BASIC INFORMATION

Core identification information for the metadata record
Geographical Names 2018
Albania (ALB)

Geographical names consist of three groups of geospatial data. Geographical names of relief (toponymy), hydrography, and villages/cities. Geographical names for relief and hydrography are derived from the digitalization of topographic maps of scale 1:25000. Geographical names of villages and cities are taken from the administrative-territorial divisions with Law 115/2014 "On the administrative-territorial division of local government units in the Republic of Albania". The data are in conformity with the standard with the Council of Ministers No. 142, dated 22.02.2017, On the approval of the document "State Standards for Technical Specifications of Geospatial Information in Albania - Topic: Geographical names".

CCD
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GRAPHIC OVERVIEW

Visual representation of the resource
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CLASSIFICATION AND KEYWORDS

Categorization and keyword information
location
location category
City Field Geographical names Lake Mountain Names Peak Relief River Stream Toponyms Valley Village

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Geographic extent and bounding box
KRGJSH

TEMPORAL INFORMATION

Temporal coverage and dates
Available data
July 23, 2018
Jan. 1, 2017
Jan. 31, 2023

QUALITY AND CONFORMANCE

Data quality and standards conformance

The geographical names of villages and cities are taken from the administrative-territorial divisions by Law 115/2014 "On the administrative-territorial division of local government units in the Republic of Albania"

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ISO 19139
Conformant

ACCESS AND DISTRIBUTION

Access constraints and distribution information

copyright

No obstacles for public use

Not specified

CONTACT INFORMATION

Responsible parties and contact details
State Authority for Geospatial Information (ASIG)
Publisher
Email: info@asig.gov.al
Website: https://asig.gov.al
State Authority for Geospatial Information (ASIG)
Publisher
Email: info@asig.gov.al
Website: https://asig.gov.al

METADATA DETAILS

Information about this metadata record
Eng
Oct. 20, 2025
AL_ASIG_EMERTIME_2018