Shishtavec is a village in Kukës County in northeastern Albania. It was also the seat of the former municipality of the same name. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kukës. The administrative unit of Shishtavec contains the villages Borje, Oreshkë, Cërnalevë and Shishtavec which are populated by the Muslim Slavic-speaking Gorani people, whereas the villages of Novosej, Kollovoz and Shtrezë are inhabited by Albanians. According to the 2011 census, 68.3% of the municipality identified ethnically as Albanian, while 7.7% identified as Macedonian. The remainder did not declare an ethnicity.

Village of Shishtavec

The village of Shishtavec consists of around 300 households with over 1,800 Gorani inhabitants. The area is part of the wider Gora region, most of it lies on the other side of the border in Kosovo. Roughly 250 acres of potatoes are planted annually in Shishtavec.