Albania is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest.
It is less than 72 km (45 mi) from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
Albania is a member of the UN, NATO, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Council of Europe, World Trade Organisation, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and one of the founding members of the Union for the Mediterranean.
Albania has been a potential candidate for accession to the European Union since January 2003, and it formally applied for EU membership on 28 April 2009.
Albania is a parliamentary democracy with a transition economy. The Albanian capital, Tirana, is home to approximately 600,000 of the country's 3,000,000 people.
Free-market reforms have opened the country to foreign investment, especially in the development of energy and transportation infrastructure.
Albania was chosen as the No.1 Destination in Lonely Planet's list of ten top countries to visit for 2011.
Face value | Family number | English name | Scientific name
| 1961.01 | 30.09.1961 | Albanian birds | | |
| 1.50l | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 7.50l | 26 | Grey Heron Ardea cinerea | |
| 11l | 26 | Little Egret Egretta garzetta | |
| 1962.01 | 28.11.1962 | Anniversary of independence | 3v set | |
| 1l | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 16l | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 0.50l | 21 | Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus | |
| 3l | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 6.50l | 11 | Grey Partridge Perdix perdix | |
| 11l | 11 | Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus | |
| 1964.01 | 31.07.1964 | Albanian birds | | |
| 0.50l | 203 | Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes | |
| 1l | 178 | Eurasian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus | |
| 2.50l | 108 | European Green Woodpecker Picus viridis | |
| 3l | 207 | Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris | |
| 4l | 205 | Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea | |
| 5l | 177 | Great Tit Parus major | |
| 6l | 225 | European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis | |
| 18l | 158 | Eurasian Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus | |
| 1965.01 | 31.08.1965 | Migratory birds | | |
| 10q | 24 | White Stork Ciconia ciconia | |
| 20q | 76 | Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus | |
| 30q | 96 | Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops | |
| 40q | 95 | European Bee-eater Merops apiaster | |
| 50q | 82 | European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus | |
| 1.50l | 11 | Common Quail Coturnix coturnix | |
| 1965.02 | 06.10.1965 | Hunting | 6v set | |
| 10q | 11 | Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus | |
| 30q | 11 | Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus | |
| 40q | 14 | Mallard Anas platyrhynchos | |
| 1966.01 | 20.12.1966 | Birds of prey | | |
| 10q | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 15q | 37 | White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla | |
| 25q | 37 | Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus | |
| 40q | 37 | Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus | |
| 50q | 36 | Western Osprey Pandion haliaetus | |
| 70q | 37 | Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus | |
| 90q | 38 | Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus | |
| 1967.01 | 22.02.1967 | Dalmatian Pelican | | |
| 10q | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 15q | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 25q | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 50q | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 2l | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 1967.02 | 25.11.1967 | Domestic fowl | 8v set | |
| 15q | 11 | Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo | |
| 50q | 9 | Helmeted Guineafowl Numida meleagris | |
| 80q | 14 | Mallard Anas platyrhynchos | |
| 15q | 170 | Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus | |
| 20q | 209 | Rosy Starling Pastor roseus | |
| 25q | 92 | Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis | |
| 50q | 187 | Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus | |
| 80q | 206 | Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria | |
| 1.10l | 179 | Bearded Reedling Panurus biarmicus | |
| 5q | 177 | European Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus | |
| 10q | 225 | European Serin Serinus serinus | |
| 15q | 225 | Common Linnet Carduelis cannabina | |
| 25q | 201 | Common Firecrest Regulus ignicapilla | |
| 45q | 212 | Common Rock Thrush Monticola saxatilis | |
| 60q | 177 | Eurasian Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus | |
| 2.40l | 225 | Common Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs | |
| 1973.01 | 30.04.1973 | Sea birds | | |
| 5q | 66 | Common Tern Sterna hirundo | |
| 15q | 66 | White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| 25q | 66 | Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
| 45q | 66 | Pallas's Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | |
| 80q | 66 | Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei | |
| 2.40l | 66 | Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| 1974.01 | 15.07.1974 | Song birds | | |
| 10q | 211 | Redwing Turdus iliacus | |
| 15q | 212 | European Robin Erithacus rubecula | |
| 20q | 225 | European Greenfinch Chloris chloris | |
| 25q | 225 | Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
| 40q | 225 | Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
| 80q | 197 | Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla | |
| 2.20l | 212 | Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos | |
| 1975.01 | 15.06.1975 | Albanian wildfowl | | |
| 5q | 14 | Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope | |
| 10q | 14 | Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina | |
| 15q | 14 | Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons | |
| 20q | 14 | Northern Pintail Anas acuta | |
| 25q | 14 | Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator | |
| 30q | 14 | Common Eider Somateria mollissima | |
| 35q | 14 | Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus | |
| 2.70l | 14 | Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata | |
| 1997.01 | 10.04.1997 | Dalmatian Pelican | Strip | |
| 10l | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 80l | 29 | Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus | |
| 2003.01 | 20.08.2003 | Albanian birds | Sheet | |
| 70l | 24 | White Stork Ciconia ciconia | |
| 70l | 37 | Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos | |
| 70l | 78 | Eurasian Eagle-Owl Bubo bubo | |
| 70l | 11 | Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus | |
| 2003.02 | 20.10.2003 | Albanian nature | 3v set | |
| 20l | 29 | Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus | |
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