A Gulf is a place where the sea sticks into the land. A peninsula is where the land sticks out into the sea.
See, for example, the Gulf of Mexico and the Yucatan PENINSULA.
Peninsula - Latin paene (nearly) insula (island). Connected to the mainland by a thin strip of land called an ISTHMUS.
The Arabian Peninsula.
The Sinai Peninsula
A gulf is the water mass that is surrounded by land on three sides, while a peninsula is a land mass that sticks out into the ocean, so is almost completely surrounded by water.
A gulf is the water mass that is surrounded by land on three sides, while a peninsula is a land mass that sticks out into the ocean, so is almost completely surrounded by water.
a bay is similar to a gulf. a peninsula is an outcropping of land in the water
The peninsula to the east of the Suez canal is called SINAI.
The Arabian peninsula is a peninsula located between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
Arabian peninsula
Gulf of Carpentaria
A gulf is a portion of ocean or sea partly enclosed by land. A Peninsula is an area of land almost completely surrounded by water
That is the Arabian Peninsula.
St Vincent's Gulf, also known as Gulf St Vincent, is on the South Australian coast. It lies between the Fleurieu Peninsula and Yorke Peninsula (Yorke Peninsula has nothing to do with Cape York Peninsula in the north).