Basic People's Congress (country subdivision)

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Basic People's Congress Arabic: مؤتمر شعبي أساسي‎ (Mu'tamar shaʿbi asāsi ) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Libya. Geographically it corresponds approximately to the level of a township or borough.

Under Muammar Gaddafi's Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya regime, political caucuses and committees of the Basic People's Congress operated at this level.^[1] Representatives from the Basic People's Congresses regulated operations at the higher shabiyah (district) level.^[1]

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References

• Law, Gwillim (1999) "Libya" Administrative subdivisions of countries McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, p. 219, ISBN 0-7864-0729-8