Its capital was Sarajevo and it included portions of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

It was named after the Drina River and, like all Yugoslav banovinas, was intentionally not based on ethnic boundaries.

[citation needed] As a result of the creation of the Banovina of Croatia in 1939, its territory was reduced considerably.

[1] In 1941, the World War II Axis Powers occupied the Drina Banovina and the province was abolished and divided between the Independent State of Croatia and German-occupied Serbia.

Following World War II, the region was divided between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia within a federal Socialist Yugoslavia.