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Libya Road & Travel Map by Cartographia (World Travel Maps)

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This map is good as far as it goes, but it is totally missing coverage of the southern part of Libya, as well as most of the eastern border with Egypt. If you plan to do any four wheel drive journeys thrugh the desert, the area you will likely be visiting is the area that is missing from this map. In addition, some significant features (see below) are also missing, even in the areas that the map does cover.

If your visit is primarily to the northern coastal area, then this map offers excellent coverage, and the inset detail maps of Triploi, the Tripoli area, and Benghazi will be quite useful.

One other quirk to be aware of, is that the spelling of many place names is quite different from the spelling used in English-language guidebooks, and this can make it difficult to find a place you have read about. For example, Ubari is spelled Awbari on this map, and the extraordinary lakes nearby do not appear at all. I realize that there are options when transliterating names from one alphabet to another, so these different spellings are not really the mapmakers' "fault", but they do make the map a bit harder to use.