A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus.
[Latin paenīnsula : paene, almost + īnsula, island.]
peninsular pen·in'su·lar adj.
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A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is connected with the mainland by an isthmus.
[Latin paenīnsula : paene, almost + īnsula, island.]
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A piece of land jutting into, and almost surrounded by, the sea.
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A peninsula (Latin "paenīnsula", "paene-": almost + "īnsula": island) is a piece of land that is surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus.
A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[1]. Note that a point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape.[2]
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The Balkans is a peninsula including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
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Encompassing present-day Sweden, Norway, and part of Finland
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The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Japan (known as the East Sea in South Korea) on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.
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Florida is a well-known example of a large peninsula, with its land area divided between the larger Florida peninsula and the smaller Florida panhandle on the north and west. It has several smaller peninsulas within it:
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Michigan is very distinguishable for its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan which includes:
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The northern half of Michigan is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contains:
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Nederlands (Dutch)
schiereiland
Français (French)
n. - péninsule
Deutsch (German)
n. - Halbinsel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (γεωγρ.) χερσόνησος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - península (f)
Español (Spanish)
n. - península
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
半岛
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 半島
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) شبه جزيرة
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