A country in Southeastern Europe, in the
Balkans region. It is bordered by
Montenegro to the northwest,
Serbia to the northeast, the
Republic of Macedonia to the east and
Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the
Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the
Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than 72 km (45 mi) from
Italy, across the
Strait of Otranto which links the
Adriatic Sea to the
Ionian Sea. Albania is a member of the
UN,
NATO, the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe,
Council of Europe,
World Trade Organisation,
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and one of the founding members of the
Union for the Mediterranean. Albania has been a
potential candidate for accession to the European Union since January 2003, and it formally applied for
EU membership on 28 April 2009.
Albania has the distinction of being the only Muslim-majority sovereign country wholly within Europe, although the population is largely secular.
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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