Geography+of+Morocco+and+Libya

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Libya is a country within Africa and is on the coastline of the Mediterranean sea and borders Eygpt, Algeria, Tunisia, Chad, Niger, and Sudan. Libya is 1,795,540 sq. Kilometers in total and is entirely made of land. To the south of Libya, there is the Sahara Desert and to the West are the highlands. More than 90% of Libya is consumed by desert terrain.

Libya has around 6.4 million people living in it, most being arab, but with some berbers in the western grass lands and some tuareg in the southern part of the country. About almost nine tenths of Libya's population lives on the northern coast of Lybia, around the Mediterranean sea. Southern Lybia is extremely hot out in the desert areas with much less water than the northern side. Rainfall is also a factor that you could be without for several years at a time. Winds known as the dust-laden sirocco can also last for many days at a time during the Spring and Autumn.

Libya has recently become rich from trading the oil and other natural gas that was found from their land. Almost all of Libya's exports are the gases from their fields. Libya however needs to import almost all of their food needs to survive, making a good country to trade with for countries with surpluses of food. Libya mostly gets their imports and exports from Italy.

Immigration is now a huge part of Libya. Over 20% of Libya's population is filled with legal and illegal immigrants. Some of their immigrants were actually people that immigrated to Italy and were forced to Libya. Others were migrating from Southern Africa from persecution, heat, and just a better life in general.

As Southern Libya is almost completely desert, most of the population has become custom to the Mediterranean coastline, but those who stay in the desert have to deal with the lack of water, precipitation, and have to deal with the heat, storms, and the wind and sand storms.

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​ Exports and natural resources - iron ore, manganese, lead, fish, zinc, prosphates, and salt.

Size - Slightly bigger than California.

Land Use - 19% Arable land, 2% permanant crops, 79% other

Natural Hazards - Unstable Northern mountains that are subject to earthquakes, Periodic Droughts.

Strategic Location - Along the Strait of Gibraltar

Population - 35 million

Terrain - Coastal plains, mountains, deserts

Climate - Mediterranean to more extreme in the interior and south

The majority of the people in Morocco live to the west of the Atlas Mountains, which is seperates them from the Sahara Desert. This is also where all the industry and gateways to other places like Spain.

The Moroccan environment has taken a huge toll by the humans living there. The farming land in Morocco suffers from over crowded by animals, poor soil, and large amounts of oil. This has called erosion and desertification. Oils spills, pesticides, and infestations have also occured. Several tons of solid waste is created every year. All of this has effected the environment by endangering over 180 plants, caused many animals to become endangered, and even caused some extinction across some species of animals. The cause of urbanization and agriculture can take a toll on the Morocco's environment.