Tirana
Tirana County, officially the County of Tirana, is a county in the Central Region of Albania. It is the tenth largest by area and the most populous of the twelve counties according to the 2023 Census, with about 760,000 inhabitants within an area of 1,652 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: county of Albania with 759,000 residents
- Description: county of Albania
- Also known as: “AL022”, “Qarku Tirane”, and “Tirana County”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tirana Zoo and Botanical Garden of Tirana.
Tirana Zoo
Park
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Zoopark Tirana is a public zoo located in Tirana, Albania. It is the only zoo of its kind in the country. Built during 1960–1961, the zoo is concentrated in an area of 6.09 ha in the southern part of the city, between the Grand Park and the Botanical Gardens. Tirana Zoo is situated 5 km northeast of Tirana.
Botanical Garden of Tirana
Garden
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The Botanical Gardens of Tirana is a botanical gardens complex located in southern Tirana, Albania. It is the only botanical gardens complex in Albania. Botanical Garden of Tirana is situated 5 km north of Tirana.
Petrelë Castle
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Petrelë Castle is a castle in Petrelë, central Albania. Its history dates back to the 6th century, when it was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. Petrelë Castle is situated 6 km east of Tirana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tirana and Petrela.
Tirana
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Tirana is the bustling and relatively modernised capital of Albania. It is the most important economic, financial, political and trade centre in the country.
Petrela
Village
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Petrela is a village and a former municipality 15 km south of Tirana county in central Albania, with a population of 5,500 in 2011. Petrela is situated 6 km east of Tirana.
Ish-Blloku
Quarter
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Ish-Blloku, commonly Blloku, is an upmarket area in Tirana, Albania. It widely known as an entertainment destination with its boutiques, shops, restaurants, trendy bars, pubs, and cafes. Ish-Blloku is situated 7 km northeast of Tirana.
Tirana
- Location: Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Tirana” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Qarku i Tiranës”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تيرانا”
- Aragonese: “Condato de Tirana”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura de Tirana”
- Aragonese: “Prefeutura de Tirana”
- Armenian: “Տիրանայի գավառ”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Tirana”
- Azerbaijani: “Tirana vilayəti”
- Basque: “Tirana konderria”
- Belarusian: “вобласць Тырана”
- Belarusian: “Тырана”
- Belarusian: “Тыранская вобласьць”
- Bosnian: “Okrug Tirana”
- Breton: “Tirana”
- Bulgarian: “Тирана”
- Catalan: “comtat de Tirana”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Tirana”
- Cebuano: “Qarku i Tiranës”
- Chinese: “Tirana Koān”
- Chinese: “地拉那州”
- Croatian: “Okrug Tirana”
- Croatian: “Tiranski okrug”
- Czech: “Kraj Tiranë”
- Czech: “Tirana”
- Danish: “Tirana”
- Danish: “Tiranë”
- Dutch: “Tirana”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Tirana”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Tiranë”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Tirano”
- Estonian: “Tirana maakond”
- Estonian: “Tiranë maakond”
- Extremaduran: “Condalgu de Tirana”
- Extremaduran: “qarku de Tirana”
- Finnish: “Tiranan maakunta”
- French: “comté de Tirana”
- French: “préfecture de Tirana”
- French: “Préfecture de Tirana”
- French: “qarku de Tirana”
- French: “région de Tirana”
- French: “Tirana”
- Galician: “Condado de Tirana”
- Georgian: “ტირანის ოლქი”
- German: “AL-11”
- German: “Qark Tirana”
- German: “Qarku i Tiranës”
- Greek: “Νομός Τιράνων”
- Hebrew: “מחוז טיראנה”
- Hindi: “तिराना प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Tirana megye”
- Ido: “Komtio Tiranë”
- Indonesian: “County Tiranë”
- Irish: “Contae Tiranë”
- Italian: “prefettura di Tirana”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Tirana”
- Japanese: “ティラナ州”
- Javanese: “County Tirana”
- Kongo: “Tirana”
- Korean: “티라나주”
- Korean: “티라너 주”
- Latin: “Praefectura Tyranensis”
- Latvian: “Tirānas apgabals”
- Latvian: “Tirānas ķarka”
- Lithuanian: “Tiranos apskritis”
- Lombard: “Prefettura de Tirana”
- Macedonian: “Тирана”
- Mazanderani: “تیرانا شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tirana Koān”
- Minangkabau: “County Tirana”
- Mongolian: “Тиран хошуу”
- Mongolian: “Тирана муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Tirana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiranë”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Tirana”
- Norwegian: “Tiranë”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Prefectura de Tiranë”
- Persian: “شهرستان تیرانا”
- Polish: “Obwód Tirana”
- Portuguese: “Tirana”
- Portuguese: “Tiranë”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Tirana”
- Russian: “область Тирана”
- Russian: “Тирана”
- Scots: “Tirana Coonty”
- Serbian: “Округ Тирана”
- Sinhala: “ටිරානා ප්රාන්තය, ඇල්බේනියාව”
- Slovak: “Tirana”
- Slovenian: “AL-11”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Tirana”
- Slovenian: “Qarku i Tiranës”
- Spanish: “Condado de Tirana”
- Spanish: “Condado de Tirane”
- Spanish: “Condado de Tiranë”
- Swedish: “Tirana län”
- Swedish: “Tirana prefektur”
- Swedish: “Tiranë prefektur”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Tirana”
- Thai: “มณฑลติรานา”
- Turkish: “Tiran ili”
- Turkish: “Tiran”
- Ukrainian: “Тирана”
- Urdu: “صوبہ تیرانا”
- Vietnamese: “Tirana”
- Vietnamese: “Tiranë”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tirana”
- Welsh: “Swydd Tirana”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ تیرانا”
- Wu Chinese: “地拉那州”
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