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Tarabulus Governorate
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Tarabulus Governorate or Tripoli Governorate was one of the governorates (muhafazah) of Libya from 1963 to 1983.[1] It contained the city of Tripoli, which was also its administrative capital.[2] Tarabulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, and was sometimes applied to the entire Tripolitania province.
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The governorate's population was 379,925 in 1964 and had risen to 544,842 by 1972.[3] Although Tarabulus Governorate constituted less than 1% of the land area in Libya, more than 25% of the population lived there, with a density about five times greater than the mean of the other governorates.[4]