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List of peninsulas

A peninsula ( from paene "almost" and insula "island") is a piece of land that is bordered mostly by water but connected to mainland. 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. A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape. 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

Macaronesia

North Africa

Somali Peninsula

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

Other peninsulas in Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Central Asia

Kazakhstan

Eastern Asia

China

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong itself is a peninsula.

Japan

Hokkaido
Honshū
Kyūshū

Korea

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

Taiwan

Northern Asia

South-eastern Asia

Indochina

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Thailand

  • Sathing Phra Peninsula

Singapore

Vietnam

India

The Deccan Peninsula is a dominant geographical feature of the Indian subcontinent

Other peninsulas on the Indian Subcontinent include:

Western Asia

Arabia

Eastern Mediterranean

Turkey

Europe

Europe is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula extending off Eurasia. 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

The Balkans is a region which natural borders do not coincide with the technical definition of a peninsula hence modern geographers reject the idea of a Balkan Peninsula. It would include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.

France

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

Italy

The Apennine Peninsula is the dominant geographical feature of Italy.

Other peninsulas in Italy include:

Adriatic Sea
Ionian Sea
Ligurian Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea

Malta

Russia

Scandinavia

Norway

Sweden

Denmark

Finland

Estonia

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

Wales

Channel Islands

Isle of Man

Other peninsulas in Europe

North America

Belize

Canada

British Columbia

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Baffin Island

Ontario

Quebec

Caribbean

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Puerto Rico

Cuba

Saint Lucia

  • Vigie Peninsula, St Lucia

Costa Rica

Greenland

Mexico

Panama

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:

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

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

New York

  • Irondequoit, NY (geographical headland)

Oregon

Utah

  • 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

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

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin

Other states

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

North Island

South Island

Outlying Islands

Papua New Guinea

Hawaii

South America

Southern Cone

The Southern Cone, like Europe, is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula. 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.

Other peninsulas in South America

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Fictional peninsulas

See also

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