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Rrajcë is a village and a former municipality in Elbasan County, in eastern Albania. As of the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality of Prrenjas. The population at the 2019 census was 12,121. The subdivision consists of seven villages: Rrajcë Fushë, Sutaj, Skenderbe, Skenderbe Bardhaj, Urakë, Katjel, and Kotodesh. The village of Rrajcë is found within the boundaries of Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park. The nearby forest was declared part of UNESCO's transnational natural site, The Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Eu

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mu
Settlement AL.official_name
Rrajcë
Settlement AL.county
Elbasan
Settlement AL.municipality
Prrenjas
Settlement AL.population_as_of
2019
Settlement AL.population_unit
12,121
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Country
Albania
Located in
Elbasan County
Elevation
690
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Image
Rrajcë.jpg
Licence plate code
LB
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Commons category
Rrajcë
postal code
3405
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Rrajcë is a village and a former municipality in Elbasan County, in eastern Albania. As of the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality of Prrenjas. The population at the 2019 census was 12,121. The subdivision consists of seven villages: Rrajcë Fushë, Sutaj, Skenderbe, Skenderbe Bardhaj, Urakë, Katjel, and Kotodesh. The village of Rrajcë is found within the boundaries of Shebenik-Jabllanicë National Park. The nearby forest was declared part of UNESCO's transnational natural site, The Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.

== Demographics == In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village of Rrajcë was inhabited by 840 Albanian Muslims. Other villages in the modern day municipality were not included in those demographic statistics.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rrajcë” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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