and sits in the corner. But then about 10 years later at the reunion, you find out that

情緒搖滾佬

they actually have a lot of friends and are actually pretty cool. That's kind of like what Albania is.

坐在角落裡自閉

It's time to learn geography - NOW!!!

但10年後

Now, you know the drill. Before anything, let's dissect that flag.

在重逢時你發現

As you can see, the Albanian flag is actually pretty simple.

其實他有很多朋友

It's just a red banner with a double-headed eagle emblem on top of it.

他也很酷

The red represents bravery and courage, and the double-headed eagle is an emblem that

這有點兒像阿爾巴尼亞

the Albanians have claimed that they have used to historically identify themelves as a people group.

音樂:)

Even though there may be some other countries that would argue otherwise.

任何事前, 你知道會怎樣

Political Geography

讓我們來解剖國旗

In terms of its political geography, Albania is located in the south Balkan region,

你瞧瞧, 阿爾巴尼亞的國旗

right north of Greece, south of Montenegro, west of Macedonia and Kosovo, even though Serbia

非常簡單

will tell you that Kosovo is totally no Kosovo - it's just part of Serbia.

那只不過是紅色橫幅

But we'll discuss that in another video.

與它頂部的一個雙頭鷹徽

And off the coast are the Ionian and Adriatic Seas.

紅色代表勇敢和勇氣

Now when it comes to Albania's borders, it almost kind of looks like every single country surrounding Albania

雙頭鷹側是一個標誌

is trying to take as much coastline away as they can from Albania.

阿爾巴尼亞人聲稱他們在歷史上使用

In the south, Greece is like, meh, I'm just going to take these extra 10 miles of beach.

以識別自己作為一個種族

In the north, Montenegro's like, meh, I'm just going to take the entire Buna river.

儘管有些國家會爭辯

And even inland, Macedonia's like, meh, I'm just going to take the majority of the Prespa and Ohrid lakes.

在政治地理方面

And also access to those lakes.

阿爾巴尼亞位於南巴爾幹地區

Albania doesn't really get that much regard.

希臘北部，黑山南部

Now unlike many of its neighbours that border the Meditteranean, Albania doesn't really have many islands

馬其頓和科索沃西部。

that border its coastline. In fact, there are only 7 to 10ish islands, most of which are small, uninhabited or barely inhabited

(儘管塞爾維亞會告訴你

like Tongo and Stillo Island in the south which each have only one house on them,

科索沃是只是塞爾維亞的一部分

and most of the other ones are barely even the size on an Ikea.

但是，我們將在另一視頻討論)

However, a lot of them do have a lot of cool, historical ancient sites and landmarks on them.

和在愛奧尼亞海和亞得里亞海海岸。

Such as Ali Pasha Castle on Butrint, and the 13th century monastery on Zvërnec Island.

當談到阿爾巴尼亞的邊界

Except for one, Sazan Island.

看起來幾乎每一個環繞阿爾巴尼亞國家

Sazan island has actually played a very crucial role in Albania's history.

就會試圖佔用盡可能多的海岸線

It was taken over by the Romans, the Byzantines and the Ottomans, and the Greeks, and the Italians, and the British, and the Greeks,

就會試圖佔用盡可能多的海岸線

but the Greeks didn't want it again so they gave it to the Italians, and then the Italians finally gave it to Albania.

在南方，希臘就像是，“呃我只是要取

It's a long story.

這10英里海灘."

To this day, Sazan Island is the only somewhat inhabited island as the people living there

在北方，黑山就像，“呃我只是要取

are only there to maintain the former military bases that were built.

整個布納河“

In terms of its physical geography, Albania is about 70% mountainous with about 25% of the land being arable for agriculture and farming

甚至內陸，馬其頓就像，“呃我只是要

Which by the way, is a sector that employs almost half of the entire population of Albania.

取大部分普雷斯帕和奧赫里德湖。

Albanians take their agriculture very seriously.

並進入這些湖“。

In fact, for a while, they were completely closed off from the rest of the world and self-reliant.

阿爾巴尼亞並沒有真正得到多少尊重。

In addition to fruits and vegetables and other produce, one thing that Albanians really like to grow:

與許多地中海鄰國不一樣

Tobacco.

阿爾巴尼亞其實沒有許多島嶼

They do, I think. They just do.

阿爾巴尼亞其實沒有許多島嶼

Now Albania is also loaded with a bunch of other types of landscapes, like

其實大約只有七到十個小島

rolling green hills, and lush forests, and very nice warm temperate beaches.

其中大部分無人居住

Such as the ones at Ksamil and Durrës.

或很少有人居住。像南部的通戈和斯蒂爾島。

Speaking of which, interesting factoid.

其中每個只有一家房子。

If you go to Albania, pretty much everywhere around the entire country you'll notice these WWII concrete war bunkers located everywhere

大多數基本上都是

The reason being, because in the middle of the 20th century, the old communist leader Enver Hoxha

宜家的大小。

took over and built these war bunkers, about 700,000 of them and placed them all over the country

然而，他們很多確實有很酷的

as a means for militaristic preparation.

古遺址和標誌性建築在他們身上。

Now, of course, that costed the country a lot of money that they pretty much didn't have

比如，阿里總督城堡在布特林特之上，

and it was a poor investment because they never really needed them.

和第十三世紀的修道院在

However, to this day it's almost like a little I-Spy game.

Zvërnec島之上。

When you go to Albania, see how many bunkers you can find.

除了一個！

Demographics

薩贊島。

Now in terms of its demographics, about 85%, the vast majority of people in Albania identify as ethnically Albanian.

薩贊島在實際上對阿爾巴尼亞的歷史

Now there are some minorities like Greeks, and Macedonians and Montenegrans as well.

起到了非常關鍵的作用

The vast majority of people in Albania also speak the Albanian language,

它被羅馬接管，然後是拜占庭，

which is one of the most distinguishable facets of this country.

奧特曼，希臘

The Albanian language, to this day, relates to no other Indo-European language branch in the world.

與意大利, 英國

It stand alone as its own, and is a very unique language.

希臘，但希臘沒想要它，

Albania also has a very interesting faith-based background.

所以他們給了意大利。

About 60% of the people identify as non-denominational or secular Muslim,

然後意大利終於把它給了阿爾巴尼亞。

and about 20% identify as Christian, mostly Catholic or Orthodox.

說來話長...

Although historically, Albania at one point banned all religious freedom

薩贊島是唯一有人居住的

and was declared the very first atheist state in the entire world during the Communist regime until 1992

島，生活在那裡的人都只有在那裡

Interesting sidenote: in Albania, they shake their head to say yes,

維持軍事基地。

and they nod their head to say no.

自然地理而言，

The Friend-Zone.

阿爾巴尼亞將近七成（70％）是山區，

This is where things get a little interesting because historically Albania has probably been

陸地大約百分之二十五（25％）

one of THE most socially awkward countries in the world.

合適耕地農業和養殖。

Shortly after Albania was relinquished from the Ottoman Empire,

農業員工佔阿爾巴尼亞的全部人口大約一半

Albania went through a few decades of not exactly quite knowing how to be Albania again.

大約一半

And that's when the Soviets came in.

阿爾巴尼亞非常重視他們的農業。

For a while, Albania was part of the Soviet Bloc. However, during the Sino-Soviet split,

事實上，一段時間，它們完全從世界

(which is something we'll discuss in another video),

封閉，自力更生。

Albania actually decided to side with China, and not Russia, which strategically,

除了水果和蔬菜等農產品，

may have been a bad decision.

一件事是阿爾巴尼亞真正喜歡

The reason being, because that made China Albania's only ally in the world.

煙草。

And it can get kind of hard when your only ally in the world isn't even close to you geographically.

他們，他們真的很喜歡

And to add to that, in the 70s, China was kind of like:

現在，阿爾巴尼亞還有一堆其他類型的

Look, Albania, it was cute how you wanted to tag along, but you're on your own.

景觀，像起伏的綠色山丘，

And then Albania had no allies.

和茂密的森林，而且非常漂亮的

In the last few years of Communism and following the death of Enver Hoxha,

海灘。

Albania saw what was going on and thought, yeah, we kind of need to turn things around.

如在Ksamil和拉斯的海灘。

Finally, in 1990, the Communist regime ended, making Albania a constitutional republic.

說到這，

This opened up a lot of doors.

有趣的事實，如果你去阿爾巴尼亞，

From the 90s, up until today, Albania has become one of the most social countries in the world,

在全國各地，

opening up its arms, trying to gain as many diplomatic relations as it can with as many countries as it can.

你會發現這些字二戰戰爭的混凝土掩體，

To this day it has about 40 different embassies in 40 different countries.

無處不在。

Albania is not a social butterfly. Albania is a social pterodactyl.

原因是因為

They even named a street after Geroge W. Bush after he visited there one time in 2007.

二十世紀，老共產黨領導人，

Interesting sidenote: there's an early episode of the SImpsons in which Bart signs up for a foreign exchange student programme,

恩維爾·霍查，

and goes to France whereas the Simpson family receives an exchange student named Adil from Albania.

接手並建立這些

The episode was filmed in 1990, right before the fall of Communism in Albania.

戰爭掩體。約七十萬

It lightly portrays the tensions between America and Soviet-influenced nations at that time.

放在全國各地，

In terms of its best friend, Albania would probably consider Kosovo to be it,

作為軍國主義製備的裝置。

considering that the vast majority of people in Kosovo are Albanians.

現在當然，這成本很多

Gotta support your brothers.

他們幾乎沒有錢，這是一個糟糕的投資

In conclusion, Albania may have been that little reserved, quiet kid,

因為他們從來沒有真正需要他們。

and maybe they made a few bad decisions here and there historically.

然而到了今天，它幾乎像一個小'我是間諜'遊戲。

But they've really started to turn things around. And you gotta give them credit for that.

當您在阿爾巴尼亞，看你能找到多少掩體。

Stay tuned! Algeria is coming up next.

在其人口統計方面，