Baladiyat of Libya


The Baladiyah, or baladiyat, is the current second-level administration subdivision of Libya being reintroduced in 2012 by the General National Congress with Law 59 on the system of local administration, dividing the country into governorates and districts, with baladiyah having local councils.
Baladiyah is an Arabic word used in many Arab countries to denote administrative divisions of a country.

History

Baladiyat were first introduced in Libya in 1983 to replace the governorate system. The ten existing governorates were replaced with forty-six baladiyat, but in 1988 that number was reduced to twenty-five baladiyat. In 1995 they were replaced by shabiyat. For Libya, the baladiyat are usually known in English as "districts" and sometimes as "municipalities", but the municipal level under the baladiyat and subsequent shabiyat systems was the Basic People's Congress. After the fall of Gaddafi and the transfer of government from the interim National Transitional Council to the elected General National Congress, the previous shabiyat and Basic People's Congress system was deemed inappropriate, and a revised system was authorized with governorates as the primary division and districts as their subdivision, with baladiyat having local councils. This was implemented in part by the Council of Ministers with resolution No. 180 in July 2013, creating the baladiyah. There were originally ninety-nine baladiyat listed for Libya, but by March 2015 that number had grown to 108. The first-level administration subdivisions, the governorates, have yet to be created due to a vested interest in maintaining decentralized governance, and the continuing civil war.

1988

The table hereunder lists the old twenty-five baladiyat in alphabetical order with a link to each one and numbered to be located on the map. Note that each district linked may be both a baladiyah and a shabiyah. The many changes may not always be reflected in the linked article.
NumberNameRegion
1AjdabiyaCyreneica
2‘AziziyaTripolitania
3ButnanCyreneica
4FatiCyreneica
5Jabal al AkhdarCyreneica
6JufraFezzan
7KhomsTripolitania
8KufraCyreneica
9Nuqat al KhamsTripolitania
10Wadi al ShatiiFezzan
11UbariFezzan
12ZawiyaTripolitania
13BenghaziCyreneica
14DernaCyreneica
15GhadamesTripolitania
16GharyanTripolitania
17MisrataTripolitania
18MurzuqFezzan
19SabhaFezzan
20SawfajjinTripolitania
21SirteTripolitania
22TripoliTripolitania
23TarhunaTripolitania
24YafranTripolitania
25ZlitanTripolitania

2013

Below is a list of the 94 baladiyat in Libya as created July 2013.
NumberNameDistrictRegion
1TobrukButnan 'Cyrenecia
2MusaidButnanCyrenecia
3JaghbubButnanCyrenecia
4DernaDerna 'Cyrenecia
5Al QubahQubah 'Cyrenecia
6AbraqDernaCyrenecia
7BaydaJebel Akhdar 'Cyrenecia
8CyreneJebel AkhdarCyrenecia
9Sahel El-JebelJebel AkhdarCyrenecia
10Umm al RizamDernaCyrenecia
11MarjMarj 'Cyrenecia
12Jardas al ‘AbidMarjCyrenecia
13TocraMarjCyrenecia
14AbyarMarjCyrenecia
15QaminisBenghaziCyrenecia
16SuluqBenghaziCyrenecia
17BenghaziBenghazi 'Cyrenecia '
18AjdabiyaAl Wahat 'Cyrenecia
19BregaAl WahatCyrenecia
20KufraKufra 'Cyrenecia
21TazirbuKufraCyrenecia
22AwjilaAl WahatCyrenecia
23JikharraAl WahatCyrenecia
24JaluAl WahatCyrenecia
25MaradaAl WahatCyrenecia
26Gulf of SidraSirteTripolitania
27SirteSirte 'Tripolitania
28ZamzamSirteTripolitania
29HunJufra 'Fezzan
30Shatii ShargiWadi ShatiiFezzan
31Shatii GarbiWadi ShatiiFezzan
32SebhaSebha 'Fezzan '
33MurzukMurzuk 'Fezzan
34EshargiaMurzukFezzan
35Wadi UtbaWadi ShatiiFezzan
36TraghanMurzukFezzan
37UbariWadi al Ajal 'Fezzan
38GhatGhat 'Fezzan
39Bent BayehWadi al AjalFezzan
40MisurataMisurata 'Tripolitania
41ZlitenMurqubTripolitania
42Al KhumsMurqub 'Tripolitania
43EssahlMurqubTripolitania
44Qasr KhiarMurqubTripolitania
45MsallataMurqubTripolitania
46TarhunaMurqubTripolitania
47Bani WalidMisurataTripolitania
48CastelverdeTripoliTripolitania
49TajuraTripoliTripolitania
50Tripoli 'Tripoli 'Tripolitania '
51SuaniTripoliTripolitania
52Qasr bin GhashirTripoliTripolitania
53JanzurTripoliTripolitania
54AndalusTripoliTripolitania
55Wadi RabieTripoliTripolitania
56Abu SaleemTripoliTripolitania
57SbaieaTripoliTripolitania
58Sidi SaehTripoliTripolitania
59Souq ElkhamisMurqubTripolitania
60Souq al Jum'aaTripoliTripolitania
61‘AziziyaJafara 'Tripolitania
62ZahraJafaraTripolitania
63ZawiyaZawiya 'Tripolitania
64Western ZawiyaZawiyaTripolitania
65Al MayaZawiyaTripolitania
66ZuwarahNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
67SabrathaZawiyaTripolitania
68SormanZawiyaTripolitania
69JumaylNuqat al Khams 'Tripolitania
70ZaltanNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
71AjaylatNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
72ReqdalinNuqat al KhamsTripolitania
73Baten EljabelNafusa MountainsTripolitania
74GharyanNafusa Mountains 'Tripolitania
75YafranNafusa MountainsTripolitania
76KiklaNafusa MountainsTripolitania
77SormanNafusa MountainsTripolitania
78JaduNafusa MountainsTripolitania
79RhibatNafusa MountainsTripolitania
80RyainaNafusa MountainsTripolitania
81Asbi'aNafusa MountainsTripolitania
82RijbanNafusa MountainsTripolitania
83ZintanNafusa MountainsTripolitania
84Dahr EljabalNafusa MountainsTripolitania
85HarabaNafusa MountainsTripolitania
86NalutNalut 'Tripolitania
87WazzinNalutTripolitania
88El HouamedNalutTripolitania
89KabawNalutTripolitania
90NesmaNalutTripolitania
91EshgigaMurqubTripolitania
92GhadamesNalutTripolitania
93QayqabDernaCyrenecia
94Bi'r al AshhabButnanCyrenecia
95QatrunMurzukFezzan
96TawerghaMisurataTripolitania
97AlghoraifaWadi al AjalFezzan
98DawonMurqubTripolitania
99ElgurdaWadi ShatiiFezzan