 2321, Tripoli Libya
Phone: (218) 21-33755

Tripoli Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture

PO Box 12556, Boulevard Street
Tripoli, Libya. Tel. : (218) 21- 34539

Visa Procedure

Visitors require a visa, normally valid for 3 months and to be used within 45 days of issue.

Visa allocation is carefully controlled, and mostly confined to those actually working in Libya.

Main Tourist Attraction

The first place that comes en route to Tripoli, is the magnificent World Heritage site of Sabratah (Sabrata, Sabratha) located on the beautiful Mediterranean coastline.

Libya attractions to the tourist is in the rich archaeological sites centered along the Mediterranean Sea, in the desert in areas like Ghaddames, 300 Kms. south of Tripoli.

Main Imports

$10.82 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): machinery, transport equipment, semi-finished goods, food, consumer products.

Main Exports

$30.79 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas.

Airport & Harbour

Agedabia, Beida, Benghazi, Ghadames, Ghat, Hon, Kufra, Marsa Brega, Misratah, Sabha, Sirt, Tobruk, Tripoli & Ubari.
Al Khums, Banghazi, Darnah, Marsa al Burayqah, Misratah, Ra's Lanuf, Tobruk, Tripoli, Zuwarah.

Photographs of Historical monuments & Tourist attraction