Peninsula

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

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

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

Ireland

Italy

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

Russia

• Chukotka Peninsula
• Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Lithuania)
• Kamchatka Peninsula
• Kola Peninsula
• Rybachy Peninsula
• Samland peninsula, Kaliningrad Oblast
• Taymyr Peninsula
• Vistula Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast (shared with Poland)
• Yamal Peninsula

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

Other countries in Europe

• Apsheron, Azerbaijan
• Au peninsula, Au, Zurich, Switzerland
• Brittany, France
• Butjadingen, Germany
• Brøggerhalvøya, Svalbard
• Cotentin Peninsula, France
• Crimea, Ukraine
• Fischland-Darß-Zingst, Germany
• Hel Peninsula, Poland
• Karpass Peninsula, Cyprus
• North Holland, Netherlands
• Kakumäe Peninsula, Estonia
• Sõrve Säär, Estonia
• Walcheren, Netherlands
• Zuid-Beveland, Netherlands
• Tihany, Hungary

Asia

China

Eastern Mediterranean

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

• 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

Indonesia

Japan

Kyūshū

Honshū

Hokkaido

• Shiretoko Peninsula
• Shakotan Peninsula

Kazakhstan

• Mangyshlak Peninsula

Korea

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

• 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

South East Asia

• Malay Peninsula
• Indochina peninsula

Philippines

Vietnam

North America

Canada

Greenland

• Alfred Wegeners Halvo
• Hayes Halvo
• Ingnerit
• Nuussuaq Peninsula
• Sigguup Nunaa (Svartenhuk Halvø)

Mexico

• Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, containing the state of Baja California and state of Baja California Sur
• Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean

United States

Alaska

California

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:

• 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

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

• Dyke Peninsula
• Fountain Point
• Leelanau Peninsula
• Old Mission Peninsula
• The Thumb
• Woodtick Peninsula

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

• Abbaye Peninsula
• Garden Peninsula
• Keweenaw Peninsula
• Stonington Peninsula

New Jersey

New York

Utah

Virginia

Other states

• Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a cape that can be viewed as a peninsula
• Delmarva Peninsula, encompassing parts of Maryland and Virginia, and all of Delaware
• Door Peninsula, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan
• Key Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound
• Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, in Puget Sound
• Mokapu, Hawaii
• Nahant, Massachusetts
• Olympic Peninsula, Washington
• Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania
• Port Bolivar, Texas, On the Texas Coast.
• Encinal Peninsula, Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas.

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

External links

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

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