Kukës
Kukës is a town of 36,000 people in Northeastern Albania, and the last one before the Kosovo border. The surrounding area is dominated by mountainous and high terrain. Kukës is a good centre for fishing and walking in the surrounding mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pikellima, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Shkelzen Rexha Gjakovë, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 16,800 residents
- Description: city in Kukës County, Albania
- Also known as: “Cucus”, “Kukes”, “Kukësi”, “Kuks”, “Kuksi”, “Kukuch”, and “Kukus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kukës Arena and Kukës Bridge.
Kukës Arena
Stadium
Photo: Albinfo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Kukës Arena is a stadium in Kukës, Albania. It is mainly used for football matches and is the home ground of the Kategoria Superiore club Kukësi. The stadium was built on the site of the pre-existing Përparimi Stadium, located near the center of Kukës on Rruga Stadiumi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kodër-Lumë.
Kodër-Lumë
Village
Kodër-Lumë is a village in the former Shtiqën municipality, Kukës County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kukës.
Kukës
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bashkia e Kukësit, Bashkia Kukës, Kukës County, Northeastern Albania, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
42.0769° or 42° 4′ 37″ northLongitude
20.4163° or 20° 24′ 59″ eastPopulation
16,800Elevation
351 metres (1,152 feet)IATA airport code
KFZOpen location code
8GJ23CG8+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 470406312OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kukës” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kukës”
- Albanian: “Kukës”
- Albanian: “Kukësi”
- Arabic: “كوكس”
- Armenian: “Կուկաս”
- Asturian: “Kukës”
- Azerbaijani: “Kukes”
- Basque: “Kukës”
- Belarusian: “Кукес”
- Bengali: “কুকেস”
- Bulgarian: “Кукъс”
- Burmese: “ကူးကက်စ်မြို့”
- Cebuano: “Kukës”
- Chechen: “Кукес”
- Chinese: “Kukës”
- Chinese: “库克斯”
- Chinese: “庫克斯”
- Corsican: “Kukës”
- Czech: “Kukës”
- Danish: “Kukes”
- Danish: “Kukës”
- Dutch: “Kukës”
- Dutch: “Kukesi”
- Dutch: “Kukësi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوكس”
- Esperanto: “Kukës”
- Estonian: “Kukesi”
- Estonian: “Kukësi”
- Finnish: “Kukës”
- French: “Kukes”
- French: “Kukës”
- French: “Kukësi”
- Friulian: “Kukës”
- Georgian: “კუკესი”
- German: “Kukes”
- German: “Kukës”
- German: “Kukësi”
- Greek: “Κουκές”
- Greek: “Κούκεσι”
- Greek: “Κουκς”
- Gujarati: “કુકેસ”
- Hebrew: “קוקס”
- Hindi: “कुकस, अल्बानिया”
- Hindi: “कुकेज़”
- Hungarian: “Kukës”
- Hungarian: “Kukësi”
- Ido: “Kukës”
- Indonesian: “Kukës”
- Interlingua: “Kukes”
- Interlingue: “Kukës”
- Irish: “Kukës”
- Italian: “Kukes”
- Italian: “Kukës”
- Japanese: “アルバニア”
- Japanese: “クカス”
- Japanese: “ククス”
- Japanese: “クケシ”
- Japanese: “クケス”
- Javanese: “Kukës”
- Kannada: “ಕುಕೆಸ್”
- Kongo: “Kukës”
- Korean: “쿠커스”
- Ladin: “Kukës”
- Latin: “Cucesium”
- Latvian: “Kukesa”
- Latvian: “Kukesi”
- Ligurian: “Kukës”
- Lithuanian: “Kukesis”
- Lombard: “Kukës”
- Luba-Lulua: “Kukës”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kukës”
- Macedonian: “Кукс”
- Macedonian: “Кукуш”
- Malay: “Kukes”
- Maltese: “Kukës”
- Marathi: “कुकेस”
- Mingrelian: “კუკესი”
- Neapolitan: “Kukës”
- Northern Frisian: “Kukës”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kukës”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kukës”
- Norwegian: “Kukës”
- Persian: “کوکس”
- Picard: “Kukës”
- Piemontese: “Kukës”
- Polish: “Kukes”
- Polish: “Kukës”
- Pontic: “Κούκεσ”
- Portuguese: “Kukës”
- Romanian: “Kukes”
- Romanian: “Kukës”
- Romansh: “Kukës”
- Russian: “Кукес”
- Russian: “Кукеш”
- Sardinian: “Kukës”
- Serbian: “Kukes”
- Serbian: “Кукес”
- Serbian: “Кукеш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kukes”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kukësi”
- Sicilian: “Kukës”
- Sinhala: “කුකීස්, ඇල්බේනියාව”
- Sinhala: “කුකීස්”
- Slovak: “Kukës”
- Slovenian: “Kukës”
- Slovenian: “Kukësi”
- Spanish: “Kukes”
- Spanish: “Kukës”
- Swedish: “Kukes”
- Swedish: “Kukës”
- Swedish: “Kukesi”
- Swedish: “Kukësi”
- Tagalog: “Kukës”
- Tamil: “குக்கஸ்”
- Tatar: “Кукыс”
- Telugu: “కూకేస్”
- Thai: “กูเกิส”
- Thai: “คูเคส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kukës”
- Turkish: “Kökes”
- Turkish: “Kukës”
- Ukrainian: “Кукес”
- Urdu: “کوکس”
- Venetian: “Kukës”
- Vietnamese: “Kukës”
- Vlaams: “Kukës”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kukës”
- Western Armenian: “Քուքս”
- Western Panjabi: “کوکس”
- Wu Chinese: “库克斯”
- Yue Chinese: “Kukës”
- “Kukës”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Kukës”. Photo: Shkelzen Rexha Gjakovë, CC BY-SA 4.0.