The Myzeqe is the broad alluvial plain between the lower Shkumbin and Seman rivers — flat, fertile, and famously the heartland of Albanian agriculture. The plain produces a large share of the country's wheat, sunflowers, tomatoes, and watermelons, and the roads radiating out from Lushnjë cross mile after mile of cultivated fields.
Historically the Myzeqe was malarial swamp; large-scale drainage in the 1930s and again under the communists turned it into productive land. The villages across the plain still carry a strong identity — there is a distinct Myzeqar dialect and dress — and a slow drive across the plain in spring, when the fields are green and the storks are nesting, is a pleasant detour off the main roads.