संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Karaburun-Sazan Marine Park
Albania's only marine national park: sea caves, wrecks and the country's clearest water.
सरल भाषा में
This section covers Albania's landscape: the mountains, rivers, lakes and national parks.
national parks
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संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Llogara National Park
A pine-forested pass at 1,027 m where the road drops from mountain forest to the Ionian in a few kilometres.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Butrint National Park
A wetland and forest park wrapped around the archaeological city, on the Vivari channel.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Divjakë-Karavasta National Park
Coastal pine forest, dunes and lagoon protecting the region's Dalmatian pelican colony.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Kune-Vain Nature Reserve
Lagoons, pine and one of Albania's few surviving coastal alluvial forests, beside Shëngjin.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Theth National Park
The glacial valley park at the heart of the Albanian Alps, merged into a wider protected complex in 2022.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Vjosa Wild River National Park
Declared in March 2023, Europe's first national park built around a whole free-flowing river system.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Lurë-Dejë Mountain National Park
A cluster of small glacial lakes among black pine on the Lurë ridge, badly damaged by logging and slowly recovering.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.
संरक्षित क्षेत्र
Prespa National Park
The Albanian share of a three-country park around the Great and Small Prespa lakes.
पर्वत
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पर्वत
Mount Tomorr
A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.
पर्वत
Mount Korab
At 2,764 m the highest point in both Albania and North Macedonia, on the border ridge.
पर्वत
Maja Jezercë
At 2,694 m the highest peak entirely inside the Dinaric Alps, deep in the Albanian Alps.
पर्वत
Mount Dajti
Tirana's own mountain: 1,613 m, a national park, and a 4.2 km cable car from the city edge.
पर्वत
Maja e Çikës
The 2,045 m high point of the Ceraunian ridge, directly above the Riviera coast.
पर्वत श्रृंखलाएँ
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पर्वत श्रृंखला
Ceraunian Mountains
The coastal ridge that makes the Riviera: 2,000 m peaks rising directly out of the Ionian.
पर्वत श्रृंखला
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
नदियाँ
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नदी
The Vjosa
One of the last large free-flowing rivers in Europe, declared a Wild River National Park in March 2023.
नदी
The Shala River
A tributary of the Drin above Koman, reached by boat and often called Albania's Thailand.
नदी
The Shkumbin
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
नदी
The Drin
Albania's longest river and the backbone of its electricity system, dammed three times in the north.
नदी
The Osum
The river that carved the Osum canyon and runs through the middle of Berat.
नदी
The Buna
The short outflow of Lake Shkodër, and Albania's only navigable river.
झीलें और लैगून
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झील
Lake Ohrid
One of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes, UNESCO-listed and home to species found nowhere else.
झील
Lake Prespa
A high tectonic lake where Albania, Greece and North Macedonia meet, draining underground into Ohrid.
झील
Lake Shkodër
The largest lake in southern Europe, shared with Montenegro and a major bird wintering ground.
झील
Karavasta Lagoon
The largest lagoon in Albania and the western Balkans' main breeding site for the Dalmatian pelican.
झील
Narta Lagoon
Albania's second-largest lagoon, with working saltpans and the island monastery of Zvërnec.
झील
Bovilla Reservoir
Tirana's drinking-water reservoir, ringed by limestone cliffs half an hour from the capital.
झील
Lake Koman
A 34 km reservoir in a gorge so narrow the ferry crossing is treated as a scenic journey in its own right.
झरने (स्रोत)
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झरना (स्रोत)
The Blue Eye
A karst spring of extraordinary clarity whose bottom has never been definitively reached.
झरना (स्रोत)
Bënjë Thermal Springs
Sulphur pools beside the Ottoman Katiu bridge, at the mouth of the Lengarica canyon.
घाटियाँ
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घाटी
Osum Canyon
A 26 km limestone gorge up to 80 m deep, run by raft in spring and walked in late summer.
घाटी
Gjipe Canyon
A narrow limestone slot that meets the sea at Gjipe beach — the Riviera's one true canyon.
जलप्रपात
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जलप्रपात
Bogovë Waterfall
A cold spring-fed fall and pool in the Tomorr foothills near Berat.
जलप्रपात
Grunas Waterfall
A 25–30 m fall in the Theth valley, and a declared natural monument.