The District of Lezhë (Albanian: Rrethi i Lezhës) is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It has a population of 68,000 (2004 estimate), and an area of 479 km². It is in the north-west of the country, and its capital is Lezhë. Other places in this district include Shëngjin .

Lezha is located on the north of Albania and it’s a region with a history of thousands of years. In Lezhe Beslidhja e Lezhes was created under the order of Gjergj Kastriotit-Skenderbeu it was created not only to unite the regions of Albania but it was this international hero that managed to protect the catholic religion from definitive threats. The pope himself at that time considered him as the savior of Christianity, whereas the king of Italy awarded entire regions of the south of Italy for his reward of not only saving Christianity but also Italy from the invasion of the Turks.

Lezha has brought up very smart people from Frang Bardhi up to Gjergj Fishta and even more these days. God has given Lezha three natural beauties; Therefore Lezha has the highest of the mountains where the mountain of vela is forever proud along with the mountainous area of Kashnjeti or Malsise of lezha up to Rubik where the fields lush same as the fields of Lezhe-Shkoder (Zadrime,Kallmeti, torovice) and the fields of Lezhe-Mat (Manati, Spiten, Zejmen, Tale, etc) . The Adriatic ocean hits the shore of lezha with waves that start at the shengjin (shnin) Harbor one of the three largest harbors of Albania and up to Tale to dredhja e lumit Mat and it passes through lezha and pours in the Adriatic and in the largest river in Albania called Lumi drin..

From www.lezhe.net [1]