Jabal al Akhdar or The Green Mountain (Arabic: الجبل الأخضر al-Jabal al-Akhḍar)[2] is one of the districts of Libya.

On land, it borders Derna in the east, Al Wahat in the south and Marj in the west.

There were 18,290 workers in state administration, 2,749 in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry, 3,148 in agriculture & hunting, 22,772 in education, 4,954 in private enterprises, 3,319 in health & social work, 4,465 in production, 22,846 in technical work and 1,341 service workers.

Libya has mostly a flat undulating plain and occasional plateau, with an average elevation of around 423 m (1,388 ft).

All the powers rested centrally with the Brotherly Leader Gaddafi, for 42 years till the 2011 armed rebellion which topple him.

[9] As per the constitution, Libya is the most decentralized Arab nation, but practically all powers are vested on central government on account of control over the oil revenues.

As a part of decentralization in 2012, the country is administratively split into 13 regions from the original 25 municipalities, which were further divided in 1,500 communes.