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The term southern Europe, at different times, has had different
meanings, providing additional political, linguistic and
cultural context to the definition in addition to the typical
geographical, phytogeographic or climatic approach. Most coastal
countries in the United Nations-designated southern Europe
border the Mediterranean Sea. Exceptions are Portugal which has
only Atlantic coastline, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia,
which are landlocked, and Bulgaria and Romania, which border the
Black Sea.  Geographical definition[edit]  European sub-regions
according to EuroVoc (the thesaurus of the European Union).
Southern Europe is marked yellow on this map.  Geographically,
southern Europe is the southern half of the landmass of Europe.
This definition is relative, with no clear limits.  Countries
geographically considered part of southern Europe include:
Iberian Peninsula (SW Euro