Albania Overview Nations // North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

OVERVIEW Albania is bordered to the northwest by Montenegro, northeast by Kosovo, east by Macedonia, southeast by Greece and west by the Adriatic Sea. Italy is located less than 100 km (62 mi) across the Adriatic Sea to the west. Post-Communist Albania re-established diplomatic and security relations with Europe and the United States following 45 years of self-imposed political and economic isolation under the one-party Marxist-Leninist rule of Enver Hoxha and his successor. Hoxha...