Lezhë County

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

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%