"almost an island"; i.e., a piece of land bordered by water on all but one side
No, a mainland is a large continuous land mass that is not surrounded by water on all sides. A peninsula is a landform that is surrounded by water on three sides.
The world's largest peninsula is the Arabian peninsula.
Thailand shares a peninsula with Malaysia. The peninsula is known as the Malay Peninsula.
Sevastopol is on a peninsula called crimea. (what else can i say?) IT is on a peninsula caleed crimea The Crimean Peninsula
Upper Peninsula lies North of the Lower Peninsula.
The meaning of peninsula in Tagalog is "tangway" or "tangos."
peninsula means nearly an island. its called greenwich peninsula because it is nearly an island
Peninsula.
Jazeera means "island" or "peninsula" in Arabic.
Latin root 'pene' means 'almost', and 'insula' means 'island', so a pene-insula, or peninsula is 'almost an island', i.e. a thin strip of land.
Pure Latin; pene means 'almost', and insula means 'island'.A long, thin spit of land is 'almost an island', thus; peninsula.
It means "The Island" or "Arabian Peninsula"
No. Look on a map, and every piece of land sticking out from another piece of land is a peninsula. The only bit attached to mainland Europe it the Jutland peninsula.
it means IT and LAY! so it means sumthin layed in egg!
No! That would be a bay, or a cove, or a gulf. A peninsula is the other way round - land surrounded by water on most sides (but not all, for that would then make it an island).
It means "The Island" or "Arabian Peninsula"
The word 'peninsula' is pronounced 'puh-nin-suh-luh'. Peninsula means an area of land surrounded by water on three sides, except for the isthmus connected to the main land.