Sirte Destrict

Sirte Destrict (or Sirt or Surt Destrict (Arabic: سرت‎ Surt, pronunciation ), is ane o the destricts o Libie. It lies in the north o the kintra an borders the Gulf o Sidra. Its caipital is the ceety o Sirt. Al-Tahadi University is locatit in Sirt.

Sirte (سرت)
Destrict
Kintra	Libie
Capital	Sirt
Area	77,660 km2 (29,985 sq mi) [1]
Population	141,378 (2006) [2]
Density	2/km2 (5/sq mi)
Map o Libie wi Sirte destrict heichlichtit

Location of Sirte District from 2001 until 2007, under the 32-shabiyat system.

Name

Sirte Destrict shares its name wi the ceety o Sirte, the historically maist important ceety on the Gulf o Sidra. These names derive frae the Greek name for the gulf, the Great Syrtis.^[3]

Bundaries

The bundaries o Sirte Destrict hae chynged several times, maist recently in the 2007 admeenistrative reorganization o Libian destricts (see maps). Frae 1983 tae 1987 the Bin Jawwad Destrict covered pairts o wha is nou pairt o Sirte Destrict.

Tae the north, Sirte District has a shoreline on the Mediterranean Sea. It borders the follaein destricts:

• Al Wahat - east
• Al Jufrah - sooth
• Al Jabal al Gharbi - wast
• Misrata - northwast

Transport

Sirte is an interim destination o a coastal railway frae Tunisie tae Benghazi that began construction in 2007.

Notes

1. before 2007 administrative reorganization
2. "Districts of Libya". statoids.com. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
3. Grote, George (1853) History of Greece: Volume 4 (reprinted from the London 2nd edition) Harper and brothers, New York, page 29, OCLC 2835816; see also Strabo's Geographica Book XVII, Chapter III, Sections 16-18 pages 288-289 here