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Albania

832
Total Protected Areas
1 With management effectiveness evaluations
Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas
Other effective area-based conservation measures
0
Total Other effective area-based conservation measures
Polygons/Points ratio
Polygons 11%
Points 89%
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Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
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• Dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties.
• Final boundary between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan has not yet been determined.
• Final status of the Abyei area is not yet determined.
• A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

Terrestrial and inland waters protected area coverage

23.65% Coverage

6,764km2 Land area covered

28,600km2 Total land area

15.83% 5th National Report coverage

PAME

0.31% With management effectiveness evaluations

88km2 Areas assessed

Marine protected area Coverage

3.36% Coverage

422km2 Marine and coastal area covered

12,547km2 Total marine and coastal area

PAME

0% With management effectiveness evaluations

0km2 Areas assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

IUCN Management Categories

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Governance types

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Sources 5

  1. European inventory of Nationally Designated Areas (NatDA) as provided by the European Environment Agency (EEA) Updated: 2024 European Environment Agency (EEA)
  2. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Updated: 2024 IUCN World Heritage Programme
  3. Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance Updated: 2023 Ramsar Secretariat, on behalf of Ramsar Contracting Parties
  4. Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance Updated: 2020 Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA)
  5. Emerald Network Updated: 2024 Council of Europe

Designations

  • 96.15%
  • 3.13%
  • 0.72%

National designations

800
  • Protected Landscape (category V IUCN) 5
  • Managed Nature Reserve (category IV IUCN) 25
  • National Park (category II) 15
  • Strict Nature Reserve (category I) 2
  • Resource Reserve (category VI) 4
  • Nature Monument (Category III IUCN) 749

Regional designations

26
  • Emerald Network 25
  • Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (Barcelona Convention) 1

International designations

6
  • Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance 4
  • World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) 2

Other designations

0

    citation

    UNEP-WCMC (2025). Protected Area Profile for Albania from the World Database on Protected Areas, March 2025. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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    UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2025), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], March 2025, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.