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The Albanians in Germany (German: Albaner in Deutschland; Albanian: Shqiptarët në Gjermani) refers to the Albanian migrants in Germany and their descendants. They mostly trace their origins to Albania, Kosovo and to a lesser extent to North Macedonia and other Albanian-speaking territories in the Balkan Peninsula. Their exact number is difficult to determine as some ethnic Albanians hold German, Macedonian, Serbian or another Former Yugoslavian citizenship.
As of 2020, there are approximately 316,760 Albanians distributed in the territory of Germany composed of 242,855 Kosovar nationals and 73,905 Albanian nationals, making them one of the largest immigrant groups in the country and the third largest non-EU foreign national group after Turkish and Syrian nationals.[1] Other estimates have placed the number of Albanians in Germany as high as 471,000.[2] They are predominantly concentrated in the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Niedersachsen.[3] Berlin, Hamburg, München and Stuttgart represent the metropolitan areas with the most significant Albanian population in the country.
Germany maintains close ties with Albania and Kosovo which are characterised by a spirit of economic and political partnership.[4][5] Relations with Albania have become more significantly after the collapse of communism in 1991 as the country paved the way of a democratisation process. Germany was also one of the first countries to officially recognise and establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo after it declared its independence in 2008.[6]
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^"Bevölkerung und Erwerbstätigkeit - Ausländische Bevölkerung Ergebnisse des Ausländerzentralregisters 2018" (PDF). destatis.de (in German). Statistisches Bundesamt (DESTATIS). pp. 97–99. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
^"Germany and Albania: Bilateral Relations". auswaertiges-amt.de (in German). Federal Foreign Office.
^"Germany and Kosovo: Bilateral Relations". auswaertiges-amt.de (in German). Federal Foreign Office.
^Germany recognises Kosovo Archived 19 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, German Federal Government, 2008-02-20
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Germany 316,700 (2020)[1]