peninsula

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A small peninsula in Croatia

Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea

Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts

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]

Oceania

Australia

A beach on the Mornington Peninsula

Looking north over the Kurnell Peninsula.

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

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

Italy

Satellite view of the famous boot shaped Italian Peninsula

• Italian Peninsula
• Calabria
• Penisola Salentina
• Promontorio del Gargano
• Sorrentine Peninsula
• Promontorio di Orbetello

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.

Scandinavian Peninsula

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

Turkey

• Anatolian Peninsula
• Armutlu Peninsula
• Datça Peninsula
• Dilek Peninsula
• Gallipoli Peninsula
• Karaburun Peninsula
• Thracian Peninsula

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

Republic of Ireland

Russia

Other countries in Europe

Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland

Asia

Kazakhstan

• Mangyshlak Peninsula

Eastern Mediterranean

Panoramic view of Beirut. View of Haifa from the west, the center of Israel's Second Largest Metropolitan Area Asia Minor Beirut, Lebanon El Mina, Lebanon Haifa, Israel Acre, Israel Kapidagi Yarimadasi, Turkey Datça Peninsula, Turkey Side Peninsula, Turkey

Persian Gulf

• Arabian Peninsula; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman
• Qatar
• Al-Faw peninsula, Iraq
• Musandam peninsula; Oman, United Arab Emirates

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

• Indostanic Peninsula: The Indian subcontinent is itself a peninsula.
• Colaba peninsula, Mumbai
• Deccan peninsula
• Worli peninsula, Mumbai
• Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat
• Gwadar peninsula, Pakistan
• Jaffna Peninsula, Northern Sri Lanka

China

• Kowloon Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Leizhou Peninsula
• Liaodong Peninsula
• Shandong Peninsula
• Fan Lau, (Hong Kong)
• Sai Kung Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Stanley Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Chi Ma Wan Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Chung Hom Kok Peninsula, (Hong Kong)
• Wan Tsai Peninsula

Korea

Korean Peninsula.

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Japan 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.

Japan

Kyūshū

Honshū

Hokkaido

• Shiretoko Peninsula
• Shakotan Peninsula

South East Asia

Philippines

Indonesia

Vietnam

Malaysia

• NorthWestern Peninsula, Kudat
• semenanjung Malaysia, West Malaysia
• semporna peninsula, Semporna & Tawau
• Sandakan Peninsula, sandakan
• Pitas peninsula, Pitas

North America

Canada

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:

• Fairpoint Peninsula
• Pinellas peninsula including St. Petersburg and Clearwater
• Much of Tampa lies on a peninsula called Interbay Peninsula jutting out into Tampa Bay
• Cape Sable

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

Virginia

Other states

Greenland

Mexico

Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, containing the state of Baja California and state of Baja California Sur The Baja California peninsula

Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean The Yucatán peninsula

South America

• Tierra del Fuego of Chile/Argentina was once a peninsula extending south from South America during the great Ice Ages

Other countries in South America

Caribbean

Africa

Antarctica

References

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