The Mediterranean Sea is sub-divided into a number of smaller seas, each with their own designation (from west to east):

• the Alboran Sea, between Spain and Morocco,

• the Balearic Sea, between mainland Spain and its Balearic Islands,

• the Ligurian Sea between Corsica and Liguria (Italy),

• the Tyrrhenian Sea enclosed by Sardinia, Italian peninsula and Sicily,

• the Adriatic Sea between the Italian peninsula and the coasts of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania

• the Ionian Sea between Italy, Greece, and Albania,

• the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey