Durres
Durrës Municipality is the second largest municipality in Albania following Tirana. Its main administrative unit is Durrës, one of the oldest inhabited cities of the world. The main port of the country is located in Durrës, opposite if the Italian ports of Bari and Brindisi. In Durrës there is also one of the largest amphitheatres in the Balkan Peninsula whose capacity is believed to have been about 20.000 persons. Geographically speaking, Durrës Municipality is bordered by Kurbin Municipality to the north, Kruja Municipality to the north-east, Vora Municipality to the east, Shijak Municipality to the south-east, Tirana and Kavaja Municipalities to the south. Durrës Municipality is bordered by the Adriatic Sea to the west. Durrës Municipality is rich in historical ruins of antiquity and is one of the most economically important municipalities of the country. Based on the Census 2011, within the territory of Durrës Municipality there are 175,110 inhabitants, whereas according to the Civil Registration Office there are 299,989 inhabitants. The new municipality consists of four administrative units, namely: Durrës, Sukthi, Ishmi, Katundi i Ri, Rrashbulli and Manëza. The municipality administers one city, Durrës, and two towns, Sukth and Manëz, as well as 39 villages. The long coastline is an added value for the city and it highlights the main feature of this municipality as a tourist attraction, considering that, apart from Durrës beach, there is Lalsi Bay and Cape of Rodon, which have formerly been under the administration of the following communes: Ishëm, Sukth, Katundi Ri and Rrashbull. At the port of Durrës, 90% of the total portal loading-unloading volume is processed, which renders it the most important trading point of the country. Durrës, owing to the facilitations created by the port, has been developed and is the most important city with respect to industry, whereas tourism attraction has marked an economic boom in the construction over the last two decades. Durrës is an internal migration affected area at a large scale, which has brought about the rapid and informal expansion of the city in the ish-Këneta zone, as well as along the coastline to the south of the city.