{"id":364578,"date":"2026-06-06T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=364578"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:43:45","slug":"key-facts-about-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thousands of people protested in Tirana, Albania, against plans to build a luxury resort on a protected area of the Adriatic coast.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>Key Facts about Albania<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/r\/w1200\/upload\/e7\/77\/c2\/al-01.jpg?resize=283%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Key Facts about Albania\" width=\"283\" height=\"310\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Albania is located in the <\/span><b>southeastern region of the European continent,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Bordering nations:<\/strong> It is <strong>bordered by 4 Nations<\/strong>: <\/span><b>by Montenegro in the northwest; by Kosovo in the northeast; by North Macedonia in the east; and by Greece in the south and southeast.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Maritime borders:<\/strong> It shares its maritime borders with<strong> Italy, Greece and Montenegro.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Bordering sea: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>bounded by the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Ionian Sea in the southwest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Tirana<\/strong> is the capital of Albania.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Terrain:<\/strong> Its landscape <\/span>ranges from<b> snow-capped mountains to warm and sunny coastal areas <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">along the<\/span><b> Ionian and Adriatic seas.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>The land rises from the<strong> broad, swampy Adriatic coastal plain into hills and mountains, which cover about 70% of Albania&#8217;s area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Mountain ranges:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Major mountain ranges of Albania are <\/span><b>the Albanian Alps and the Korab and Pindus Mountains.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Highest point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The highest point is <\/span><b>Mt. Karabit in the Korab Mountains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at 9,066 ft (<strong>2,764 m<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mountain is located on<\/span><b> Albania&#8217;s border with North Macedonia.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>River: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several important rivers, including the <\/span><b>Drin and Vlor\u00eb, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">flow from the mountains toward the Adriatic Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Lakes: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has three major lakes<\/span><b>: Lake Shkodra (shared with Montenegro) and Lakes Ohrid and Prespa (<\/b>shared with<b> North Macedonia).<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lake Ohrid<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the<\/span><b> deepest lake in the Balkans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, reaching a depth of <strong>284 m (935 ft).<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Thousands of people protested in Tirana, Albania, against plans to build a luxury resort on a protected area of the Adriatic coast.\u00a0 Key Facts about Albania Location: Albania is located in the southeastern region of the European continent, in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.\u00a0 Bordering nations: It is bordered by 4 Nations:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-albania\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key Facts about Albania<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11972,11853],"class_list":["post-364578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9-pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}