Northern Albania Explained

Official Name:Northern Albania
Native Name:Shqipëria Veriore
Settlement Type:Region
Subdivision Type:Country
Area Total Km2:10,829
Population Total:837,453
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:NUTS code
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Blank Name Sec2:HDI (2017)
Blank Info Sec2:0.771[1]
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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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. hdi.globaldatalab.org. en. 2018-09-13.
  2. Web site: NUTS of Albania. INSTAT. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035535/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/204367/gdp_by_statistical_regions_level_2__3_year__2011.pdf. 2015-09-24.
  3. Book: Jaroslav Krej cí. Vitězslav Velímský. Ethnic And Political Nations In Europe. 13 July 2013. 1981. Taylor & Francis. 978-0-85664-988-2. 205. ...the Ghegs in the north (Ghegeria) and the Tosks in the south (Toskeria).
  4. Web site: Instituti i Statistikës (INSTAT) . A new Urban–Rural Classification of Albanian Population . 28 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191114101641/https://www.instat.gov.al/media/2919/a_new_urban-rural_classification_of_albanian_population.pdf . 14 November 2019 . 15 . May 2014.
  5. Web site: Economy of Albania.