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Albania has a total area of . It shares a border with Montenegro to the northwest, a border with Kosovo to the northeast, a border with Macedonia to the north and east, and a border with Greece to the south and southeast. Albania's coastline length on the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea is .〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://aguas.igme.es/igme/publica/tiac-02/ALBANIA-I.pdf )〕 The lowlands of the west face the Adriatic Sea and the strategically important Strait of Otranto, which puts less than of water between Albania and the heel of the Italian "boot" (links Adriatic Sea to Ionian Sea and Mediterranean Sea). ==Borders== With the exception of the coastline, all Albanian borders are artificial. They were established in principle at the 1912-1913 conference of ambassadors in London. The country was occupied by Italian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Austro-Hungarian, Greek, and French forces during World War I, but the 1913 boundaries were essentially reaffirmed by the victorious states in 1921. Division of the lake district among three states required that each of them have a share of the lowlands in the vicinity. Such an artificial distribution, once made, necessarily affected the borderlines to the north and south. The border that runs generally north from the lakes, although it follows the ridges of the eastern highlands, stays sixteen to thirty-two kilometers west of the watershed divide. Because negotiators at the London conference declined to use the watershed divide as the northeast boundary of the new state of Albania, the Albanian population of Kosovo was incorporated into Serbia. In Albania's far north and the northeast mountainous sections, the border connects high points and follows mountain ridges through the largely inaccessible Prokletije, and further south ''Bjeshkët e Namuna'' (''The Accursed Mountains''). For the most part, there is no natural boundary from the highlands to the Adriatic, although Lake Shkodër and a portion of the Buna River south of it were used to mark Albania's northwest border. From the lake district south and southwest to the Ionian Sea, the country's southeast border goes against the grain of the land, crossing a number of ridges instead of following them. There are four main geographical regions in Albania: the Northern Mountain Range ((アルバニア語:Krahina Malore Veriore)) (the Albanian part of the Prokletije), the Southern Mountain Range, the Western Lowlands ((アルバニア語:Ultësira Bregdetare)), and the Central Mountain Range ((アルバニア語:Krahina Malore Qendrore)).〔(Buletini i i Universitetit Shteteror te Tiranes, 1964, p. 110 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geography of Albania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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