Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan rikice-rikicen soja a 1991<unk>1992 da 2008
, Georgia tana ɗaukar tsohuwar yankin mulkin mallaka na Ossetia ta Kudu a matsayin yankin da aka mamaye. Matsayinta ba a bayyana shi da kundin tsarin mulki ba, amma akwai Gwamnatin Kudancin Ossetia da ke zaune a gudun hijira a Tbilisi. Yankin da ke ƙarƙashin ikon Georgia kafin Yaƙin Russo-Georgian na 2008, an tsara shi cikin birni huɗu, waɗanda ke riƙe da matsayin "de jure". Gwamnatin Ossetia ta Kudu ta raba yankin yankin zuwa gundumomi hudu ("raion").