Lezhë County

Lezhë County is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Kurbin, Lezhë and Mirditë. The capital is Lezhë.

Lezhë has a small western shoreline on the Adriatic Sea.

Demographics

According to the last national census from 2011 this county has 134,027 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the county include:

• Albanians = 116,469 (86.90%)
• Greeks = 41 (0.03%)
• Macedonians = 9 (0.01%)
• Montenegrins = 8 (0.01%)
• Aromanians = 15 (0.01%)
• Romani = 187 (0.14%)
• Egyptians = 240 (0.18%)
• others = 18 (0.01%)
• no answer = 17,040 (12.71%)

Religion in Lezhë County (2011 census)
religion			percent
Catholic			98.38%
Muslim			1.62%
Prefer not to answer			8%
Not relevant/not stated			3.13%
Believers without denomination			1.09%
Atheist			0.33%
Orthodox			0.25%
Evangelist or Protestant			0.06%
Others			0.01%
Other Christian			0.01%