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zh-cn:半岛
A peninsula is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body that is surrounded by water on three sides.
A peninsula could also be a headland, cape or spit.
Peninsulas include:
Continental Europe:
- Balkan peninsula
- Brittany
- Gallipoli of Turkey
- Iberian Peninsula (with Spain and Portugal)
- Istria
- Italy
- Jutland Peninsula in Northern Germany and southern Denmark
- Mount Athos, Greece
- Scandinavian Peninsula (with Sweden and Norway)
- Walcheren and Zuid-Beveland in the Netherlands
- Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines
- Crimea
- Korea
- Kowloon Peninsula, in Hong Kong
- Malay Peninsula
- Qatar
- Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
- Kamchatka
Americas:
- Baja California, Mexico, containing the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur
- Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico, despite its name, it is also a peninsula
- Cape Cod in Massachusetts
- Delmarva Peninsula, containing parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
- Florida Peninsula, comprising most of the state
- Labrador Peninsula
- Northern Neck, Middle Peninsula, and Virginia Peninsula, on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia
- Olympic Peninsula in Washington
- Paraguana, Venezuela
- San Francisco Peninsula, partly separating the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean
- Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in the Great Lakes
- Pinellas Peninsula, separating Tampa Bay from the Gulf of Mexico, comprising Pinellas County
- Ungava Peninsula
- Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea
New Zealand
- Banks Peninsula
- Coromandel Peninsula
- Karikari Peninsula
- Otago Peninsula
