Kukës District ( Albanian : Rrethi i Kukësit ) was one of the 36 districts of Albania , which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 counties . It had a population of 64,054 in 2001, and an area of 956 km (369 sq mi). The town of Kukës was where the district's administrative headquarters were located. The area of the former district is coextensive with the present municipality of Kukës , which is part of Kukës County .
4-478: The district consisted of the following municipalities : Note: - urban municipalities in bold The district lies in the northeastern part of Albania and is bordered by District of Prizren in the east and northeast, by Has District in the north, by Pukë District and Mirditë District in the west and by Dibër District in the south. This article about a specific location in Kukës County , Albania,
8-474: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Municipalities of Albania Municipalities ( Albanian : bashki or bashkitë ) are the second-level administrative divisions of Albania , below the counties and above the communes . Since the most recent administrative reforms in 2014, Albania has 61 municipalities. Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. Since its Declaration of Independence from
12-469: The Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized internal administration 21 times. From independence until the year 2000, regional government was organized into regions ( rrethë ) of varing numbers, size, and importance. They were consolidated into groups comprising 12 counties in 1991. Following the 1998 constitutional reforms , the 36 regions of the time were abolished entirely and replaced by
16-463: The larger counties and two kinds of municipalities: urban municipalities ( bashki ) and rural ones ( komuna ). In 2014, this was revised to reduce the number of urban municipalities to 61 and extended their jurisdiction over the surrounding countryside to create regional administrations, while using the communes —renamed administrative units ( njësite administrative )—as a third-level division for local government . This first took effect in
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