Montenegrin women live in Montenegro, a country in southeastern Europe: a region commonly known as the Balkans.

[3] An early description of women from Montenegro comes from a column of The New York Times on November 5, 1880, wherein the newspaper said that "The Montenegrin woman takes an equal share of labor with the man at field-work, and she does all the carrying" in relation to travel by horse ride and other forms of transport by animals.

[4] Among the tallest people in the world, the average height of women in Montenegro is at 171 centimetres (67 in).

[3] A report from the World Bank shows that the fertility rate (total births per woman) in Montenegro had been declining from 2002 to 2010.

[citation needed] The English historian Denis Mack Smith described Elena of Montenegro, particularly as Italy's queen, as the most influential Montenegrin woman in history; Elena of Montenegro was able to convince her husband Victor Emmanuel III, who was during her time the King of Italy, to impose on Benito Mussolini the creation of an independent Montenegro, against the wishes of the fascist Croats and Albanians (who wanted to enlarge their countries with the Montenegrin territories).