Area: 1.76 million square km, 95 percent desert or semi-desert

Population: 6.2 million, 90 percent Arab

Capital: Tripoli, population 1.7 million

Oil reserves: 43 billion barrels

Gas reserves: 1.48 trillion cubic meters

Economic pillar: the oil sector, accounting for more than 95 percent of Libya's annual export revenue

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)