Subregion · part of Europe
Southern Europe
Country-by-country guide to Southern Europe: capitals, flags, borders, area, and population for every nation in this UN subregion of Europe.
10 countries
131,572,221 people
1,041,510 km² total land area
Southern Europe wraps the northern Mediterranean coast — Iberia, Italy, the Balkans, and Greece — with a climate of hot dry summers and mild wet winters. The subregion has shaped global cuisine, art, and shipping for millennia and remains a top tourist destination.
Use this page as an entry point into the subregion. Skim the table below for an at-a-glance comparison, then click any country to read the full editorial profile — capital, flag, official languages, currencies, bordering states, an embedded OpenStreetMap viewport, and links to high-resolution map services.
| 88,406 | |
| 1,442,614 | |
| 38,000 | |
| 10,400,720 | |
| 58,927,633 | |
| 574,250 | |
| 10,749,635 | |
| 34,132 | |
| 49,315,949 | |
| 882 |
