Elbasan, Albania
🇦🇱 Elbasan is the fourth most populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Elbasan County and Elbasan Municipality. It lies to the north of the river Shkumbin between the Skanderbeg Mountains and the Myzeqe Plain in central Albania.
Economy Industrial development began during the Zog regime with the production of tobacco and alcoholic beverages, and culminated during the communist regime. The city gained prominence after the Chinese built a steel mill in 1974. One travel writer relayed from conversation that during the communist regime, "almost everyone in the country seemed to have a gun, likely manufactured by this Chinese-financed factory in Elbasan", and the "country did not seem to have tractors, ploughs, or sewing machines".
The city also hosts a ferrochrome smelter, which was commissioned in 1989 by the communist regime and now is owned by the Balfin Group.
The city was a hub for heavy industry during the communist regime, mostly metallurgic and metal processing factories. All these industries caused big pollution and Elbasan is considered today to be one of the most polluted cities of Albania.
In recent years Elbasan, like the rest of Albania, has had to deal not only with local pollution, but also with what environmentalists call "imported pollution", because of the waste imported from abroad for the recycling process in private companies.
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Elbasan has a population of over 100,903 people. Elbasan also forms the centre of the wider Elbasan County which has a population of over 266,245 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Elbasan has links with:
🇲🇪 Bar, Montenegro 🇭🇺 Dunaújváros, Hungary 🇧🇪 Liège, Belgium 🇭🇷 Osijek, Croatia🇺🇸 Clearfield 41.114
🇺🇸 Clarkstown 41.117
🇦🇱 Gjirokastër 20.133
🇵🇱 Skierniewice 20.147
Locations Near: Elbasan 20.092,41.1133
🇦🇱 Tiranë 19.83,41.318 d: 31.6
🇦🇱 Tirana 19.83,41.318 d: 31.6
🇦🇱 Kamëz 19.767,41.383 d: 40.5
🇦🇱 Lezhë 19.633,41.767 d: 82.1
Antipodal to: Elbasan -159.908,-41.113
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17367.6
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17213.5
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16853.9
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16771.5
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 13231.9
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13130.2
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13114.7
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13111.3