Shijak
Shijak is a town and a municipality in Durrës County, west-central Albania, with a total population of 28,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zasella, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Zasella, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 12,900 residents
- Description: town in Albania
- Also known as: “Bazar Sciak”, “San Giacomo”, “Shejak”, “Shëjaku”, “Shjak”, “Shyaku”, and “Šjak”
- Address: DURRËS
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borakë.
Shijak
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Durrës County, Coastal Albania, Albania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.3435° or 41° 20′ 36″ northLongitude
19.5677° or 19° 34′ 4″ eastPopulation
12,900Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
8FHX8HV9+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 728426328OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3184099Wikidata ID
Q18791
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Shijak” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shijak”
- Albanian: “Shijaku”
- Asturian: “Shijak”
- Azerbaijani: “Şiyaku”
- Bulgarian: “Шияк”
- Catalan: “Shijak”
- Cebuano: “Shijak”
- Chinese: “希亚克”
- Chinese: “希亞克”
- Czech: “Shijak”
- Danish: “Shijak”
- Dutch: “Shijak”
- Finnish: “Shijak”
- French: “Shijak”
- French: “Shijaku”
- German: “Shijak”
- German: “Shijaku”
- Greek: “Σιγιάκ”
- Hebrew: “שיאק”
- Hungarian: “Shijak”
- Hungarian: “Shijaku”
- Irish: “Shijak”
- Italian: “Shijak”
- Japanese: “シヤク”
- Lithuanian: “Shijak”
- Lithuanian: “Šijakas”
- Lithuanian: “Šijaku”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Shijak”
- Macedonian: “Шијак”
- Malay: “Shijak”
- Maltese: “Shijak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shijak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shijak”
- Norwegian: “Shijak”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shijak”
- Polish: “Shijak”
- Portuguese: “Shijak”
- Romanian: “Shijak”
- Russian: “Шийяк”
- Russian: “Шияку”
- Scots: “Shijak”
- Serbian: “Shijaku”
- Serbian: “Шијак”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šijak”
- Slovak: “Shijak”
- Spanish: “Shijak”
- Swedish: “Shijak”
- Tatar: “Шияк”
- Thai: “ชียัก”
- Tumbuka: “Shijak”
- Turkish: “Şayak”
- Turkish: “Shijak”
- Ukrainian: “Шияк”
- Urdu: “شیجاکو”
- Vietnamese: “Shijak”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shijak”
- “Shijak”
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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 “Shijak”. Photo: Zasella, CC BY-SA 4.0.