Herzegovina

Herzegovina is the southern and smaller of two main regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, other being Bosnia. It never had strictly defined geographical or cultural-historical borders, nor has it ever been defined as an administrative whole in the geopolitical and economic subdivision of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The larger of two Bosnia and Herzegovina regions, Bosnia, is to the west and north of Herzegovina, while Croatian region Dalmatia is to the south-southwest, and Montenegro is to the east-southeast. The land area is c. 11,500 km2 , or around 23% of the total area of the present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, to c. 12,300 km2 , or around 24% of the country. The largest city is Mostar, in the center of the region. Other larger towns include Trebinje, Stolac, Široki Brijeg, Posušje, Ljubuški, Grude, Konjic, and Čapljina. The name Herzegovina itself stems from the archaic Serbo-Croatian term borrowed from German, hercegovina, a land ruled by a Herzog thus literally meaning 'duchy' or 'dukedom'.

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