{"population":7381023,"blurb":{"text":"Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. With an area of almost 1.8 million km2 (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth-largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and the 16th-largest in the world. The country claims 32,000 square kilometres of southeastern Algeria, south of the Libyan town of Ghat. The capital and largest city is Tripoli, located in the northwest and containing over a million of Libya's seven million people.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya"},"vexillology":{"text":"The national flag of Libya was originally introduced in 1951, following the creation of the Kingdom of Libya. It was designed by Omar Faiek Shennib and approved by King Idris Al Senussi who comprised the UN delegation representing the three regions of Cyrenaica, Fezzan, and Tripolitania at UN unification discussions.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Libya"},"flagDesign":null,"photos":["https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Archaeological_Site_of_Sabratha-108976.jpg/500px-Archaeological_Site_of_Sabratha-108976.jpg","https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Bazin.jpg/500px-Bazin.jpg","https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Bouri_NC_41_DP4_platform.jpg/500px-Bouri_NC_41_DP4_platform.jpg","https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Capture_of_Tripoli_by_the_Ottomans_1551.jpg/500px-Capture_of_Tripoli_by_the_Ottomans_1551.jpg"],"absent":["flagDesign"]}