Albania

The country calling code for Albania is +355. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Albania number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Albania is assigned AL as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and ALB as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Albania is .al. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Albania is the Albanian lek, with the ISO 4217 code ALL and the symbol L. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Albania are quoted in ALL. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Albania is +01:00, currently UTC+01:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Albania is Tirana. Albania sits in Europe, specifically the Southern Europe subregion. Its approximate centre point is 41.00000000, 20.00000000. Traffic in Albania drives on the right. Languages recorded for Albania: Albanian.

Albania shares a land border with 4 countries: Montenegro, Greece, North Macedonia and Republic of Kosovo. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.