Albania, officially de Republic of Albania, be a country insyd Southeast Europe. E dey locate insyd de Balkans, on de Adriatic den Ionian Seas insyd de Mediterranean Sea, wey e dey share land borders plus Montenegro to de northwest, Kosovo to de northeast, North Macedonia to de east den Greece to de south. Plus an area of 28,748 km2 (11,100 sq mi), e get a varied range of climatic, geological, hydrological den morphological conditions. Albania ein landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains insyd de Albanian Alps den de Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus den Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains wey dey extend from de Adriatic den Ionian seacoasts. Tirana be de capital den largest city insyd de country, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, den Shkodër.
Demography
Urbanisation
depopulation.
| Largest cities den towns insyd Albania
According to de 2011 census dem conduct by Instituti i Statistikave (INSTAT) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | County | Pop. | Rank | Name | County | Pop. | ||
| 1 | Tirana | Tirana | 418,495 | 11 | Kavajë | Tirana | 20,192 | ||
| 2 | Durrës | Durrës | 113,249 | 12 | Gjirokastër | Gjirokastër | 19,836 | ||
| 3 | Vlorë | Vlorë | 79,513 | 13 | Sarandë | Vlorë | 17,233 | ||
| 4 | Elbasan | Elbasan | 78,703 | 14 | Laç | Lezhë | 17,086 | ||
| 5 | Shkodër | Shkodër | 77,075 | 15 | Kukës | Kukës | 16,719 | ||
| 6 | Fier | Fier | 55,845 | 16 | Patos | Fier | 15,937 | ||
| 7 | Korçë | Korçë | 51,152 | 17 | Lezhë | Lezhë | 15,510 | ||
| 8 | Berat | Berat | 32,606 | 18 | Peshkopi | Dibër | 13,251 | ||
| 9 | Lushnjë | Fier | 31,105 | 19 | Kuçovë | Berat | 12,654 | ||
| 10 | Pogradec | Korçë | 20,848 | 20 | Krujë | Durrës | 11,721 | ||
Administrative divisions
| Emblem | County | Capital | Area
(km2) |
Population (2020) | HDI (2019) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berat | Berat | 1,798 | 122,003 | 0.782 | |||||||||||||||
| Dibër | Peshkopi | 2,586 | 115,857 | 0.754 | |||||||||||||||
| Durrës | Durrës | 766 | 290,697 | 0.802 | |||||||||||||||
| Elbasan | Elbasan | 3,199 | 270,074 | 0.784 | |||||||||||||||
| Fier | Fier | 1,890 | 289,889 | 0.767 | |||||||||||||||
| Gjirokastër | Gjirokastër | 2,884 | 59,381 | 0.794 | |||||||||||||||
| Korçë | Korçë | 3,711 | 204,831 | 0.790 | |||||||||||||||
| Kukës | Kukës | 2,374 | 75,428 | 0.749 | |||||||||||||||
| Lezhë | Lezhë | 1,620 | 122,700 | 0.769 | |||||||||||||||
| Shkodër | Shkodër | 3,562 | 200,007 | 0.784 | |||||||||||||||
| Tirana | Tirana | 1,652 | 906,166 | 0.820 | |||||||||||||||
| Vlorë | Vlorë | 2,706 | 188,922 | 0.802 | |||||||||||||||
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Read further
- History of the Party of Labor of Albania. Tirana: Institute of Marxist–Leninist Studies, 1971. 691 p.
- Abrahams, Fred (2015). Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe. NYU Press. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-8147-0511-7.
