Editing Mediterranean Sea (section)

===Coastal countries===
{{Main list|List of Mediterranean countries}}
[[File:Area of the Mediterranean.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Map of the Mediterranean Sea from open Natural Earth data, 2020]]

The following countries have a coastline on the Mediterranean Sea:
* '''Northern shore''' (from west to east): [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Monaco]], [[Italy]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Montenegro]], [[Albania]], [[Greece]], [[Turkey]].
* '''Eastern shore''' (from north to south): [[Turkey]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], [[Palestine]], [[Egypt]].
* '''Southern shore''' (from west to east): [[Morocco]], [[Algeria]], [[Tunisia]], [[Libya]], [[Egypt]].
* '''Island nations''': [[Malta]], [[Cyprus]].

Several other territories also border the Mediterranean Sea (from west to east):
* the [[British overseas territory]] of [[Gibraltar]]
* the Spanish autonomous cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] and [[plazas de soberanía|nearby islands]]
* the [[Sovereign Base Areas]] on Cyprus
* the Palestinian [[Gaza Strip]]