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Can you locate all 10 counties of Lithuania?
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Albania is a small, mountainous country with a long Adriatic and Ionian coast, and its twelve counties are the tier everybody uses: they name the regional prefecture, the number plate and the weather forecast. Learning them is a matter of reading the map from Tirana outwards, up into the northern mountains, along the Macedonian and Greek borders, and down the coast.
The qarqe: twelve counties, each named for its largest town, with Tirana County around the capital and Korçë the largest by area. Durrës is the smallest and the most crowded, a short stretch of coast beside Tirana.
The English names carry the word County and the local name is a switch in the start dialog, so Berat is Qarku Berat. The counties are the municipalities of Albania Municipalities dissolved, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
The groups are the three statistical regions Albania is sorted into for Eurostat: Northern, Central and Southern Albania.
Tirana County holds the capital and almost a third of the country's people. It sits between the coast and the mountains, with Durrës to its west, and it is the easiest county to place first.
Durrës County is a short strip of the Adriatic coast around the country's main port. It is the smallest county on the map and the one most often mistaken for part of Tirana.
Korçë County covers the south-east of the country, around Lake Prespa and the Greek border. It is the largest county by area, a broad block that nothing else on the map matches.
Twelve. They are the first tier of the country, below the state, and they have been the same twelve since the districts were replaced in 2000, even though the municipalities beneath them were merged in 2015.
Korçë County in the south-east is the largest by area, and Tirana County around the capital is the largest by population.
No. Eurostat sorts the twelve into three regions, and those are the groups in this quiz. A county is a unit of the state with a prefect's office; a statistical region is a unit of the statistics office.
The tier below this one is Albania Municipalities, whose counties are the groups there. For another small country at this level, see Estonia Counties.
