Southern Albania

Southern Albania (Albanian: Shqipëria jugore) is one of the three NUTS-2 Regions of Albania.[2] It consists of five counties: Berat, Fier, Gjirokastër, Korçë and Vlorë.

Southern Albania Shqipëria jugore
Region
Country	Albania
Area
• Total	12,989 km^2 (5,015 sq mi)
Population
• Total	920,448
• Density	71/km^2 (180/sq mi)
NUTS code	AL03
HDI (2017)	0.759[1] high · 2nd of 3

Southern Albania is in blue.

This ethnographical territory is sometimes referred to as Toskeria (Albanian: Toskëria).[3]

In Greece, a small part of the region, the Southern-most area near the Greek border, is commonly called Northern Epirus.[4][5]

See also

• Northern Albania (Ghegeria or Gegeria)
• Central Albania
• Southern Albanian Highlands

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
2. "NUTS of Albania" (PDF). INSTAT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
3. 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)
4. Southern Albania. Southern Albania, 1912-1923. Stanford University Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6171-0.
5. Edith Pierpont Stickney (1926). Southern Albania Or. Northern Epirus in European International Affairs: 1912-1923. Stanford University Press.