Airport · Kukës
Kukës International Airport
A small northern airport that opened to commercial flights in 2021, mainly serving the diaspora.
- Rebuilt
- Relocated in the 1970s when the Fierza reservoir flooded the old site
- Population (town)
- 15,643 (2023)
- Elevation
- 320 m
- Official website
- https://kukesi.gov.al/
In plain language
Kukës is a mountain town in the north-east. The old town was flooded when a dam was built, so a new one was built higher up beside the new lake. During the Kosovo war in 1999 the town sheltered many thousands of refugees.
Simple explanation
Kukës is a mountain town in the north-east. The old town was flooded when a dam was built, so a new one was built higher up beside the new lake. During the Kosovo war in 1999 the town sheltered many thousands of refugees.
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Inside Kukës
Protected area · Kukës
Valbona Valley National Park
A broad U-shaped glacial valley of white gravel and beech forest under the Alps' highest peaks.
Energy site · Kukës
Fierza Hydropower Plant
The uppermost and largest of the Drin dams, creating a reservoir shared with Kosovo.
Road · Kukës
A1 — the Nation's Road
The Durrës–Kukës–Morina motorway, including the 5.6 km Kalimash tunnel, linking Albania to Kosovo.
Town · Kukës
Bajram Curri
The road head for the Valbona valley, named after a guerrilla leader of the 1920s.
Village · Kukës
Valbonë
A wide white riverbed under 2,500 m peaks; the eastern end of the Theth trek.
Town · Kukës
Kukës
A town rebuilt above a reservoir in the 1970s, and the northern end of the Nation's Road.
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Connected subjects
Nearby
County
Dibër County
Albania's mountain interior on the North Macedonian border, containing Mount Korab.
City · Shkodër
Shkodër
The cultural capital of the north: a lake, a fortress, a bicycle city and a Catholic heartland.
Airport · Kukës
Kukës International Airport
A small northern airport that opened to commercial flights in 2021, mainly serving the diaspora.
Energy site · Kukës
Fierza Hydropower Plant
The uppermost and largest of the Drin dams, creating a reservoir shared with Kosovo.
Town · Lezhë
Lezhë
Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.
Mountain range · Shkodër
The Albanian Alps
The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Road · Kukës
A1 — the Nation's Road
The Durrës–Kukës–Morina motorway, including the 5.6 km Kalimash tunnel, linking Albania to Kosovo.
Sources
- Wikipedia.
Kukës — English Wikipedia
· retrieved 13 Oct 2026
Used to ground the deep-research section and as a discovery aid; not relied on alone for contested claims. - Wikidata.
Wikidata item Q210197
· retrieved 13 Oct 2026
Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year. - Wikimedia Commons.
Photographs
· retrieved 13 Oct 2026
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