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Area: total: 28,748 sq km
land: 27,398 sq km
water: 1,350 sq km

Climate: mild temperate cool, cloudy, wet winters hot, clear, dry summers interior is cooler and wetter

Terrain: mostly mountains and hills small plains along coast

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, bauxite, chromite, copper, iron ore, nickel, salt, timber, hydropower

Population: 3,619,778 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 23.6% [male 447,126/female 406,757]
15-64 years: 66.9% [male 1,239,819/female 1,180,720]
65 years and over: 9.5% [male 160,241/female 185,115] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Albanian[s]
adjective: Albanian

Ethnic groups: Albanian 95%, Greek 3%, other 2% [Vlach, Roma [Gypsy], Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian] [1989 est.]
note: in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% [official Albanian statistics] to 12% [from a Greek organization]

Languages: Albanian [official - derived from Tosk dialect], Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects

Capital: name: Tirana [Tirane]
geographic coordinates: 41 19 N, 19 49 E
time difference: UTC+1 [6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Independence Day, 28 November [1912]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 21.2%
industry: 20.1%
services: 58.7% [2007 est.]

Labor force: 1.09 million [not including 352,000 emigrant workers] [September 2006 est.]

Budget: revenues: $2.786 billion
expenditures: $3.159 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, sugar beets, grapes meat, dairy products

Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower

Exports: $1.089 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: textiles and footwear asphalt, metals and metallic ores, crude oil vegetables, fruits, tobacco

Exports - partners: Italy 67.6%, Serbia and Montenegro 5.8%, Greece 5.4% [2006]

Imports: $3.891 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, chemicals

Imports - partners: Italy 31.9%, Greece 17.7%, Turkey 8.1%, Germany 5.7% [2006]

Currency (code): lek [ALL]
note: the plural of lek is leke

Exchange rates: leke per US dollar - 92.668 [2007], 98.384 [2006], 102.649 [2005], 102.78 [2004], 121.863 [2003]

Airports: 11 [2007]

Railways: total: 447 km
standard gauge: 447 km 1.435-m gauge [2006]

Merchant marine: total: 24 ships [1000 GRT or over] 56,550 GRT/85,521 DWT
by type: cargo 23, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 1 [Turkey 1]
registered in other countries: 3 [Georgia 2, Panama 1] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore