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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) 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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[edit] Oceania

[edit] Australia

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

[edit] New Zealand

[edit] Papua New Guinea

[edit] 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.

[edit] Balkan Peninsula

The Balkans is a peninsula including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Italy

[edit] Iberian Peninsula

Main article: Iberian Peninsula

Encompassing continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

[edit] Scandinavian Peninsula

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

[edit] Turkey

Main article: Peninsulas of Turkey

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] England

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Wales

[edit] Northern Ireland

[edit] Republic of Ireland

[edit] Russia

[edit] Other countries

Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland


[edit] Asia

[edit] Kazakhstan

[edit] Eastern Mediterranean

Panoramic view of Beirut.
Panoramic view of Haifa, Israel's Second Largest Metropolitan Area

[edit] Persian Gulf

[edit] Indian subcontinent and South Asia

South India (Peninsular India).

[edit] China

[edit] Korea

Main article: Korean Peninsula

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Japan (also known as the East Sea) 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.

[edit] Japan

See also: List of peninsulas of Japan

[edit] Kyūshū

[edit] Honshū

[edit] Hokkaido

[edit] South East Asia

[edit] Philippines

[edit] Indonesia

[edit] Vietnam

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

[edit] United States

[edit] Alaska

[edit] California

[edit] Florida

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:

[edit] Michigan

Main articles: Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lower Peninsula of Michigan

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

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

[edit] New Jersey

[edit] New York

[edit] 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

[edit] Virginia

[edit] Other states

[edit] Greenland

[edit] Mexico

[edit] South America

[edit] Chile

[edit] Other countries

[edit] Caribbean

[edit] Africa

[edit] Antarctica

[edit] References

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  1. ^ Peninsula. – Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved 2007-07-19.
  2. ^ http://travelingluck.com/Africa/Sierra%20Leone/Northern/_2409328_Fourah+Point.html#local_map
  3. ^ "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition". International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. http://www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S23_1953.pdf. Retrieved 7 February 2010. 


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