Northern Albania

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]

Northern Albania Shqipëria Veriore
Region
Country	Albania
Area
• Total	10,829 km2 (4,181 sq mi)
Population
• Total	837,453
• Density	77/km2 (200/sq mi)
NUTS code	AL01
HDI (2017)	0.771[1] high · 3rd of 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]}