Second stop: the North after independence
Leaving Podgorica heading north one enters a rather different world. A majority of the Orthodox population here sees itself as ethnically Serb, not Montenegrin.
About a third of the total population of Montenegro - slightly less than 200,000 - live in the North. However, the North contributes only 18 percent to Montenegrin GDP (down from 25.5 percent in 1990). In May 2007 a newspaper found that the budget of the coastal municipality of Budva with only 16,000 inhabitants (EUR 44 million) was higher than the budgets of all 11 Northern municipalities taken together (EUR 42.5 million).
Region |
Share of population |
Share of GDP |
population below poverty line |
North |
31.5 % |
18.0 % |
14.9 % |
Central |
45.1 |
55.5 % |
6.5 % |
South |
23.4 % |
26.5 % |
6.8 % |
Source: UN Human Development Report 2005
Post-modern Nation - Montenegro one year after independence
- Fault line of civilisations?
- Tribal reputation
- Facing the past
- The threat of civil war
- Cold war with Serbia (1997-2000)
- Fears of war
- Building institutions
- A short history of "Solania"
- Independence
- First stop: Europe's youngest capital
- Podgorica – centre of national politics
- Near Podgorica: KAP and FDI
- Second stop: the North after independence
- Tribes and clans
- Wild beauty
- "Little Montenegro"
- Northern politics in 2007
- Third Stop: the Adriatic Coast
- Multiethnic Bar
- Catholics and Orthodox in Sutomore
- Kotor between East and West
- Montenegro's economic motor: Tourism
- Into the mountains – the end of Empire
- Fourth stop: Cetinje
- Symbols of statehood
- The fight over orthodoxy
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