peninsula

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(pə-nĭn'syə-lə, -sə-lə) pronunciation
n. (Abbr. Pen.)
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.


is a noun meaning 'a piece of land almost surrounded by water' (The Spanish peninsula) and peninsular is the corresponding adjective (The Peninsular War).

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A piece of land jutting into, and almost surrounded by, the sea.

A body of land enclosed on three sides by water, jutting out from a larger body of land.

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IN BRIEF: adj. - Of or forming or resembling a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

pronunciation Its peninsular coast provided the place with long, sandy beaches which are frequented by tourists.

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The Arabian Peninsula is the world's largest peninsula by area.

A peninsula (Latin: paenīnsula, "paene-": almost + "īnsula": island; also called a byland or biland) is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic, Hungarian and Chinese, peninsulas are called "half-islands". A peninsula can also be a headland (head), 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] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae.

Oceania

Australia

A beach on the Mornington Peninsula
Looking north over the Kurnell Peninsula.

Papua New Guinea

New Zealand

Europe

  • Europe is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula extending off Eurasia. It is composed of many peninsulas, the four main component peninsulas being the Iberian, Scandinavian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas.

Balkan Peninsula

The Balkans is a peninsula including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.

Denmark


Iberian Peninsula

Satellite view of the Iberian Peninsula

Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra, British overseas territory of Gibraltar and a small amount of southern France.

Ireland

Italy

Satellite view of the famous boot shaped Italian Peninsula

Russia

Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea

Scandinavian Peninsula

Encompassing present-day Sweden, Norway, and part of Finland.

Turkey

United Kingdom

  • During the great Ice Ages, all of Great Britain was a peninsula, extending north west from the mainland of Europe/France. The English Channel did not exist at that time.

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland


Other countries in Europe

A small peninsula in Croatia
Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland

Asia

China

Eastern Mediterranean

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

Indonesia

Japan

Kyūshū

Honshū

Hokkaido

Kazakhstan

Korea

Korean Peninsula.

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Dong Hae (aka. Sea of Japan) on the east, the Nam Hae (aka. East China Sea) to the south, and the Hwang Hae (aka. Yellow Sea) to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.

Malaysia

Persian Gulf

South East Asia

Philippines

Vietnam

North America

Canada

Greenland

Mexico

The Yucatán peninsula

United States

Alaska

California

Florida

The Floridian Peninsula, shown by a NASA satellite image.

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:

Michigan

The large Michigan Peninsulas from space, showing both the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula.

Michigan is very distinguishable for its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan which includes:

The northern third of Michigan is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contains:

New Jersey

New York

Utah

  • Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake
  • Promentory Peninsula, on the north eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake
  • Stansbury Peninsula, becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

Virginia

Other states

Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts

South America

Other countries in South America

Caribbean

Africa

Antarctica

References

External links

The Wiktionary entry for byland
Media related to Peninsulas at Wikimedia Commons


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Common misspelling(s) of peninsula

  • penninsula
  • penninsular
  • penisular
  • penisula
  • pennisula

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - halvø

Nederlands (Dutch)
schiereiland

Français (French)
n. - péninsule

Deutsch (German)
n. - Halbinsel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (γεωγρ.) χερσόνησος

Italiano (Italian)
penisola

Português (Portuguese)
n. - península (f)

Русский (Russian)
полуостров

Español (Spanish)
n. - península

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - halvö

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
半岛

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 半島

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반도

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 半島

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شبه جزيرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חצי-אי‬


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Scandinavian Peninsula (peninsula of northern Europe)
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