Durrës District
The circle Durrës (Albanian: Rrethi i Durresit ) is one of the 36 administrative districts of Albania. The circle with an area of 433 km ² belongs to the same Qark. He has 202 971 inhabitants (2011 ), where the local authorities even specify 334 871 inhabitants (2009 ). He is one of the Albanian districts with the greatest population density. It was named after the main town of Durres district.
Geography
The circle Durres is located on the Adriatic coast of central Albania. The area is mostly flat. Hills by dragging the southeast and the whole western county boundary. The plains near the coast were partially swamped until after the Second World War. Today this area is used for agriculture and is well developed. Consequently, here many internal migrants have settled from mountain regions of Albania. The circle is traversed from the southeast to the northwest from the river ores, which opens into a large bay ( Gjiri i Lalzit ). In the north of the bay is closed by a narrow peninsula, which expires in Cape Kepi i Rodonit.
The majority of the population lives in Durres, which expands rapidly and a few kilometers east situated town Shijak. The remaining areas are still very rural.
Economy
A large part of the economy of Albania focuses on the corridor Tirana - Durres, Durres with the covers next to the only international airport in the country and the main harbor. In the catchment area of the two largest cities in the country that benefits from good transport links with Western Europe, numerous service providers in the transport industry as well as several factories of joint ventures have settled. Along the main roads created numerous service companies and production facilities of all sizes.
At least in the summer counts in the meantime the tourism of the most important industries in the district. On the beach south of Durres hotel was built next to the other. Durres Plazh has developed from a former communist holiday village with a few holiday hotels and B & Bs guests to a small town with thousands of hotel beds and all additional required infrastructure for tourists. Many guests come from Tirana and other cities in northern Albania. However, the majority are Albanians exile on home leave or Albanians from Kosovo and Macedonia.
Durres is a traffic hub of the country. Because the hills approaching in the Bay of Durrës to the coast, this is a bottleneck in the north -south traffic in Albania. In the meantime, a highway connecting the capital Tirana Durres, which is continued to the south as expressway. The Albanian Railroad has its seat in Durres