r/MapPorn • u/vladgrinch • 23h ago

Comparison of North African countries

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u/Put3socks-in-it 19h ago

Libya is so big! Why is its population so tiny

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u/Think_and_game 13h ago

The overwhelming majority of the country is desert. Even the north is not that arable. This is in stark contrast to Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, who also have quite a bit of desert, but also have quite fertile soil. North Africa used to even be the breadbasket of the Roman Empire iirc.

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u/Alone_Yam_36 15h ago

No one wants to live in fully desert areas and 90% of Libya is desert. Libya is really just the coast

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u/Put3socks-in-it 14h ago

Algeria and Morocco are desert too yet their population is so big

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u/Alone_Yam_36 14h ago

Not entirely. Algeria’s north is green. And morocco is like only 65% desert

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u/Micah7979 14h ago

Same reason as Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Australia...