Albania, cikakken sunan Jamhuriyar Albania, ya mamaye yanki kilomita murabba'i 28,748. Ya kasance a gabar yamma ta gabar Tekun Balkan a kudu maso gabashin Turai. Tana iyaka da Sabiya da Montenegro (Yugoslavia) a arewa, Makedoniya a arewa maso gabas, Girka a kudu maso gabas, Tekun Adriatic da Ionian a yamma, da Italia a ƙetaren Otranto. Yankin bakin gabar yana da nisan kilomita 472. Duwatsu da tsaunuka na lissafin 3/4 na yankin ƙasar, kuma gabar yamma ta bayyana. Tana da yanayin Yankin Bahar Rum.

Albanians zuriyar tsoffin mazaunan Balkan ne, Ilyan. Bayan karni na 9 miladiyya, daular Byzantine, da Masarautar Bulgaria, da Masarautar Sabiya, da Jamhuriyar Venice suke mulkinsu. An kafa mulkin mallaka mai zaman kansa a shekara ta 1190. Turkawa sun mamaye ta a shekarar 1415 kuma Turkiyya ta mallaki kusan shekaru 500. An ayyana Independancin kai a ranar 28 ga Nuwamba, 1912. A lokacin yakin duniya na farko, sojojin Austriya-Hungary, Italia, Faransa da sauran kasashe suka mamaye ta.Ya zuwa 1920, Afghanistan ta sake ayyana ‘yancinta. An kafa gwamnatin bourgeois a 1924, aka kafa jamhuriya a 1925, sannan aka canza masarauta zuwa masarauta a 1928. Sogu ya kasance sarki har zuwa mamayar Italia a watan Afrilu 1939. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, 'yan fascists na Italiya da na Jamusawa sun mamaye ta a jere (waɗanda masu fasikanci na Jamus suka mamaye a 1943). A ranar 29 ga Nuwamba, 1944, mutanen Azerbaijan karkashin jagorancin Jam’iyyar Kwaminisanci sun yi yakin kwatar ‘yanci na’ yan fascist na ’yan kasa don kwace iko da’ yanta kasar. Ranar 11 ga Janairu, 1946, aka kafa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Albania. A shekarar 1976, an yiwa Kundin Tsarin Mulki kwaskwarima kuma aka sauya sunan zuwa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Albania. A watan Afrilu na 1991, an zartar da gyaran tsarin mulki inda aka sauyawa kasar suna zuwa Jamhuriyar Albania.

Tutar kasa: Yana da murabba'i mai kusurwa huɗu zuwa faɗi 7: 5. Flagasar tuta jaja ce mai duhu tare da baƙin mikiya mai kai biyu da aka zana a tsakiya. An san Albania da "ƙasar gaggafa ta tsafi", kuma ana ɗaukan mikiya alama ce ta jarumin ƙasar Skanderbeg.

Yawan Albaniya ya kai miliyan 3.134 (2005), wanda Albaniyawa ke da kashi 98%. Minorananan kabilun galibi Girkanci ne, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, da sauransu. Harshen hukuma shine Albaniyanci. Kashi 70% na mazauna sun yi imani da Islama, 20% sun yi imani da Cocin Orthodox, kuma 10% sun yi imani da Katolika.

Tirana: Tirana, babban birnin Albania, ita ce cibiyar siyasa, tattalin arziki, al'adu da sufuri ta Albania kuma babban birnin Tirana. Tana cikin kwandon da ke gefen yamma na Kruya Mountain a tsakiyar yankin Kogin Issem, kewaye da duwatsu ta gabas, kudu da arewa, kilomita 27 yamma da gabar tekun Adriatic, kuma a ƙarshen tsakiyar Albania mai ni'ima. Matsakaicin matsakaici shine 23.5 ℃ kuma mafi ƙanƙanci shine 6.8 ℃. Mafi yawan mazaunan garin musulmai ne.

Janar din Baturke ne ya fara gina Tirana a farkon karni na 17. Domin jan hankalin bakin haure, ya kafa masallaci, shagon kek da wanka. Tare da ci gaban sufuri da ƙaruwar vyari, Tirana sannu a hankali ya zama cibiyar kasuwanci. A cikin 1920, taron Lushne ya yanke shawarar mayar da Tirana babban birnin Albania. A zamanin Sarki Zog na daya daga 1928 zuwa 1939, an dauki hayar gine-ginen Italiya don sake tsara garin Tirana. Bayan mamayar Albaniya ta Jamusawa da Italia daga 1939 zuwa 1944 ya ƙare, an kafa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Albania a Tirana a ranar 11 ga Janairun 1946.

Itatuwa sun mamaye garin, akwai wuraren shakatawa sama da 200 da kuma lambunan kan titi, kuma hanyoyi da dama masu layi-layi suna fitowa daga dandalin Skanderbeg da ke tsakiyar garin. A shekarar 1969, a daidai lokacin da aka cika shekaru 23 da kafuwar Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Albania, an kammala mutum-mutumin tagulla na gwarzon Albaniya Skanderbeg a dandalin Skanderbeg. Kusa da dandalin akwai masallaci (wanda aka gina a 1819), da gidan sarauta na daular Sogu, da Gidan Tarihi na Yakin Liberationancin Liberationanci, da Fadar Masana'antu da Al'adu na Rasha, da kuma Jami'ar Nationalasa ta Tirana. Babban ɓangaren gabas da arewacin garin shine tsohon gari, inda mafi yawansu gine-ginen tsohon yayi ne da halaye na gargajiya. Akwai gidajen kallo, gidajen tarihi da dakunan kade-kade a cikin birnin. Dutsen Daeti da ke gefen gabashin birnin yana da tsayin mita 1612. Yana da kadada 3,500 na Daeti National Park, kewaye da tabkuna na wucin gadi, gidajen wasan kwaikwayo na waje, da gidajen hutawa.