Malsori Island (Ishulli i Malësorit in

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) is an island in the north of

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, in the

Bojana river The Bojana ( cnr, Бојана), also known as the Buna ( sq, Bunë), is a river in Albania and Montenegro which flows into the Adriatic Sea. An outflow of Lake Skadar, measured from the source of the lake's longest tributary, the Morača, t ...

Name

In the

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''Malësor'' (''Malsor'' in the north dialect) means ''Highlander'', so Malësori island means "The Highlander Island."

Geography

Malësori island is located in the Buna river, in the Dajç municipal unit,

Shkodër County Shkodër County ( sq, Qarku i Shkodrës) is a county in northwestern Albania, with the capital in Shkodër. The county spans and had a total population of 197,177 people as of 2021. The county borders on the counties of Lezhë, Kukës and the cou ...

, and it has an area of around 40 hectares or 0.4 square km. that makes it the third biggest island in Albania. Around the island are some villages, the nearest of which is

Darragjat Darragjat is a Human settlement, settlement in the former Dajç, Shkodër, Dajç municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Shkodër. Around the village crosses the Buna ( ...

, and is less than 5 kilometers from

Skadar Lake Lake Skadar ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Скадарско језеро, Skadarsko jezero, ; sq, Liqeni i Shkodrës, ) also called Lake Scutari, Lake Shkodër and Lake Shkodra lies on the border of Albania and Montenegro, and is the largest lake in Southern ...

Demography

Malësori Island has no civil population, like other islands in

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