To the north, Sirte District has a shoreline on the Mediterranean Sea and is bordered by Al Wahat in the east, Jufra in the south, Jabal al Gharbi in the west and Misrata in the northwest.

Sirte is an interim destination of a coastal railway from Tunisia to Benghazi that began construction in 2007.

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

There were 7,222 workers in state administration, 4,864 in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry, 5,126 in agriculture & hunting, 6,803 in education, 6,341 in private enterprises, 1,500 in health & social work, 2,833 in production, 8,037 in technical work and 448 service workers.

The total enrollment in schools was 51,336 and the number of people above secondary stage and less than graduation was 2,740.

[8] Libya became independent in 1951 from the colonial empire and generally known for its oil rich resources.

[9] 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.