ALBIA, a city of Iowa, U.S.A., 68m. S.E. of Des Moines, in a fertile farming and stock-raising district and in the Albia coal-field; the county-seat of Monroe county. It is a junction point of the Burlington, the Wabash, and the Minneapolis and St. Louis railways, and is the northern terminus of the Iowa Southern Utilities Company. It has several industrial plants, and is an important distributing centre for the coal and agricultural products of the region. The population in g2o was 5,067; in 1930, 4,425.