Benghazi

Benghazi  (  , Libyan Arabic:  , ; ; an aa: Bengasi, Benghasi, Banghāzī, Binghāzī, Bengazi, Berenice an Hesperides) is the seicont lairgest ceety in Libie. The wider metropolitan aurie (which includes the soothren touns o Gimeenis an Suluq) is an aa a destrict o Libie. The port ceety is locatit on the Mediterranean Sea.

Durin the Kinrick era o Libie's history, Benghazi enjoyed a sort o jynt-caipital status (alangside Tripoli), possibly acause the Keeng uised tae reside in the nearbi ceety o Al Bayda' an the Senussis (ryal faimily) in general wur associatit wi Cyrenaica rather than Tripolitanie.
Benghazi continues tae hauld institutions an organisations normally associatit wi a naitional caipital ceety. This creates a constant atmosphere o rivalry an sensitivities atween Benghazi an Tripoli an bi extension atween the twa regions (Cyrenaica an Tripolitanie). The population o the entire destrict wis 500,120 in 1995 (census) an haes increased tae 670,797 in the 2006 census.

Admeenistrative diveesions
Benghazi is ane o Libie's 22 shabiyahs (destricts). Benghazi shabiyah is dividit intae 32 Basic Fowkcongress admeenistrative diveesions, in which the responsibilities o the correspondin poleetical units o the same name faw.
The offeecial 32 destricts o Benghazi are:
1 Al-Magroon
2 Al-Saahil al-Gharbi
3 Karkoora
4 Gimeenis
5 Suluq
6 Al-Khadhraa
7 Al-Nawagiya
8 Al-Magziha
9 Al-Keesh
10 Garyounis
11 Al-Fuwayhat12 Al-Berka
13 Bu-Fakhra
14 Jarrutha
15 Al-Quwarsha
16 Bu Atni
17 Benina
18 Al-Kwayfiya
19 Sidi Khalifa
20 Al-Hawari
21 Al-Thawra al-Shabiyah
22 Shuhadaa al-Salawi23 Madinat Benghazi
24 Sidi Hsayn
25 Al-Sabri
26 Sidi Abayd
27 Al-Salmani
28 Raas Abayda
29 Benghazi al-Jadida
30 Al-Uruba
31 Hay al-Mukhtar
32 Al-Hadaa'iq

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Category:525 BC establishments
Category:Auncient Greek steids in Libie
Category:Populatit places in Libie
Category:Populatit coastal places in Libie
Category:Destricts o Libie
Category:Roman steids in Libie
Category:Populatit places established in the 6t century BC
Category:Theran colonies
Category:Mediterranean port ceeties an touns in Libie
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