Cities

Tirana

Citation Formats

General Reference

Geography Atlas. "Tirana." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/tirana.

APA Style

Geography Atlas. (n.d.). Tirana. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/tirana

BibTeX

@misc{geographyatlas-tirana,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {Tirana},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/cities/tirana},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Tirana is the capital and largest city of Albania, in the centre of the country surrounded by mountains. Settled in 1614 by Ottoman nobleman Sylejman Pasha Bargjini, it became the capital in 1920 and is the country's political, economic and cultural hub.

Facts

Population

526,017 1

2011 census figure (urban population, the infobox's primary headline figure), from Tirana's own Wikipedia infobox; the wider municipality is given separately as 598,176 and the metro area as 800,986.

Area (sq km)

41.8 1

Founding Year

1614 1

1614 is the year Tirana was settled by Ottoman nobleman Sylejman Pasha Bargjini, the date the infobox itself gives; it became Albania's capital in 1920.

Population Estimate Year

2011 1

Latitude

41.32833 degrees north 1

Longitude

19.81806 degrees east 1

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