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

is an Albanian Adriatic port city. is a bustling, lively port city. There is a busy city centre, historical sites, beaches and promenades. The city has a vibrant feel with friendly and helpful locals.

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

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is a region of Albania along the western lowland and the southern 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. 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.

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: Alvania”, “Arnautluk”, “People’s Republic of Albania”, “People’s Socialist Republic of Albania”, “Peoples Republic of Albania”, “Republic of Albania”, “Republika e Shqipërisë”, “Republika Popullore e Shqiperise”, “Republika Popullore e Shqipërisë”, “Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqiperise”, “Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë”, “Sheypeni”, “Shkipeni”, “Shqipenia”, “Shqipërisë”, “Shqipni”, “Shqipnia”, “Shqipnië”, “Shqipnija”, “Shqipri”, “Shqipria”, “Shqiprija”, “Shqypëni”, and “Shqypni
  • 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
.al
Internet domain
355
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 Аҳәынҭқарра
  • Abkhazian: Арнауыҭтәыла
  • Achinese: Albania
  • Adyghe: Албание
  • Adyghe: Республикэу Албание
  • Afrikaans: Albanië
  • Afrikaans: Republiek van Albanië
  • Akan: Albenia
  • Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë
  • Albanian: Shqipëri
  • Albanian: Shqipëria
  • Amharic: አልባኒያ
  • Amis: Albania
  • Amis: Arpaniya
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ἀλβανία
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ἰλλυρίς
  • 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 Respublikası
  • Azerbaijani: Albaniya
  • Balinese: Albania
  • Bambara: Alibani
  • Banjar: Albania
  • Bashkir: Албания Республикаһы
  • Bashkir: Албания
  • Basque: Albania
  • Batak Mandailing: Albania
  • Batak Toba: Albania
  • Bavarian: Albanien
  • Bavarian: Oibanien
  • Belarusian: Албанія
  • Belarusian: Альбанія
  • Belarusian: Рэспу́бліка Алба́нія
  • Bengali: আলবানিয়া
  • Bengali: আলবেনিয়া
  • Bengali: আলব্যানিয়া
  • Betawi: Albani
  • Bhojpuri: अल्बानिया
  • Bishnupriya: আলবেনিয়া
  • Bislama: Albania
  • Bosnian: Albanija
  • Brahui: Albáníá
  • Breton: Albania
  • Buginese: ᨕᨒᨅᨕᨊᨗᨕ
  • Bulgarian: Албания
  • Bulgarian: Република Албания
  • Burmese: အယ်လ်ဘေးနီးယား သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
  • 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: Albania
  • Chinese: 阿尔巴尼亚 / 阿爾巴尼亞
  • Chinese: 阿尔巴尼亚
  • Chinese: 阿尔巴尼亚共和国
  • Chinese: 阿爾巴尼亞
  • Church Slavic: Алванїꙗ
  • Chuvash: Албани республики
  • Chuvash: Албани
  • Cornish: Albani
  • Corsican: Albania
  • Crimean Tatar: Arnavutlıq
  • Croatian: Albanija
  • Czech: Albánie
  • Czech: Albánská republika
  • Dagbani: Albania
  • Danish: Albanien
  • Danish: Republikken Albanien
  • Dhivehi: އަލްބޭނިއާ
  • Dimli (individual language): Albanya
  • Dimli (individual language): Arnawudiye
  • Dimli (individual language): Arnawutiye
  • Dinka: Albania
  • Dotyali: अल्बानिया
  • Dutch: Albanie
  • Dutch: Albanië
  • Dutch: Republiek Albanië
  • Dzongkha: ཨལ་བཱ་ནི་ཡ།
  • Dzongkha: ཨཱལ་བེ་ནི་ཡ། Albania
  • Dzongkha: ཨཱལ་བེ་ནི་ཡ
  • Eastern Mari: Албаний
  • Egyptian Arabic: البانيا
  • Erzya: Албания Мастор
  • Erzya: Албания Республикась
  • Esperanto: Albanio
  • Esperanto: Albanujo
  • Estonian: Albaania Vabariik
  • Estonian: Albaania
  • Ewe: Albania nutome
  • Ewe: Albania
  • Extremaduran: Albaña
  • Extremaduran: Albania
  • Extremaduran: Albánia
  • Extremaduran: Republika e Shqipërisë
  • Extremaduran: Repúbrica d’Albania
  • Extremaduran: Shqipërise
  • Farefare: Albania
  • Faroese: Albania
  • Faroese: Lýðveldið Albaniu
  • Fiji Hindi: Albania
  • Fijian: Alabania
  • Finnish: Albania
  • Finnish: Albanian tasavalta
  • Finnish: Republika e Shqipërisë
  • French: Albanie
  • French: la république d’Albanie
  • French: république d’Albanie
  • Friulian: Albanie
  • Fulah: Albanii
  • Fulah: Albaniya
  • Gagauz: Albaniya
  • Galician: Albania
  • Gan Chinese: 阿爾巴尼亞
  • Ganda: Albania
  • Ganda: Alibaniya
  • Georgian: ალბანეთი
  • Georgian: ალბანეთის რესპუბლიკა
  • German: Albanien
  • German: Republik Albanien
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Albania
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: People’s Republic of Albania
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: People’s Socialist Republic of Albania
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Republic of Albania
  • Gilaki: آلباني
  • Goan Konkani: Albania
  • Goan Konkani: अल्बानिया
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰
  • Greek: Αλβανία
  • Guarani: Alvánia
  • Guarani: Avaña
  • Guianese Creole French: Albani
  • Gujarati: અલ્બેનિયા
  • Gujarati: આલ્બેનિયા
  • Haitian: Albani
  • Hakka Chinese: Albania
  • Hausa: Albaniya
  • Hawaiian: ʻAlepania
  • Hebrew: אלבניה
  • Hindi: अल्बानिया
  • Hindi: अल्बेनिया
  • Hungarian: Albán Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Albánia
  • Iban: Albania
  • Icelandic: Albanía
  • Ido: Albania
  • Igala: Albania
  • Igbo: Albania
  • Iloko: Albania
  • Inari Sami: Albania täsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Albania
  • Indonesian: Albania
  • Interlingua: Albania
  • Interlingue: Albania
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᐅᐸᐃᓂᐊ
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᓪᐹᓂᐊ
  • Inupiaq: Albania
  • Irish: an Albáin
  • Irish: An Albáin
  • Italian: Albania
  • Italian: Repubblica d’Albania
  • Jamaican Creole English: Albienia
  • Japanese: アルバニア
  • Japanese: アルバニア共和国
  • Javanese: Albani
  • Javanese: Albania
  • Kabardian: Албаниэ
  • Kabardian: Арнаутие
  • Kabiyè: Alɩbanii
  • Kabuverdianu: Albánia
  • Kabyle: Albanya
  • Kadazan Dusun: Albania
  • Kalaallisut: Albania
  • Kalmyk: Арнгудин Орн
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯ
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯಾ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯಾ
  • Kara-Kalpak: Albaniya
  • Karachay-Balkar: Албания
  • Kashmiri: البانیہَ
  • Kashmiri: اؠلبانِیا
  • Kashubian: Albańskô
  • Kazakh: Албания Республикасы
  • Kazakh: Албания
  • Khmer: អាល់បានី
  • Kikuyu: Albania
  • Kikuyu: Arũmbĩnia
  • Kinyarwanda: Alubaniya
  • Kirghiz: Албания Республикасы
  • Kirghiz: Албания
  • Kölsch: Albanien
  • Komering: Albania
  • Komering: Albaniya
  • Komi-Permyak: Штиприя
  • Komi: Албания
  • Kongo: Albania
  • Kongo: Repubilika ya Albania
  • Korean: 알바니아 공화국
  • Korean: 알바니아
  • Kotava: Skiperia
  • Kurdish: Albanya
  • Kurdish: Komara Albanyayê
  • Kurdish: ئەڵبانیا
  • Ladin: Albania
  • Ladino: Albania
  • Ladino: אלבאניה
  • Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດອານບານີ
  • Lao: ປະເທດອານບານີ
  • Lao: ແອລເບເນຍ
  • Lao: ແອວເບເນຍ
  • Latgalian: Albaneja
  • Latin: Albania
  • Latvian: Albānija
  • Latvian: Albānijas Republika
  • Lezghian: Албания
  • Ligurian: Albania
  • Limburgan: Albanië
  • Lingala: Albania
  • Lingala: Alibani
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Albania
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Xciperia
  • Literary Chinese: 阿爾巴尼亞
  • Lithuanian: Albanija
  • Lithuanian: Albanijos Respublika
  • Liv: Albānij
  • Livvi: Albuanii
  • Lojban: gugdeʼalu
  • Lombard: Albania
  • Low German: Albanië
  • Low German: Albanien
  • Lower Sorbian: Albańska
  • Luba-Katanga: Alubani
  • Lule Sami: Albádna
  • Lule Sami: Albána republihkka
  • Lule Sami: Albána republijkka
  • Lule Sami: Albánna
  • Luxembourgish: Albanien
  • Macedo-Romanian: Albanii
  • Macedo-Romanian: Arbinishia
  • Macedo-Romanian: Arbinișia
  • Macedo-Romanian: Arbinuşii
  • Macedonian: Албанија
  • Macedonian: Република Албанија
  • Madurese: Albania
  • Magahi: अल्बानिया
  • Maithili: अल्बानिया
  • Malagasy: Albania
  • Malay: Albania
  • Malay: البانيا
  • Malayalam: അൽബേനിയ
  • Maltese: Albanija
  • Maltese: l-Albanija
  • Maltese: Repubblika tal-Albanija
  • Manipuri: ꯑꯜꯕꯥꯅꯤꯌꯥ
  • Manx: Yn Albaan
  • Maori: Arapeinia
  • Marathi: अल्बानिया
  • Marathi: आल्बेनिया
  • Mazanderani: آلبانی
  • Min Dong Chinese: Albania
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ā-lū-bà-nià
  • Min Nan Chinese: Albania
  • Min Nan Chinese: Shqiperia
  • Min Nan Chinese: Shqipëria
  • Min Nan Chinese: Sū-chiō-pò-lià
  • Minangkabau: Albania
  • Mingrelian: ალბანეთი
  • Mirandese: Albánia
  • Moksha: Албания
  • Mongolian: Албани
  • Mongolian: Бүгд Найрамдах Албани Улс
  • Moroccan Arabic: ألبانيا
  • Mossi: Albania
  • N'Ko: ߊߟߌߓߊߣߌ߫
  • Narom: Albannie
  • Nauru: Arbainiya
  • Navajo: Dziłgaiiʼnii Bikéyah
  • Neapolitan: Albania
  • Nepali: अल्बानिया
  • Nepali: अल्बेनिया
  • Nepali: गणतन्त्र अल्बानिया
  • Newari: अल्बानिया गणराज्य
  • Newari: अल्बानिया
  • Nias: Albania
  • North Ndebele: Albania
  • Northern Frisian: Albaanien/öö
  • Northern Frisian: Albaanien
  • Northern Luri: آلبانی
  • Northern Sami: Albania dásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Albánia dásseváldi
  • 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
  • Pampanga: Republika ning Albania
  • Pampanga: Republika ning Albanya
  • Pangasinan: Shqip
  • Panjabi: ਅਲਬਾਨੀਆ
  • Papiamento: Albania
  • Pedi: Albania
  • Pennsylvania German: Albaani
  • Persian: آلبانی
  • Persian: آلبانیا
  • Persian: البانیا
  • Pfaelzisch: Albanien
  • Picard: Albanie
  • Piemontese: Albanìa
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Elbanya
  • Polish: Albania
  • Pontic: Αλβανία
  • Portuguese: Albânia
  • Portuguese: República da Albânia
  • Pushto: البانیا
  • Pushto: البانیه
  • Quechua: Albania
  • Quechua: Albaniya
  • Quechua: Albanya
  • Quechua: Alpanya
  • Romanian: Albania
  • Romanian: Republica Albania
  • Romansh: Albania
  • Rundi: Albaniya
  • Rundi: Alubaniya
  • Russia Buriat: Албани
  • Russian: Албания
  • Russian: Республика Албания
  • Russian: Шкиприя
  • 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
  • Scots: Albanie
  • Scottish Gaelic: Albàinia
  • Serbian: Albanija
  • Serbian: Албанија
  • Serbian: Република Албанија
  • Serbo-Croatian: Albanija
  • Shan: မိူင်းဢႃႇပႃးၼီးယႃး
  • Shona: Albania
  • Shona: Arubhaniya
  • Sicilian: Albanìa
  • Silesian: Albanijŏ
  • Silesian: Republika Albanije
  • Sindhi: البانيا
  • Sinhala: ඇල්බේනියාව
  • Skolt Sami: Albania tääʹssväʹldd
  • Skolt Sami: Albania
  • Slovak: Albánska republika
  • Slovak: Albánsko
  • Slovenian: Albanija
  • Slovenian: Republika Albanija
  • Slovenian: Republika e Shqipërisë
  • Slovenian: Shqipëria
  • Somali: Albaaniya
  • Somali: Albania
  • South Azerbaijani: آلبانی
  • Southern Dagaare: Albaania
  • Southern Dagaare: Albania
  • Southern Dagaare: Republic of Albania
  • Southern Sotho: Albania
  • Spanish: Albania
  • Spanish: Republica de Albania
  • Spanish: República de Albania
  • Sranan Tongo: Albanikondre
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⵍⴱⴰⵏⵢⴰ
  • Sundanese: Albania
  • Swahili: Albania
  • Swati: I-Alibheniya
  • Swedish: Albanien
  • Swedish: Republika e Shqipërisë
  • Swedish: Republiken Albanien
  • Swedish: Shqipërisë
  • Swiss German: Albanie
  • 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 పీపుల్స్ సోషలిస్ట్ రిపబ్లిక్
  • Telugu: అల్బేనియా
  • Telugu: రిపబ్లికా ఇ ష్కిపెరిస్
  • Telugu: రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ అల్బేనియా
  • Telugu: ష్కిపెరిస్
  • Tetum: Albánia
  • Thai: ประเทศแอลเบเนีย
  • Thai: สาธารณรัฐแอลเบเนีย
  • Thai: อัลเบเนีย
  • 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
  • Tosk Albanian: Albanien
  • Tsonga: Albania
  • Tswana: Albania
  • Tulu: ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯ
  • Tulu: ಅಲ್ಬೇನಿಯಾ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ
  • Tumbuka: Albania
  • Tunisian Arabic: ألبانيا
  • Turkish: Arnavutluk Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Arnavutluk
  • Turkmen: Albaniýa Respublikasy
  • Turkmen: Albaniýa
  • Tuvinian: Албания
  • Twi: Albania
  • Tyap: A̱li̱beniya
  • Udmurt: Албания
  • Uighur: ئالبانىيە
  • Ukrainian: Албанія
  • Ukrainian: Альбанїя
  • Ukrainian: Республіка Албанія
  • Upper Sorbian: Albanska
  • Urdu: البانیا
  • Urdu: البانیہ
  • Uzbek: Albaniya
  • Venetian: Albania
  • Venetian: Albanìa
  • Veps: Albanii
  • Vietnamese: Albania
  • Vietnamese: ALBR
  • Vietnamese: An-ba-ni (Albania)
  • Vietnamese: An-ba-ni
  • Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Albania
  • 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: Albania
  • Yue Chinese: Republika e Shqipërisë
  • Yue Chinese: Shqipëria
  • Yue Chinese: 阿爾巴尼亞
  • Zeeuws: Albanië
  • Zhuang: Albania
  • Zulu: i-Albania
  • Zulu: I-Albaniya
  • AL
  • ALB
  • Albaania
  • Albanėjė
  • Albanî
  • Albania
  • Albanie
  • Arbinishii
  • ma Sikipe
  • ma Sipe
  • Албания
  • अल्बानिया

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