Basic People's Congress (administrative division)

Basic People's Congress (Arabic: مؤتمر شعبي أساسي, romanized: Mu'tamar shaʿbi asāsi) was the primary administrative division in Libya under the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. It corresponded approximately to the level of a township or borough.

During Muammar Gaddafi's rule, 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]

In July 2013 the shabiyat and Basic People's Congress system was replaced with a new baladiyat system^[2] of ninety-nine first-level administrative divisions.^[3]