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

Northern Albania (Albanian: Shqipëria Veriore) is one of the three NUTS-2 Regions of Albania. 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.

It consists of the counties of Dibër, Durrës, Kukës, Lezhë and Shkodër. Their combined population is 991,093 as of the 2023 census.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19891,041,447—    
2001962,081−7.6%
2011831,498−13.6%
2023649,902−21.8%
Source:

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.

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Main Results of the Population and Housing Census 2023" (PDF). INSTAT.
  2. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  3. "NUTS of Albania" (PDF). INSTAT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
  4. 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)
  5. "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.
  6. "Census of Population and Housing". Institute of Statistics Albania.
  7. "Economy of Albania".

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