Southeast Europe
This concept is based on the boundaries of the Balkan peninsula. The countries that have been described as being entirely within the region are: Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Balkans
"Western Balkans" is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia less Slovenia since the early 1990s. The region of the "Western Balkan", a coinage exclusively used in Pan-European parlance, roughly corresponds to the Dinaric Alps territory.