General Facts

• Total area: 28,748 sq. km, coastline 362 km
• Coastline bordering the Adriatic and Ionian Seas
• System of government: Parliamentary democracy
• Head of State: President, elected by parliament every five years
• Currency: Albanian Lek (ALL)
• Official Language: Albanian
• International telephone prefix: + 355
• Population: 3.64M (est. July, 2009)
• Median age ~ 30 years
• Life expectancy at birth 78 years
• Albanian capital: Tirana with 850K – 900K inhabitants

Additional Albanians in:

• Kosova (88%) =>1.87M
• Macedonia (25 %) => 0.52M
• Total Albanians in the region ~ 6 million

Natural resources:

• Mining: chromium, copper, iron ore, nickel, bauxite
• Petroleum, natural gas, coal
• Limestone, salt, timber
• Water