Peqin
Peqin is a town and municipality in Elbasan County, central Albania. The municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Gjoçaj, Karinë, Pajovë, Peqin, Përparim and Shezë, that became municipal units.
- Town with about 6,350 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (160 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Claudiana”
- Description: town in Albania
- Address: PEQIN, 3501
- Postal code: 3501
- Also known as“Pecin”“Pekinj”“Peqinj”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clock Mosque and Peqin Castle.
Peqin Castle
The Peqin Castle is a ruined Ottoman Turkish castle in Peqin, Albania.
Peqin railway station
Peqin railway station is a railway station serving the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kodrasej and Hasdushk.
Rrogozhinë
Rrogozhinë is a town and a municipality… Rrogozhinë is situated 8 km northwest of Peqin.
Peqin
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Latitude
41.04613° or 41° 2′ 46″ north
Longitude
19.74945° or 19° 44′ 58″ east
Open location code
8FHX2PWX+FQ
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Peqin” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Peqin”
- Albanian: “Peqin”
- Albanian: “Peqini”
- Amharic: “ፐኪን”
- Arabic: “بجين”
- Arabic: “بيكين”
- Asturian: “Peqin”
- Azerbaijani: “Peçini”
- Azerbaijani: “Pekin”
- Bengali: “পেকিন”
- Bulgarian: “Пекин”
- Cebuano: “Peqin (kapital sa distrito sa Albanya)”
- Cebuano: “Peqin”
- Chinese: “佩今”
- Chinese: “佩欽”
- Chinese: “佩钦”
- Czech: “Peqin”
- Danish: “Peqin”
- Dutch: “Peqin”
- Dutch: “Peqini”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بجين”
- Finnish: “Peqin”
- French: “Pekin”
- French: “Peqin”
- French: “Peqini”
- Galician: “Peqin”
- German: “Pekin”
- German: “Peqin”
- German: “Peqini”
- Greek: “Πεκίν”
- Gujarati: “પેકિન”
- Hausa: “Pekin”
- Hebrew: “פקין (אלבניה)”
- Hebrew: “פקין”
- Hindi: “पेक़िन”
- Hungarian: “Clodiana”
- Hungarian: “Peqin”
- Hungarian: “Peqini”
- Ido: “Peqin”
- Indonesian: “Pekin”
- Indonesian: “Peqin”
- Italian: “Peqin”
- Japanese: “ペチニ”
- Japanese: “ペチン”
- Javanese: “Pekin”
- Kannada: “ಪೀಕಿನ್”
- Kazakh: “Пекин”
- Kirghiz: “Пекин”
- Korean: “페친”
- Latvian: “Pekini”
- Lithuanian: “Pekinis”
- Lithuanian: “Peqin”
- Macedonian: “Пеин”
- Macedonian: “Пекин”
- Macedonian: “Пекињ”
- Malay: “Pekin”
- Malay: “Peqin”
- Maltese: “Peqin”
- Marathi: “पेकिन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Reqin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peqin”
- Norwegian: “Peqin”
- Oromo: “Pekin”
- Panjabi: “ਪੇਕਿਨ”
- Persian: “پکین”
- Polish: “Peqin”
- Portuguese: “Peqin”
- Portuguese: “Pequini”
- Pushto: “پکین”
- Romanian: “Peqin”
- Russian: “Пекин”
- Russian: “Пекини”
- Serbian: “Пекињ”
- Sinhala: “පෙකුඉන්”
- Slovak: “Peqin”
- Somali: “Pekin”
- Spanish: “Pekin”
- Spanish: “Peqin”
- Spanish: “Peqini”
- Swahili: “Pekin”
- Swedish: “Peqin”
- Tajik: “Пекин”
- Tamil: “பெக்கின்”
- Tatar: “Пекин”
- Telugu: “పెకీన్”
- Thai: “เพคิ้น”
- Tumbuka: “Peqin”
- Turkish: “Pekin”
- Turkish: “Peklin”
- Ukrainian: “Пекіні”
- Urdu: “پچین”
- Uzbek: “Pekin”
- Vietnamese: “Peqin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Peqin”
- Western Panjabi: “پچین”
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Notable Places Nearby
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