Region
Northern Albania is one of the three NUTS-2 regions of the country. It takes in the counties of Dibër, Durrës, Kukës, Lezhë and Shkodër and has historically been called Ghegeria.
It holds the Albanian part of Lake Skadar, the three reservoirs of the Drin cascade, Fierza, Koman and Vau i Dejës, whose ferry trip between Koman and Fierza is one of the best known in Albania, and the glacial Lura lakes. Four national and nature parks lie here.
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Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0Albania (Northern Albania) · Montenegro (Central Montenegro)
Lake Skadar lies on the border between Montenegro and Albania and is the largest lake in the Balkans. It is a karst lake with a changeable shoreline: its water rises and falls with the seasons over a wide flat plain…
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Activities in Northern Albania
Floating islands, a tortoise island, a church standing in the water, a lake that turns into a football pitch and remote Prokletije lakes: seven off-the-beaten-path lake stops in the Balkans.
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