Albert County (2016 population 29,158)[1] is New Brunswick's third-youngest county, located on the Western side of the Petitcodiac River on the Chignecto Bay in the Bay of Fundy; the shire town is Hopewell Cape.

[2] Since the abolition of county municipal governments in 1967, its best-known use is as a census division.

The mineral albertite was discovered a few miles away in 1849, giving rise to Albert Mines.

[3] There are four municipalities within Albert County (listed by 2016 population):[4] The county's six parishes serve as rural census subdivisions, which do not include the municipalities within them (listed by 2016 population):[4] As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Albert County had a population of 30,749 living in 12,913 of its 13,476 total private dwellings, a change of 5.5% from its 2016 population of 29,158.

[6] Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:[9]