What is Peninsula?

Information about Peninsula

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A peninsula in Croatia


A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered on three sides by water. A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.[1]

Europe

  • Europe itself is a peninsula.

Balkan "Peninsula"

The Balkans is a peninsula including Greece, Croatia, Albania and Montenegro.

Denmark

Italy

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula encompasses continental Spain and Portugal, Andorra and the British dependency of Gibraltar.

Scandinavian Peninsula

Encompassing Sweden and Norway

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Other countries

Asia

Russia

''See also Peninsulas of Russia

Kazakhstan

Middle East

Indian subcontinent and South Asia

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South India (Peninsular India).
  • The Indian subcontinent is itself a peninsula
  • Colaba peninsula, Mumbai city
  • Deccan peninsula
  • Worli peninsula, Mumbai
  • Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat
  • Gwadar peninsula, Pakistan

China

Korean Peninsula

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula.

Japan

''See also Peninsulas of Japan

Kyūshū

Honshū

South East Asia

Philippines

Indonesia

North America

Canada

United States of America

Florida

Florida is a well known example of a peninsula and has some peninsulas on it .

Other states

Greenland

  • Alfred Wegeners Halvo
  • Hayes Halvo
  • Ingnerit
  • Nuussuaq Halvo
  • Svartenhuk Halvo

Mexico

South America

Chile

Other countries

Caribbean

Oceania

Australia

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A beach on the Mornington Peninsula

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Africa

Antarctica

References

1. ^ Peninsula. – Britannica Student Encyclopedia. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica, Retrieved 2007-07-19.
A landform comprises a geomorphological unit, and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape, as part of the terrain, and as such, is typically an element of topography.
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. A bay is the reverse, rather an area of water bordered by land on three sides. A large headland may also be called a peninsula. Long, narrow and high headlands may be called promontories.
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promontory is a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (when it may be called a peninsula or headland).

Most promontories are formed either from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have removed the softer rock
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spit is a deposition landform found off coasts. A spit is a type of bar or beach that develops where a re-entrant occurs, such as at a cove, headlands and known as longshore drift.
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Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km² and an approximate population of 55 million people.
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Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki or Chalcidice, less often Khalkidiki and rarely Chalkidice (Greek: Χαλκιδική, IPA: [xalcigiˈci]
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Motto
Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Kassandra can refer to:
  • Cassandra, in Greek mythology
  • 114_Kassandra, an asteroid
  • a book written by the East German author Christa Wolf (published 1983)

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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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The Mani Peninsula (Μάνη in Greek), also long known as Maina or Maïna, is a region in Greece. Mani is the central peninsula of the three which extend southwards from the Peloponnese in southern Greece.
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Capital Karyes
Largest city Karyés
Official languages Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Modern Greek, Russian, Serbian, Georgian, Bulgarian, Romanian (both liturgical and civil use), Modern Greek (civil use)
Government
 -  Head of State 2
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus (Greek: Πελοπόννησος Pelopónnisos; see also List of Greek place names) is a large peninsula in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth.
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Sithonia is a peninsula located south of the central part of Halkidiki which is also in the south-central part of the Halkidiki peninsula. The Kassandra peninsula lies to the west and the Mount Athos peninsula at the east.
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Motto
Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Pelion or Pelium (Greek: Πήλιο Pilio, Ancient/Katharevousa: Πήλιον, Lat:
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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Istria (Croatian and Slovenian: Istra, Venetian and Italian: Istria), formerly Histria (Latin), is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner.
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Anthem
Lijepa naša domovino
Our beautiful homeland


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Anthem
Lijepa naša domovino
Our beautiful homeland


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Split (Greek: Ασπάλαθος, Aspálathos; Latin: Spalatum; Italian: Spalato
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Anthem
Lijepa naša domovino
Our beautiful homeland


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Zadar (Latin: Iadera, Italian: Zara) is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea, with a population of 72,718 (2006). It is the fifth largest Croatian city.
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Anthem
Lijepa naša domovino
Our beautiful homeland


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Motto
Ti Shqipëri më jep nder më jep emrin shqipëtar ( Albania give me honor, give me the Albanian name.)
Anthem
Rreth flamurit të përbashkuar''
("United Around the Flag")

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Anthem
Oj, svijetla majska zoro
"Oh, Bright Dawn of May"


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