The blue countries on the map below are part of what region of Europe?
Political map of Europe with the southern countries shaded blue. Two of the attached countries are the farthest southwest. One is shaped like a boot. Two are to the southeast of the boot tip, and some are islands that fall between the ones farthest southwest and the one shaped like a boot.
a) Mediterranean Europe
b) Coastal Europe
c) Western Europe
d) Eastern Europe