Northern Albania

Northern Albania
Shqipëria Veriore
Region
Country Albania
Area
 • Total10,829 km2 (4,181 sq mi)
Population
 • Total837,453
 • Density77/km2 (200/sq mi)
NUTS codeAL01
HDI (2017)0.771[1]
high · 3rd of 3
Northern Albania is in red.

Northern Albania (Albanian: Shqipëria Veriore) is one of the three NUTS-2 Regions of Albania.[2] This ethnographical territory is sometimes referred to as Ghegeria (Albanian: Gegëria) which also includes parts of the Albanian-inhabited territories of Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.[3]

It consists of the counties of Dibër, Durrës, Kukës, Lezhë and Shkodër.[4]

The northeastern mountain regions have substantial reserves of metallic mineral deposits, including chromium, copper, and iron-nickel. In the 1980s Albania was a world leader in chromium production, but output fell precipitously in the early 1990s during the political transition from communism.[5]

The term usually denotes to the northern half of the country inhabited by the Ghegs, who predominantly live in the mountainous north of the Shkumbin river.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  2. ^ "NUTS of Albania" (PDF). INSTAT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
  3. ^ Jaroslav Krej cí; Vitězslav Velímský (1981). Ethnic And Political Nations In Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-85664-988-2. Retrieved 13 July 2013. ...the Ghegs in the north (Ghegeria) and the Tosks in the south (Toskeria)
  4. ^ "A new Urban–Rural Classification of Albanian Population" (PDF). Instituti i Statistikës (INSTAT). May 2014. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Economy of Albania".

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