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Saints: 11 Saints, 40 Blesseds

Continent: East Europe

Capital: Tirana

Area: 27,398 km²

Population: 3,047,987

Neighbouring Countries: ← Italy , ↖ Montenegro , ↗ Kosovo , → North Macedonia , ↘ Greece

Religions: Muslim 56.7%, Roman Catholic 10%, Orthodox 6.8%, atheist 2.5%, Bektashi (a Sufi order) 2.1%, other 5.7%, unspecified 16.2%

Languages: Albanian 98.8% (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek 0.5%, other 0.6% (including Macedonian, Romani, Vlach, Turkish, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian), unspecified 0.1%

Ethnic Groups: Albanian 82.6%, Greek 0.9%, other 1% (including Vlach, Romani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Egyptian), unspecified 15.5%

Motto: Feja e Shqiptarit është Shqiptaria (Albanian) (The Faith of the Albanians is Albanism); Ti, Shqipëri, më jep nder, më jep emrin Shqiptar (Albanian) (You Albania give me honor, you give me the name Albanian)

Area: 28,748 km²

Catholic Population: 478,000 Catholics (16.9% of 2,830,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 121 parishes, 1 mission station (with resident priest), 35 other centres

Clergy: 11 bishops (5 diocesan, 6 titular), 147 priests (57 diocesan, 90 religious)

Non-Clergy: 455 religious (16 brothers, 439 sisters), 36 major seminarians, 39 missionaries, 144 catechists