Tirana

Tirana is the bustling and relatively modernised capital of . It is the most important economic, financial, political and trade centre in the country.
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  • Type: City with 557,000 residents
  • Description: capital and the largest city of Albania
  • Also known as: “Tiranë” and “Tyranna”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of Albania and Skanderbeg Square.

Library
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is 's national library headquartered in the country's capital, Tirana. It was founded in 1920 and inaugurated on December 10, 1922.

Square
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the main plaza in the centre of Tirana, . The square is named after the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg. The total area is about 40,000 square metres.

Church
Photo: da-ni-el, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, commonly known as the or the Orthodox Church of Albania, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paskuqan and Ish-Blloku.

Village
is a city and a municipal unit in , central . At the 2015 local government reform it became a municipal unit of the municipality of . The population as of the 2023 census is 34,398.

Quarter
Photo: Leeturtle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, commonly Blloku, is an upmarket area in Tirana, . It widely known as an entertainment destination with its boutiques, shops, restaurants, trendy bars, pubs, and cafes.

Quarter
is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Tirana, Albania. It is named after , a World War II hero. The street of the same name is a primary artery of both the neighborhood and Tirana.

Tirana

Latitude
41.3281° or 41° 19′ 41″ north
Longitude
19.8184° or 19° 49′ 6″ east
Population
557,000
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
IATA airport code
TIA
United Nations Location Code
AL TIA
Open location code
8FHX8RH9+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1835254686
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3183875
Wiki­data ID
Q19689
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Tirana” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tirana”
  • Afrikaans: “Tirana”
  • Afrikaans: “Tiranë”
  • Afrikaans: “Tirene”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti i Tiranës”
  • Albanian: “Tirana”
  • Albanian: “Tiranë”
  • Albanian: “Tirona”
  • Amharic: “ቲራና”
  • Arabic: “تيرانا”
  • Aragonese: “Tirana”
  • Armenian: “Տիրանա”
  • Arpitan: “Tirana”
  • Asturian: “Tirana”
  • Atikamekw: “Tirane”
  • Avaric: “Тирана”
  • Aymara: “Tirana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tirana şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tirana”
  • Balinese: “Tirana”
  • Bambara: “Tirana”
  • Bashkir: “Тирана”
  • Basque: “Tirana”
  • Bavarian: “Tirana”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Албаніі”
  • Belarusian: “Тырана”
  • Bengali: “তিরানা”
  • Betawi: “Tirana”
  • Bislama: “Tirana”
  • Bosnian: “Tirana”
  • Bosnian: “Tiranë”
  • Breton: “Tirana”
  • Breton: “Tiranë”
  • Bulgarian: “Тирана”
  • Burmese: “တီရာနာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Tirana”
  • Catalan: “Tiranë”
  • Cebuano: “Tirana (ulohang dakbayan sa Albanya)”
  • Cebuano: “Tirana”
  • Central Bikol: “Tirana”
  • Central Kurdish: “تیرانا”
  • Chamorro: “Tirana”
  • Chavacano: “Tirana”
  • Chechen: “Тирана”
  • Cherokee: “ᏘrᎠᎾ”
  • Cheyenne: “Tirana”
  • Chinese: “Tirana”
  • Chinese: “地拉拿”
  • Chinese: “地拉那”
  • Chinese: “地拉那市”
  • Church Slavic: “Тирана”
  • Chuvash: “Тирана”
  • Cornish: “Tirana”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tirana”
  • Croatian: “Tirana”
  • Czech: “Tirana”
  • Czech: “Tiranë”
  • Dagbani: “Tirana”
  • Danish: “Tirana”
  • Danish: “Tirane”
  • Danish: “Tiranë”
  • Dhivehi: “ޓިރާނާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tirana”
  • Dutch: “Tirana”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тирана”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тиране”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيرانا”
  • Erzya: “Тирана ош”
  • Esperanto: “Tirana”
  • Esperanto: “Tiranë”
  • Esperanto: “Tirano”
  • Estonian: “Tirana”
  • Ewe: “Tirana”
  • Extremaduran: “Tirana”
  • Extremaduran: “Tiranë”
  • Fanti: “Tirana”
  • Faroese: “Tirana”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tirana”
  • Fijian: “Tirana”
  • Finnish: “Tirana”
  • Finnish: “Tiranë”
  • French: “Tirana”
  • French: “Tiranë”
  • Friulian: “Tirana”
  • Fulah: “Tirana”
  • Ga: “Tirana”
  • Ga: “Tiranë”
  • Gagauz: “Tirana”
  • Galician: “Tirana”
  • Gan Chinese: “地拉那”
  • Ganda: “Tirana”
  • Georgian: “ტირანა”
  • German: “Tirana”
  • German: “Tirane”
  • German: “Tiranë”
  • German: “Tirona”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tirana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tiranë”
  • Gilaki: “تيرانا”
  • Gothic: “𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Τίρανα”
  • Guarani: “Tirána”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tirana”
  • Gujarati: “તિરાના”
  • Haitian: “Tirana”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tirana”
  • Hausa: “Tirana”
  • Hausa: “Tiranë”
  • Hebrew: “טיראנה”
  • Hebrew: “טירנה”
  • Hindi: “तिराना”
  • Hungarian: “Tirana”
  • Hungarian: “Tiranë”
  • Icelandic: “Tírana”
  • Ido: “Tirana”
  • Ido: “Tirane”
  • Igbo: “Tiranë”
  • Iloko: “Tirana”
  • Inari Sami: “Tirana”
  • Indonesian: “Tirana”
  • Indonesian: “Tiranë”
  • Interlingua: “Tirana”
  • Interlingue: “Tirana”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑎᕋᓇ”
  • Inupiaq: “Tirana”
  • Irish: “Tiorána”
  • Italian: “Tirana”
  • Italian: “Tiranë”
  • Japanese: “チラナ”
  • Japanese: “ティラナ”
  • Javanese: “Tirana”
  • Kabyle: “Tirana”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tirana”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tirana”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿರಾಣ”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿರಾನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tirana”
  • Kashmiri: “تِرانا”
  • Kazakh: “Тирана”
  • Khmer: “ទីរ៉ាណា”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tirana”
  • Kirghiz: “Тирана”
  • Kölsch: “Tirana”
  • Komering: “Tirana”
  • Komi: “Тирана”
  • Kongo: “Tirana”
  • Korean: “티라나”
  • Korean: “티라너”
  • Kotava: “Tiranë”
  • Kurdish: “Tirana”
  • Kurdish: “Tîrana”
  • Ladin: “Tirana”
  • Ladino: “Tirana”
  • Lao: “Tirana”
  • Lao: “Tiranë”
  • Lao: “ຕິຣານາ”
  • Lao: “ທິຣານາ”
  • Latgalian: “Tirana”
  • Latin: “Theranda”
  • Latin: “Tyrana”
  • Latvian: “Tirana”
  • Latvian: “Tirāna”
  • Ligurian: “Tirana”
  • Limburgan: “Tirana”
  • Lingala: “Tirana”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tirana”
  • Literary Chinese: “地拉那”
  • Lithuanian: “Tirana”
  • Lithuanian: “Tirane”
  • Livvi: “Tirana”
  • Lojban: “tirana”
  • Lombard: “Tirana”
  • Lombard: “Tiràna”
  • Low German: “Tirana”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tirana”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tirana”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Tirana”
  • Macedonian: “Tėrana”
  • Macedonian: “Theranda”
  • Macedonian: “Tiorána”
  • Macedonian: “Tiran-a”
  • Macedonian: “Tiran”
  • Macedonian: “Tirana - Tiranë”
  • Macedonian: “Tirana”
  • Macedonian: “Tirāna”
  • Macedonian: “Tírana”
  • Macedonian: “Tîrana”
  • Macedonian: “Tirane”
  • Macedonian: “Tirano”
  • Macedonian: “Τίρανα”
  • Macedonian: “Тирана”
  • Macedonian: “Трнава”
  • Macedonian: “Тырана”
  • Macedonian: “ტირანა”
  • Macedonian: “Տիրանա”
  • Macedonian: “טיראנא”
  • Macedonian: “טירנה”
  • Macedonian: “تيرانا”
  • Macedonian: “تیرانا”
  • Macedonian: “ቲራና”
  • Macedonian: “तिराना”
  • Macedonian: “তিরানা”
  • Macedonian: “டிரானா”
  • Macedonian: “ติรานา”
  • Macedonian: “ཐིས་རན།”
  • Macedonian: “티라나”
  • Macedonian: “ティラナ”
  • Macedonian: “地拉那”
  • Maithili: “टिराना”
  • Malagasy: “Tirana”
  • Malay: “Tirana”
  • Malay: “Tirane”
  • Malay: “Tiranë”
  • Malayalam: “Tirana”
  • Malayalam: “ടിറാന”
  • Maltese: “Tirana”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯤꯔꯥꯅꯥ”
  • Manx: “Tirana”
  • Manx: “Tirane”
  • Manx: “Tiranë”
  • Maori: “Tirana”
  • Marathi: “तिराना”
  • Mazanderani: “تیرانا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tirana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tirana”
  • Minangkabau: “Tirana”
  • Mingrelian: “ტირანა”
  • Mirandese: “Tirana”
  • Moksha: “Тирана”
  • Mongolian: “Тиран хот”
  • Mongolian: “Тирана”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تيرانا”
  • Narom: “Tirana”
  • Navajo: “Dziłgaii Yaayí”
  • Neapolitan: “Tirana”
  • Nepali: “टिराना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tirana”
  • Northern Luri: “تیرانا”
  • Northern Sami: “Tirana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hovedstad Albania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tirana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiranë”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tirana”
  • Norwegian: “Tirana”
  • Novial: “Tirana”
  • Nyanja: “Tirana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tirana”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܝܪܢܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tirana”
  • Oriya: “ଟିରାନା”
  • Ossetian: “Тиранæ”
  • Ossetian: “Тирана”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻတီရာနာ”
  • Paiwan: “tirana”
  • Pampanga: “Tirana”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿਰਾਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Tirana”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Tirana”
  • Persian: “تیرانا(پایتخت)”
  • Persian: “تیرانا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Tirana”
  • Picard: “Tirana”
  • Piemontese: “Tiran-a”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tirana”
  • Polish: “Tirana”
  • Pontic: “Τίρανα”
  • Portuguese: “Tirana”
  • Portuguese: “Tirane”
  • Portuguese: “Tiranë”
  • Pushto: “تیرانا”
  • Quechua: “Tirana”
  • Romanian: “Tirana”
  • Romansh: “Tirana”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тирана”
  • Russian: “Тирана”
  • Rusyn: “Тірана”
  • Sakizaya: “Tirana”
  • Samoan: “Tirana”
  • Samogitian: “Tėrana”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱤᱨᱟᱱᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “تیرانا”
  • Sardinian: “Tirana”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tirana”
  • Scots: “Tirana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tirana”
  • Serbian: “Tiranë”
  • Serbian: “Тирана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tirana”
  • Shan: “တီႇရႃႇၼႃႇ၊ ဝဵင်း”
  • Shona: “Tirana”
  • Sicilian: “Tirana”
  • Silesian: “Tirana”
  • Sindhi: “تيرانا”
  • Sinhala: “ටරානා”
  • Sinhala: “ටිරානා, ඇල්බේනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tirana”
  • Slovak: “Tirana”
  • Slovak: “Tiranë”
  • Slovenian: “Tirana”
  • Slovenian: “Tiranë”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تیرانا”
  • Spanish: “Tirana”
  • Spanish: “Tiranë”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⵔⴰⵏⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Tirana”
  • Swedish: “Tirana”
  • Swedish: “Tirane”
  • Swedish: “Tiranë”
  • Swiss German: “Tirana”
  • Sylheti: “ꠔꠤꠞꠣꠘꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Tirana”
  • Tahitian: “Tirana”
  • Tajik: “Тирана”
  • Talysh: “Tirana”
  • Tamil: “டிரானா”
  • Tatar: “Тирана”
  • Telugu: “తిరానా”
  • Tetum: “Tirana”
  • Thai: “Tirana”
  • Thai: “ติรานา”
  • Tibetan: “ཐིས་རན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཐིས་རན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቲራና”
  • Tok Pisin: “Tirana”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tilāna”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tirana”
  • Tswana: “Tirana”
  • Tumbuka: “Tirana”
  • Turkish: “Tiran, Arnavutluk”
  • Turkish: “Tiran”
  • Turkmen: “Tirana”
  • Twi: “Tirana”
  • Twi: “Tiranë”
  • Udmurt: “Тирана”
  • Uighur: “Tirana”
  • Uighur: “تىرانا”
  • Ukrainian: “Тирана”
  • Ukrainian: “Тірана”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tirana”
  • Urdu: “تیرانا”
  • Urdu: “تیرانہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tirana”
  • Venetian: “Tirana”
  • Veps: “Tiran-lidn”
  • Veps: “Tiran”
  • Vietnamese: “Tirana”
  • Vlaams: “Tirana”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tirana”
  • Volapük: “Tirana”
  • Volapük: “Tiranë”
  • Võro: “Tirana”
  • Walloon: “Tirana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tirana”
  • Welsh: “Tirana”
  • Welsh: “Tiranë”
  • Western Armenian: “Թիրանա”
  • Western Frisian: “Tirana”
  • Western Panjabi: “تیرانا”
  • Wolof: “Tirana”
  • Wu Chinese: “地拉那”
  • Xhosa: “Tirana”
  • Yakut: “Тирана”
  • Yiddish: “טיראנא”
  • Yoruba: “Tirana”
  • Yue Chinese: “地拉那”
  • Zeeuws: “Tirana”
  • Zhuang: “Tirana”
  • Zulu: “ITirana”
  • “Tėrana”
  • “Tirana”
  • “Tiràna”
  • “Tirane”
  • “Тирана”

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