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NXS-GRX-ALB · Southern Europe · Regions

Albania: 12 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 12 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-ALB-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ALB / ALStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
12
first-level units
422
units at 3 levels
2,799,733
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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Albania by province, state and territory

12 first-level units and 37 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 12 first-level units of Albania
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Amazinga

Every administrative level of Albania

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
12 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
37 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · each with its own page
ADM3
373 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
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All 12 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Public Domain · Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Berat AL-01 95,380 105,622 1,815 53 3.4% 0
Dibër AL-09 90,293 100,500 2,530 36 3.2% 0
Durrës AL-02 285,784 301,911 750 381 10.2% 58,064
Elbasan AL-03 225,649 250,203 3,358 67 8.1% 0
Fier AL-04 228,672 261,216 1,865 123 8.2% 78,775
Gjirokastër AL-05 47,378 50,502 2,969 16 1.7% 0
Korçë AL-06 172,926 184,006 3,527 49 6.2% 0
Kukës AL-07 60,999 70,428 2,460 25 2.2% 0
Lezhë AL-08 112,994 108,896 1,538 73 4% 27,132
Shkodër AL-10 178,337 187,734 3,438 52 6.4% 32,460
Tiranë AL-11 1,143,516 966,388 1,612 709 40.8% 9,714
Vlorë AL-12 157,805 174,862 2,737 58 5.6% 23,537
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Albania publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ALB ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikipedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ALB ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Albania districts blank 2.svg, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic · source · represents 2021
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ALB ADM3, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2013. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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