Southern Europe is a region of Europe. It is also known as Mediterranean Europe, after the bordering sea, the Mediterranean Sea.

It has no precise definition but is generally taken to consist of:

• The Iberian peninsula
  • Spain
  • Portugal
  • Andorra
• France
  • Southern France (the French Riviera)
  • Monaco
• The Italian peninsula
  • Southern Italy
  • Vatican City
  • San Marino
• The Balkans (its coastal countries)
  • Albania
  • Serbia and Montenegro
  • Croatia
  • Greece
  • the European part of Turkey
• Mediterranean States
  • Malta
  • Cyprus

Cyprus is not geographically a part of Europe but is frequently called a European country in a political and cultural sense. The same is true for Turkey, although to a lesser extent, but the Turkish often consider themselves Europeans.