Albania

Albania is a country in the region of with unspoiled beaches, mountainous landscapes, traditional cuisine, archaeological artefacts, unique traditions, low prices and the wild atmosphere of the countryside.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Tirana and Durrës.

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is the bustling and relatively modernised capital of Albania. It is the most important economic, financial, political and trade centre in the country.

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is Albania's chief port. Located on the shores of the Adriatic, is a lively town, organized around beach culture.

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is a city in . has the largest port in the country after and it is mainly important as a naval port.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Coastal Albania and Southeastern Albania.

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is a region of Albania along the western lowland and coast bordering both the Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea. The coast between Velipoje and Shengjin in the north is characterized by curative sand beaches, and a few lagoons near Lezhe perfect for bird-watching.

is a region of Albania.

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is a region of Albania. A land of high peaks, deep valleys, and timeless traditions. From Mount Korab, the tallest in Albania, to the crystal Lura Lakes and the winding Drin River, this region blends raw natural beauty with rich culture.

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is a town and a former municipality in , south-eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision and the seat of the municipality Devoll.

Albania

  • Type: Country with 3,620,000 residents
  • Description: country in southeastern Europe
  • Also known as: “Ā-lū-bà-nià”, “AL”, “ALB”, “Albaania Vabariik”, “Albán Köztársaság”, “Albána republihkka”, “Albána republijkka”, “Albania dásseváldi”, “Albánia dásseváldi”, “Albania tääʹssväʹldd”, “Albania täsiväldi”, “Albanian tasavalta”, “Albānijas Republika”, “Albanijos Respublika”, “Albaniya Respublikası”, “Albaniýa Respublikasy”, “Albánna”, “Albánska republika”, “Albánská republika”, “ALBR”, “Alvania”, “Arbinișia”, “Arbinuşii”, “Arnaudluq”, “Arnautluk”, “Arnawutiye”, “Cộng hòa Albania”, “Komara Albanyayê”, “la république d’Albanie”, “Lýðveldið Albaniu”, “ma Sikipe”, “People’s Republic of Albania”, “People’s Socialist Republic of Albania”, “Peoples Republic of Albania”, “Repubblica d’Albania”, “Repubblika tal-Albanija”, “Repubilika ya Albania”, “Republic of Albania”, “Republica Albania”, “República d’Albània”, “República da Albânia”, “República de Albania”, “Republiek Albanië”, “Republiek van Albanië”, “Republik Albanien”, “Republika Albanija”, “Republika Albanije”, “Republika ning Albania”, “Republika ning Albanya”, “Republika Popullore e Shqiperise”, “Republika Popullore e Shqipërisë”, “Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqiperise”, “Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë”, “Republiken Albanien”, “Republikken Albanien”, “république d’Albanie”, “Repúbrica d’Albania”, “Sheypeni”, “Shkipeni”, “Shqipenia”, “Shqiperia”, “Shqipërise”, “Shqipërisë”, “Shqipni”, “Shqipnia”, “Shqipnië”, “Shqipnija”, “Shqipri”, “Shqipria”, “Shqiprija”, “Shqypëni”, “Shqypni”, “Sū-chiō-pò-lià”, “yn Albane”, “Ἰλλυρίς”, “Албани республики”, “Албания Республикасы”, “Албания Республикаһы”, “Альбанїя”, “Арнауыҭтәыла Аҳәынҭқарра”, “Бүгд Найрамдах Албани Улс”, “Република Албанија”, “Република Албания”, “Республика Албания”, “Республикэу Албание”, “Республіка Албанія”, “Рэспу́бліка Алба́нія”, “Шкиприя”, “ალბანეთის რესპუბლიკა”, “אלבאניה”, “अल्बानिया गणराज्य”, “गणतन्त्र अल्बानिया”, “আলবানিয়া”, “আলবেনিয়া ৰিপাব্লিক”, “পিপলছ ছ’চিয়েলিষ্ট ৰিপাব্লিক অৱ আলবেনিয়া”, “అల్బేనియా పీపుల్స్ సోషలిస్ట్ రిపబ్లిక్”, “రిపబ్లికా ఇ ష్కిపెరిస్”, “రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ అల్బేనియా”, “ష్కిపెరిస్”, “ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯಾ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ”, “สาธารณรัฐแอลเบเนีย”, “อัลเบเนีย”, “ສາທາລະນະລັດອານບານີ”, “အယ်လ်ဘေးနီးယား သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”, “알바니아 공화국”, and “阿尔巴尼亚共和国”
  • Languages: Albanian and Greek
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, unitary state, republic, Mediterranean country, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
41° north
Longitude of center
20° east
Population
3,620,000
Area
28,748 km² (11,100 miles²)
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
Capital
Currency
Lek (ALL)
Phone code
355
Internet domain
.al
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424310601
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
783754
Wiki­data ID
Q222
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Albania” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Арнауҭтәыла”
  • Abkhazian: “Арнауыҭтәыла”
  • Achinese: “Albania”
  • Adyghe: “Албание”
  • Afrikaans: “Albanië”
  • Akan: “Albenia”
  • Albanian: “Republika e Shqipërisë”
  • Albanian: “Shqipëri”
  • Albanian: “Shqipëria”
  • Amharic: “አልባኒያ”
  • Amis: “Albania”
  • Amis: “Arpaniya”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀλβανία”
  • Angika: “अल्बानिया”
  • Arabic: “ألبانيا”
  • Aragonese: “Albania”
  • Armenian: “Ալբանիա”
  • Arpitan: “Albania”
  • Arpitan: “Albanie”
  • Assamese: “আলবেনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Albania”
  • Atayal: “Albania”
  • Atikamekw: “Albanie”
  • Avaric: “Албан”
  • Avaric: “Албания”
  • Awadhi: “अल्बानिया”
  • Aymara: “Alwaña”
  • Azerbaijani: “Albaniya”
  • Balinese: “Albania”
  • Bambara: “Alibani”
  • Banjar: “Albania”
  • Bashkir: “Албания”
  • Basque: “Albania”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Albania”
  • Batak Toba: “Albania”
  • Bavarian: “Albanien”
  • Bavarian: “Oibanien”
  • Belarusian: “Албанія”
  • Belarusian: “Альбанія”
  • Bengali: “আলবেনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “আলব্যানিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Albani”
  • Bhojpuri: “अल्बानिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলবেনিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Albania”
  • Bosnian: “Albanija”
  • Brahui: “Albáníá”
  • Breton: “Albania”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨒᨅᨕᨊᨗᨕ”
  • Bulgarian: “Албания”
  • Burmese: “အယ်လ်ဘေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အယ်လ်ဘေးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Albània”
  • Cebuano: “Albanya”
  • Central Bikol: “Albanya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Albania”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەلبانیا”
  • Chamorro: “Albania”
  • Chavacano: “Albania”
  • Chechen: “Албани”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎵᏇᏂᏯ”
  • Cheyenne: “Albania”
  • Chinese: “Āěrbāníyà”
  • Chinese: “阿尔巴尼亚 / 阿爾巴尼亞”
  • Chinese: “阿尔巴尼亚”
  • Chinese: “阿爾巴尼亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Алванїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Албани”
  • Cornish: “Albani”
  • Corsican: “Albania”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Arnavutlıq”
  • Croatian: “Albanija”
  • Czech: “Albánie”
  • Dagbani: “Albania”
  • Danish: “Albanien”
  • Dhivehi: “އަލްބޭނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Arnawudiye”
  • Dinka: “Albania”
  • Dotyali: “अल्बानिया”
  • Dutch: “Albanië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨལ་བཱ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨཱལ་བེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨཱལ་བེ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Албаний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البانيا”
  • Emilian: “Albanî”
  • Erzya: “Албания Мастор”
  • Erzya: “Албания Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Albanio”
  • Esperanto: “Albanujo”
  • Estonian: “Albaania”
  • Ewe: “Albania nutome”
  • Ewe: “Albania”
  • Extremaduran: “Albaña”
  • Extremaduran: “Albania”
  • Farefare: “Albania”
  • Faroese: “Albania”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Albania”
  • Fijian: “Alabania”
  • Finnish: “Albania”
  • French: “Albanie”
  • Friulian: “Albanie”
  • Fulah: “Albanii”
  • Fulah: “Albaniya”
  • Gagauz: “Albaniya”
  • Galician: “Albania”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿爾巴尼亞”
  • Ganda: “Albania”
  • Ganda: “Alibaniya”
  • Georgian: “ალბანეთი”
  • German: “Albanien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Albania”
  • Gilaki: “آلباني”
  • Goan Konkani: “Albania”
  • Goan Konkani: “अल्बानिया”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αλβανία”
  • Guarani: “Avaña”
  • Guarani: “Ayváña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Albani”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્બેનિયા”
  • Gujarati: “આલ્બેનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Albani”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Albania”
  • Hausa: “Albaniya”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAlepania”
  • Hebrew: “אלבניה”
  • Hindi: “अल्बानिया”
  • Hindi: “अल्बेनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Albánia”
  • Iban: “Albania”
  • Icelandic: “Albanía”
  • Ido: “Albania”
  • Igala: “Albania”
  • Igbo: “Albania”
  • Iloko: “Albania”
  • Inari Sami: “Albania”
  • Indonesian: “Albania”
  • Interlingua: “Albania”
  • Interlingue: “Albania”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᐅᐸᐃᓂᐊ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᓪᐹᓂᐊ”
  • Inupiaq: “Albania”
  • Irish: “an Albáin”
  • Irish: “An Albáin”
  • Italian: “Albania”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Albienia”
  • Japanese: “アルバニア”
  • Japanese: “アルバニア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Albani”
  • Javanese: “Albania”
  • Jèrriais: “Albannie”
  • Kabardian: “Албаниэ”
  • Kabardian: “Арнаутие”
  • Kabiyè: “Alɩbanii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Albánia”
  • Kabyle: “Albanya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Albania”
  • Kalaallisut: “Albania”
  • Kalmyk: “Арнгудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Albaniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Албания”
  • Karekare: “Albaniya”
  • Kashmiri: “البانیہ”
  • Kashmiri: “اَلبانیہ”
  • Kashmiri: “اؠلبانِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Albańskô”
  • Kazakh: “Албания”
  • Khmer: “អាល់បានី”
  • Kikuyu: “Albania”
  • Kikuyu: “Arũmbĩnia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Alubaniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Албания”
  • Kölsch: “Albanien”
  • Komering: “Albania”
  • Komering: “Albaniya”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Штиприя”
  • Komi: “Албания”
  • Kongo: “Albania”
  • Korean: “알바니아”
  • Kotava: “Skiperia”
  • Kurdish: “Albanya”
  • Kurdish: “ئەڵبانیا”
  • Ladin: “Albania”
  • Ladino: “Albania”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອານບານີ”
  • Lao: “ແອລເບເນຍ”
  • Lao: “ແອວເບເນຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Albaneja”
  • Latin: “Albania”
  • Latvian: “Albānija”
  • Lezghian: “Албания”
  • Ligurian: “Albania”
  • Limburgan: “Albanië”
  • Lingala: “Albania”
  • Lingala: “Alibani”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Xciperia”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿爾巴尼亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Albanija”
  • Liv: “Albānij”
  • Livvi: “Albuanii”
  • Lojban: “gugdeʼalu”
  • Lombard: “Albania”
  • Low German: “Albanië”
  • Low German: “Albanien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Albańska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Alubani”
  • Lule Sami: “Albádna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Albanien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arbinishia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arbinishii”
  • Macedonian: “Албанија”
  • Madurese: “Albania”
  • Magahi: “अल्बानिया”
  • Maithili: “अल्बानिया”
  • Malagasy: “Albania”
  • Malay: “Albania”
  • Malay: “البانيا”
  • Malayalam: “അൽബേനിയ”
  • Maltese: “Albanija”
  • Maltese: “l-Albanija”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯜꯕꯥꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “yn Albaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Albaan”
  • Maori: “Arapeinia”
  • Marathi: “अल्बानिया”
  • Marathi: “आल्बेनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “آلبانی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Albania”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Albania”
  • Minangkabau: “Albania”
  • Mingrelian: “ალბანეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Albánia”
  • Moksha: “Албания”
  • Mongolian: “Албани”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ألبانيا”
  • Mossi: “Albania”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߟߌߓߊߣߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Arbainiya”
  • Navajo: “Dziłgaiiʼnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Albania”
  • Neapolitan: “Albanie”
  • Nepali: “अल्बानिया”
  • Nepali: “अल्बेनिया”
  • Newari: “अल्बानिया”
  • Nias: “Albania”
  • North Ndebele: “Albania”
  • Northern Frisian: “Albaanien/öö”
  • Northern Frisian: “Albaanien”
  • Northern Luri: “آلبانی”
  • Northern Sami: “Albania”
  • Northern Sami: “Albánia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Albania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Albania”
  • Norwegian: “Albania”
  • Novial: “Albania”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Albania”
  • Nyanja: “Albania”
  • Obolo: “Alibania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Albania”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܒܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Albania”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Albānland”
  • Oriya: “ଆଲବାନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Albeeniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Албани”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အယ်ဗေးနီးယားခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “अल्बानिया”
  • Pampanga: “Albania”
  • Pampanga: “Albanya”
  • Pangasinan: “Shqip”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਬਾਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Albania”
  • Pedi: “Albania”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Albaani”
  • Persian: “آلبانی”
  • Persian: “آلبانیا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Albanien”
  • Picard: “Albanie”
  • Piemontese: “Albanìa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Elbanya”
  • Polish: “Albania”
  • Pontic: “Αλβανία”
  • Portuguese: “Albânia”
  • Pushto: “البانیا”
  • Pushto: “البانیه”
  • Quechua: “Albania”
  • Quechua: “Albaniya”
  • Quechua: “Albanya”
  • Quechua: “Alpania”
  • Romanian: “Albania”
  • Romansh: “Albania”
  • Rundi: “Albaniya”
  • Rundi: “Alubaniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Албани”
  • Russian: “Албания”
  • Rusyn: “Албанія”
  • Sakizaya: “Albania”
  • Samoan: “Alapenia”
  • Samoan: “Albania”
  • Samogitian: “Albanėjė”
  • Sango: “Albanïi”
  • Sanskrit: “अल्बेनिया”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱞᱵᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱞᱵᱮᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “البانیہ”
  • Sardinian: “Albania”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Albanien”
  • Scots: “Albainie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Albàinia”
  • Serbian: “Albanija”
  • Serbian: “Албанија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Albanija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢႃႇပႃးၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Albania”
  • Shona: “Arubhaniya”
  • Sicilian: “Albanìa”
  • Silesian: “Albanijŏ”
  • Sindhi: “البانيا”
  • Sinhala: “ඇල්බේනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Albania”
  • Slovak: “Albánsko”
  • Slovenian: “Albanija”
  • Somali: “Albaaniya”
  • Somali: “Albania”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلبانی”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Albaania”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Albania”
  • Southern Sotho: “Albania”
  • Spanish: “Albania”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Albanikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵍⴱⴰⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Albania”
  • Swahili: “Albania”
  • Swati: “I-Alibheniya”
  • Swedish: “Albanien”
  • Swiss German: “Albanie”
  • Swiss German: “Albanien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠀꠟꠛꠦꠘꠤꠀ”
  • Tachelhit: “Albanya”
  • Tagalog: “Albanya”
  • Tahitian: “Arapania”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰᥟᥣᥱᥙᥣᥰᥢᥤᥰᥕᥣᥰ”
  • Tajik: “Албания”
  • Talysh: “Albanijə”
  • Talysh: “Albaniyə”
  • Tamil: “அல்பேனியா”
  • Taroko: “Albania”
  • Tatar: “Албания”
  • Telugu: “అల్బేనియా”
  • Tetum: “Albánia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศแอลเบเนีย”
  • Thai: “แอลเบเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨལ་པ་ཉི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨལ་བཱ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “አልባኒያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣልባኒያ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣልቤኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Albenia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAlipania”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Republika e Shqipërisë”
  • Tsonga: “Albania”
  • Tswana: “Albania”
  • Tulu: “ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯ”
  • Tumbuka: “Albania”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ألبانيا”
  • Turkish: “Arnavutluk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Arnavutluk”
  • Turkmen: “Albaniýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Албания”
  • Twi: “Albania”
  • Tyap: “A̱li̱beniya”
  • Udmurt: “Албания”
  • Uighur: “ئالبانىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Албанія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Albanska”
  • Urdu: “البانیا”
  • Urdu: “البانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Albaniya”
  • Venetian: “Albania”
  • Venetian: “Albanìa”
  • Veps: “Albanii”
  • Vietnamese: “Albania”
  • Vietnamese: “An-ba-ni (Albania)”
  • Vietnamese: “An-ba-ni”
  • Vlaams: “Albanië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Shkiperiya”
  • Volapük: “Lalbanän”
  • Võro: “Albaania”
  • Walloon: “Albaneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Albanya”
  • Welsh: “Albania”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալպանիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Albaanje”
  • Western Frisian: “Albanië”
  • Western Mari: “Албани”
  • Western Panjabi: “البانیا”
  • Wolof: “Albaani”
  • Wolof: “Albani”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔巴尼亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿爾巴尼亞”
  • Xhosa: “Albania”
  • Yakut: “Албания”
  • Yiddish: “אלבאניע”
  • Yiddish: “אַלבאַניע”
  • Yoruba: “Albáníà”
  • Yoruba: “Alibéníà”
  • Yoruba: “Àlùbàníánì”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Àlùbàníánì”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿爾巴尼亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Albanië”
  • Zhuang: “Albania”
  • Zulu: “i-Albania”
  • Zulu: “I-Albaniya”
  • “Albania”
  • “Albanija”
  • “ma Sipe”
  • “Албания”
  • “अल्बानिया”

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