Cities of Southern Europe (World)

Cities of Southern Europe (World) collects this atlas's city entities that sit within the Southern Europe subregion of the United Nations M49 standard, region code 039, a subregion also called Mediterranean Europe in everyday usage. The UN Statistics Division's M49 overview page assigns these places to Southern Europe: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Holy See, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom's dependent territory of Gibraltar. This group node anchors every atlas city already tied to one of those Southern European countries, from ancient capitals such as Rome and Athens to present day seats of government, so a reader can browse the region's urban settlements as one connected set instead of hunting country by country through the atlas's own country listing.