Rukaj
Rukaj is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mat. The population at the 2011 census was 2,507.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: municipal unit in Dibër, Albania
- Address: MAT
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burgajet and Burrel.
Burgajet
Village
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burgajet is a village in the former Municipality of Lis, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Mat. Burgajet is notable for the Albanian royal family, which traces its origin to King Zog, born in Burgajet Castle. Burgajet is situated 6 km southeast of Rukaj.
Burrel
Photo: Visar Kola, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Burrel is a town in northeastern Albania and the administrative center of Mati District. Since 2015, it is part of Mati Municipality. The town of Burreli is located about 91 km from the capital of Albania, Tirana. Its population, in 2011 census, was 10,862.
Rukaj
- Categories: bashkia, Communes of Albania, and locality
- Location: Komuna e Rukajt, Mat, Dibër County, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.67966° or 41° 40′ 47″ northLongitude
20.01491° or 20° 0′ 54″ eastElevation
332 metres (1,089 feet)Open location code
8GH2M2H7+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 728421316OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Rukaj” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Komuna Rukaj”
- Albanian: “Njësia administrative Rukaj”
- Catalan: “Rukaj”
- Cebuano: “Komuna e Rukajt”
- Dutch: “Rukaj”
- French: “Rukaj”
- Hungarian: “Rukaj”
- Italian: “Rukaj”
- Malay: “Rukaj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rukaj”
- Polish: “Gmina Rukaj”
- Portuguese: “Rukaj”
- Spanish: “Rukaj”
- Swedish: “Komuna e Rukajt”
- Turkish: “Rukaj”
- Uzbek: “Rukaj”
- Vietnamese: “Rukaj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rukaj”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rukaj”. Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.