[3] 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.

[1]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.

[7] 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.