Map of Albania

Albania is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 41.0° N, 20.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Albania is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Albania shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Albania covers about 28,748 km² (11,100 sq mi). That makes it the 141st-largest country in the world by area and the 34th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 11 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,363,314, the 143rd-largest in the world and the 31st-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Albania has an average population density of about 82 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 31st by population and 34th by area.

The seat of government is Tirana, and the official currency is the Albanian lek (ALL, L), and the main official language is Albanian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Albania carries the ISO country codes AL and ALB, dials on the international calling code +355 and uses the .al internet domain.

Albania shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Greece (capital Athens, about 10,400,720 people), North Macedonia (capital Skopje, about 1,822,612 people), Kosovo (capital Pristina, about 1,585,566 people) and Montenegro (capital Podgorica, about 623,327 people).

By area, Albania is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 41.0° N, 20.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Albania within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Tirana. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Albania lies about 4,551 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Albania keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Albanian lek (ALL, L).

The official language is Albanian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +355 and websites commonly use the .al internet domain.

In short, Albania is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Tirana. Albania has a population of about 2,363,314 and covers around 28,748 km² (11,100 sq mi), ranking it 143rd in the world by population and 141st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Albania.

The flag of Albania features a silhouetted double-headed black eagle at the center of a red field.

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