المدن

بلدة · Durrës

Krujë

Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Himarë

The centre of the Riviera coast: a Greek-speaking historical community, an old hill village and a string of coves.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Ksamil

Four small islands and very clear shallow water; the most photographed and most crowded stretch of the Albanian coast.

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بلدة · Gjirokastër

Përmet

A small Vjosa-side town known for its fruit preserves, thermal baths and polyphonic singing.

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بلدة · Korçë

Pogradec

A lakeside town on Ohrid, a UNESCO natural and cultural site shared with North Macedonia.

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بلدة · Lezhë

Lezhë

Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.

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بلدة · Gjirokastër

Tepelenë

Ali Pasha's birthplace, at the confluence of the Vjosa and the Drino.

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بلدة · Gjirokastër

Libohovë

A hill town below a castle built by Ali Pasha for his sister, opposite Gjirokastër.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Delvinë

A hill town above the Sarandë plain with a mixed Albanian and Greek population.

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بلدة · Berat

Çorovodë

The seat of Skrapar municipality and the base for the Osum canyon.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Konispol

Albania's southernmost town, on the Greek border near the Butrint wetlands.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Orikum

A marina town at the foot of Llogara, beside the ancient harbour of Oricum.

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بلدة · Kukës

Kukës

A town rebuilt above a reservoir in the 1970s, and the northern end of the Nation's Road.

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بلدة · Dibër

Peshkopi

The seat of Dibër County, known for thermal springs and the high pastures below Mount Korab.

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بلدة · Korçë

Ersekë

The highest town in Albania, seat of Kolonjë municipality below Mount Gramos.

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بلدة · Korçë

Bilisht

The seat of Devoll municipality, on the Greek border in an apple-growing plain.

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بلدة · Fier

Ballsh

The seat of Mallakastër and the site of Albania's main oil refinery, near the ruins of Byllis.

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بلدة · Dibër

Burrel

The seat of Mat municipality in the central highlands, near the Mat river dams.

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بلدة · Tiranë

Kavajë

A market town behind the Adriatic dunes, near the wide beaches of Golem and Spille.

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بلدة · Tiranë

Kamëz

A city on Tirana's northern edge that grew almost entirely from internal migration after 1991.

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بلدة · Dibër

Bulqizë

A chromium mining town — Albania is among the world's larger chrome producers.

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بلدة · Kukës

Krumë

The seat of Has municipality in the north-eastern hills near Kosovo.

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بلدة · Gjirokastër

Dropull

A valley of villages south of Gjirokastër with a large Greek-speaking population.

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بلدة · Gjirokastër

Këlcyrë

A town at the mouth of the Këlcyrë gorge on the Vjosa.

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بلدة · Shkodër

Koplik

The seat of Malësi e Madhe, at the foot of the Alps near the Montenegrin border.

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بلدة · Berat

Kuçovë

An oil town and air base, called Qyteti Stalin from 1950 to 1990.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Finiq

A municipality of villages near Sarandë, containing the Blue Eye and the ancient site of Phoenice.

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بلدة · Kukës

Bajram Curri

The road head for the Valbona valley, named after a guerrilla leader of the 1920s.

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بلدة · Fier

Lushnjë

An agricultural centre on the Myzeqe plain, and the site of the 1920 congress that saved Albanian statehood.

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بلدة · Lezhë

Rrëshen

The seat of Mirditë, historic centre of Albania's copper mining region.

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بلدة · Elbasan

Cërrik

A town founded around an oil refinery in the 1950s.

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بلدة · Berat

Poliçan

A small town below Mount Tomorr built around a former arms factory.

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بلدة · Korçë

Pustec

A lakeside municipality on Lake Prespa with a recognised Macedonian minority.

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بلدة · Lezhë

Shëngjin

A northern beach resort and small commercial port backed by the Kune-Vain pine lagoons.

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بلدة · Lezhë

Laç

An industrial town and the site of the Saint Anthony pilgrimage church at Shëngjin i Vogël.

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بلدة · Durrës

Fushë-Krujë

The industrial town on the plain below Krujë, and the site of Albania's largest cement works.

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بلدة · Elbasan

Librazhd

A Shkumbin-valley town at the gate of Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park.

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بلدة · Elbasan

Peqin

A small town on the Shkumbin at a crossing point used since Roman times.

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بلدة · Tiranë

Vorë

A road and rail junction between Tirana, Durrës and the airport.

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بلدة · Elbasan

Belsh

A hill town surrounded by more than eighty small lakes and extensive olive groves.

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بلدة · Fier

Divjakë

The town beside the Karavasta lagoon and the pine forest of the national park.

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بلدة · Korçë

Maliq

A town on a drained marsh plain, built around a sugar refinery in the 1950s.

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بلدة · Shkodër

Pukë

A forested highland town on the old road north, at about 830 m.

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بلدة · Tiranë

Rrogozhinë

A junction town on the Shkumbin near the Bashtovë fortress and the Spille beaches.

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بلدة · Durrës

Shijak

A market town between Durrës and Tirana with a long-established Roma and Egyptian community.

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بلدة · Shkodër

Vau i Dejës

The town beside the lowest dam of the Drin cascade, east of Shkodër.

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بلدة · Vlorë

Selenicë

A bitumen-mining town inland from Vlorë, worked since antiquity.

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بلدة · Elbasan

Prrenjas

A former nickel-mining town on the road to Lake Ohrid.

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بلدة · Elbasan

Gramsh

A mountain town on the Devoll river, once the site of a large arms plant.

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بلدة · Gjirokastër

Memaliaj

A former coal-mining town in the Vjosa valley.

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بلدة · Fier

Roskovec

A small agricultural town in the Fier oil and farming belt.

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بلدة · Shkodër

Fushë-Arrëz

A small timber and mining town in the northern highlands.

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بلدة · Berat

Ura Vajgurore

A market town on the Osum in the Berat plain.

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بلدة · Dibër

Klos

A Mat-valley town on the road between Burrel and the eastern mountains.

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