Kuçovë (Kuçova) is an Albanian city, capital of the Kuçovë District, with many parks and museums.

Archaeologists found in the village of Katundas near Kuçovë six phases of inhabitation dating to the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, urban Illyrian and the Late Antiquity era.

Kuçova has been an industrial city since the Italian influence in the early 1920s. In 1928 in “Dikater” was drilled the first oil hole in Albania. From this moment onwards the city has been on oil drilling maps. Since 1928 until 1943, the Italian company AIPA had an agreement with the Zog I government that if the oil extraction would surpass 50 000 tonnes per year, this company would build a refinery in Albania. Even though the oil extracted wss more than 170 000 tonnes, The refinery was never built and the oil was transported to Italy.

During Communist Albania the city was renamed to Stalin City (Albanian: Qyteti Stalin) and was a closed military district. The city was extensively developed in the 1950s and is of interest to students of communist architecture, although following the collapse of communism there has been much unauthorised building and modification to the original buildings. It is home of one of Albania's Military Aeronautical Base, although since 2005 the country's air force has ceased flying the aged Mig fighters provided by the Soviet Union and China and has been reduced to rotary wing aircraft only.