Central Serbia , also referred to as Serbia proper , is the part of Serbia lying outside of the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo (AP Kosovo and Metohija); Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008. Central Serbia is a term of convenience, not an administrative division of Serbia as such, and does not have any form of separate administration. Until 2009, it was a statistical region; with the formation of new statistical regions of Serbia in 2009–2010, it was transformed into three new regions: Region of Belgrade, Region of South and East Serbia, and Region of Šumadija and Western Serbia.