|subdivision_type1      = Region
|subdivision_name1      = [[Cyrenaica]]
|subdivision_type2      = [[Destricts o Libie|Destrict]]
|subdivision_name2      = Benghazi
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|established_title      =  Settled<!-- Settled -->
|established_date       = as '''''Euesperides''''' (''circa'' 525 BC)
|established_title2     =  Renamit<!-- Incorporated (town) -->
|established_date2      = {{•}}'''''Berenice''''' (''circa'' middle of 3rd century BC)<br />{{•}}'''''Hesperides'''''{{clarify|date=September 2011|reason=prose is unclear on time period}}<br />{{•}}'''''Barneeq''''' (''circa'' middle of 7th century AD)<br />{{•}}'''''Marsa ibn Ghazi''''' (''circa'' 16t century)<br />{{•}}'''''Bani Ghazi'''''{{clarify|date=September 2011|reason=prose is unclear/vague, it seems, on this renaming date.}}<br />{{•}}'''Benghazi'''{{clarify|date=September 2011|reason=prose is unclear/vague, it seems, on this renaming date.}}
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|area_blank1_km2          = 60
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|population_as_of               = 2011
|population_footnotes           =<ref name=population>[http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-25431.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006065516/http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-25431.html |date=2014-10-06 }}.  ''[[Der Spiegel]]''. 23 August 2011</ref>
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|population_total               = over 650,000
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|elevation_footnotes    =  <ref name=wolfram>[http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Benghazi Wolfram Alpha]</ref>
|elevation_m            = 2
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|area_code              = 061
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