Has more than 750,000 concrete bunkers built during the Cold War - roughly one for every four citizens at the time.
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Albania
Republic of Albania ยท Shqipรซria
Europe
ยท Southern Europe
0Population
28.75Kkmยฒ of land
$5.35KGDP / person
TiranaCapital
- ISO codes
- AL ยท ALB
- Density
- 99 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Albanian
- Currency
- Albanian lek (ALL)
- Dial code
- +355
- Internet domain
- .al
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 40.6550ยฐ N, 20.1140ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Albanian
- UN region
- Southern Europe
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $15.28B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Albania stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
140th
of 242 ยท 0.04% of world population
Land area
144th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
142nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
105th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Albania
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,854,191 people, the 140th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,690 of everyone alive.
Covers 28,748 kmยฒ, making it the 144th largest country here - about 11.1 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 99 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Tirana, at 41.33ยฐ N, 19.82ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 895,350.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Montenegro, Greece and North Macedonia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Tirane.
The currency is the Albanian lek (ALL, symbol L).
The official language is Albanian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Tirane
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Tirana
Durrรซs
41.3275ยฐ N, 19.8189ยฐ E
895.35K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Albania.