Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 19th March 2021

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Albanian , the official language, is spoken in two dialects - Gheg , with 300 000 speakers mainly in the North, and Tosk , with 2 900 000 speakers in the rest of the country. There are 60 000 Greek -speakers in the south near to the Greek border; 30 000 Macedonian -speakers along the border with Macedonia; 60 000 Macedo Romani-speakers and 60 000 Vlach Romani -speakers.

Albanian names are usually written:

   Given name[ ]Surname

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

Albania has four company legal types:

   General Partnership
   Joint Stock Company (Sh.A)
   Limited Partnership
   Limited Liability Company (Sh.pk) 

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

Albanian addresses follow this structure:

   Recipient information
   thoroughfare type[ ]Thoroughfare name
   building number[ ]sub-building indicators
   Postal code
   {POST OFFICE NAME}
   POSTAL TOWN

For example:

The post office name is stated usually as well as the postal town in rural addresses:

Quotation marks are used when the street is named after a person, place or event, and is in the nominative case. Addresses may contain descriptors, such as "next door to the garage".

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

(Sub-)Building indicators and thoroughfare types

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

This is written kutia postare nr. (abbreviated to K.P.) in Albanian.

On 9th October 2006, Albania started introducing a 4-digit postal code (Kodi Postar) system. The system is still in its early stages and the code is unlikely to be often found in addresses.

The first two digits indicate a postal district, the last two a post office. The postal code cannot commence with 0.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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   Note: This section last updated 29th March 2015

The Greek-speakers living near the border with Greece have their own versions for place names in the region. Vlach-speakers also have their own versions of place-names.

Refer to Exonyms in Albania for full lists of place names in Albania in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 28th August 2015

Albania consists of 12 counties (qarqe, singular - qark). These are:

    Qarku i Beratit 
    Qarku i Dibres 
    Qarku i Durresit 
    Qarku i Elbasanit 
    Qarku i Fierit 
    Qarku i Gjirokastres 
    Qarku i Korces 
    Qarku i Kukesit 
    Qarku i Lezhes 
    Qarku i Shkodres 
    Qarku i Tiranes 
    Qarku i Vlores 

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Albanian geographic numbers (in full, when called from abroad) are 8 digits in length; mobile numbers are 9 digits in length. Mobile numbers have area codes commencing 6.