It has been proposed that Peninsula be renamed and moved to List of peninsulas (Discuss).

The Arabian Peninsula is the world's largest peninsula by area.

The Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

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[link]

Australia[link]

A beach on the Mornington Peninsula

Looking north over the Kurnell Peninsula.

Papua New Guinea[link]

New Zealand[link]

Europe[link]

• 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[link]

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[link]

Iberian Peninsula[link]

Satellite view of the Iberian Peninsula

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

Ireland[link]

Italy[link]

Satellite view of the famous boot shaped Italian Peninsula

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

Russia[link]

Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea

• 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[link]

Encompassing present-day Sweden, Norway, and part of Finland.

Turkey[link]

• Anatolian Peninsula
• Armutlu Peninsula
• Datça Peninsula
• Dilek Peninsula
• Gallipoli Peninsula
• Karaburun Peninsula
• Thracian Peninsula

United Kingdom[link]

• 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[link]

Scotland[link]

Wales[link]

Northern Ireland[link]

Other countries in Europe[link]

A small peninsula in Croatia

Au peninsula, Lake Zürich, Switzerland

• 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[link]

China[link]

Eastern Mediterranean[link]

Indian subcontinent and South Asia[link]

South India (Peninsular India).

• 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[link]

Japan[link]

Kyūshū[link]

Honshū[link]

Hokkaido[link]

• Shiretoko Peninsula
• Shakotan Peninsula

Kazakhstan[link]

• Mangyshlak Peninsula

Korea[link]

Korean Peninsula.

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[link]

Persian Gulf[link]

• 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[link]

• Malay Peninsula
• Indochina peninsula

Philippines[link]

Vietnam[link]

North America[link]

Canada[link]

Greenland[link]

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

Mexico[link]

The Yucatán peninsula

• 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[link]

Alaska[link]

California[link]

Florida[link]

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:

• 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[link]

The large Michigan Peninsulas from space, showing both the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula.

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[link]

New York[link]

Utah[link]

Virginia[link]

Other states[link]

Cape Cod, a peninsula of Massachusetts

• 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.