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List of peninsulas

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A peninsula (Latin: paeninsula from paene "almost" and insula "island") is a piece of land that is bordered mostly by water but connected to mainland.[1][2][3][4] The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as such. A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[5] A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape.[6] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae. A river which courses through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a "peninsula" within the (almost closed) loop of water.

Presented below is a list of peninsulas.

Africa edit

 
The Horn of Africa also known as the Somali peninsula

Macaronesia edit

North Africa edit

Somali Peninsula edit

Main article: Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Guardafui Channel, and is the easternmost projection of the African continent. It denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

West Africa edit

Other peninsulas in Africa edit

Antarctica edit

Asia edit

Central Asia edit

Kazakhstan

Eastern Asia edit

China[7] edit

Main article: List of peninsulas of China

Hong Kong edit

Japan edit

See also: List of peninsulas of Japan
Hokkaido edit
Honshū edit
Kyūshū edit

Korea edit

Main article: Korea
 
Korean Peninsula

The whole landmass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the East Sea to the east and south, and the Yellow Sea to the west and south, with the Korea Strait connecting them.

Macau edit

Taiwan edit

Northern Asia edit

 
The Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East

South-eastern Asia edit

Indochina edit

Indonesia edit

Malaysia edit

Philippines edit

Singapore edit

Vietnam edit

Southern Asia edit

 
South India (Peninsular India)

The Deccan Peninsula is a dominant geographical feature of the Indian Subcontinent.

Other peninsulas on the Indian Subcontinent include:

Western Asia edit

Arabia edit

Eastern Mediterranean edit

Turkey edit

Main article: Peninsulas of Turkey
 
Map of the Anatolian Peninsula, the Asian part of Turkey

Europe edit

Europe is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula extending off Eurasia.[8] As such, it is one of the largest peninsulas in the world and the only one to have the status as a full continent, largely as a matter of convention rather than science. It is composed of many smaller peninsulas, the four main and largest component peninsulas being the Scandinavian, Iberian, Balkan, and Apennine peninsulas.

Balkan Peninsula edit

 
The Balkan Peninsula, as defined by the Soča–Vipava–Krka–Sava–Danube border.

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

France edit

Iberian Peninsula edit

Main article: Iberian Peninsula
 
Satellite view of the Iberian Peninsula

Encompassing continental Portugal and Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory), and a small amount of Southern France, the Iberian Peninsula is a dominant geographical feature of Iberia.

Other peninsulas in Iberia include:

Ireland edit

Italy edit

 
Satellite view of the Apennine Peninsula

The Apennine Peninsula is a dominant geographical feature of Italy.

Other peninsulas in Italy include:

Adriatic Sea
Ionian Sea
Ligurian Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea

Malta edit

Russia edit

Scandinavia edit

Main articles: Scandinavia, Scandinavian Peninsula, Jutland, and Fennoscandia
 
Fennoscandia including the Scandinavian Peninsula and Kola Peninsula

Norway edit

Sweden edit

Denmark edit

Finland edit

Estonia edit

Main article: List of peninsulas of Estonia

Turkey edit

Main article: Peninsulas of Turkey

Ukraine edit

United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies edit

England edit

 
England's South West Peninsula at the top and France's Brittany Peninsula at the bottom, with the English Channel between

Northern Ireland edit

Scotland edit

Wales edit

Channel Islands edit

Isle of Man edit

Other peninsulas in Europe edit

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

North America edit

Belize edit

Canada edit

British Columbia edit

New Brunswick edit

Newfoundland and Labrador edit

Northwest Territories edit

Nova Scotia edit

Nunavut edit

Baffin Island edit

Ontario edit

Quebec edit

Caribbean edit

Haiti edit

Dominican Republic edit

Puerto Rico edit

Cuba edit

Saint Lucia edit

Costa Rica edit

Greenland edit

Mexico edit

 
The Yucatán Peninsula

Panama edit

United States edit

Alaska edit

California edit

Main article: Peninsulas of California

Florida edit

 
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:

Maryland edit

 
Mid-Atlantic shoreline showing, from the upper right, the Cape May Peninsula of New Jersey, Delaware Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and Chesapeake Bay. Also visible are the peninsulas of Maryland and Virginia along the Chesapeake's shores.

Massachusetts edit

 
Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts

Michigan edit

Main articles: Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Lower Peninsula of Michigan
 
The large Michigan Peninsulas from space, showing both the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula

Michigan – the only bi-peninsular state – is very distinguishable for its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula which includes:

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan contains:

New Jersey edit

New York edit

 
Long Island, New York, with its North and South Forks
  • Irondequoit, NY (geographical headland)

Oregon edit

Main article: Peninsulas of Oregon

Utah edit

  • Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake
  • Promontory 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

Vermont edit

  • Alburgh, Vermont, is on the Alburgh Tongue, a peninsula extending from Quebec, Canada into Lake Champlain

Virginia edit

Washington edit

Wisconsin edit

Other states edit

Oceania edit

Australia edit

 
Satellite image of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria
 
Palm Beach, Sydney, New South Wales
 
Torndirrup Peninsula, Western Australia

New Zealand edit

North Island edit

South Island edit

 
NASA satellite photo of the Otago Peninsula and Otago Harbour. The city of Dunedin is located at the isthmus at lower left.

Outlying Islands edit

Papua New Guinea edit

Hawaii edit

South America edit

 
Satellite images of the Southern Cone extending off South America month by month

Southern Cone edit

The Southern Cone, like Europe, is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula.[9] Geographically, the peninsula encompasses most of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Southern Brazil and the southernmost portion of Paraguay, which makes it one of the largest peninsulas in the world. Like the Indian Peninsula, the Southern Cone is sometimes considered to be a subcontinent.[10]

Other peninsulas in South America edit

Argentina edit

Brazil edit

Chile edit

Colombia edit

Peru edit

Uruguay edit

Venezuela edit

Fictional peninsulas edit

 
Map of Brobdingnag (original map, Pt II, Gulliver's Travels

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2004. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-547-35027-1. OCLC 55746553.
  2. ^ "pen·in·su·la". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  3. ^ "Definition of peninsula". Cambridge Dictionaries Online. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Definition of peninsula". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  5. ^ "List of peninsulas". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Fourah Point / Fourah Point, Northern, Sierra Leone, Africa". travelingluck.com.
  7. ^ "中国一共有几个半岛-爱问知识人". iask.sina.com.cn. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  8. ^ National Geographic, ed. (1996). "Peninsula". Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  9. ^ Podetti, J. Ramiro (2011). "La visión geopolítica de Artigas": 3. Retrieved 10 November 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ Baldwin, James A. (2014), "Continents", in R.W. McColl (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Geography, Infobase Publishing, p. 215, ISBN 978-0-8160-7229-3

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