Peninsula

The remaining large peninsulas can be found all over the world. Numbers 6 through 10 on the list are the Alaskan Peninsula with an area of 579,153 square miles, the Labrador Peninsula (540,543 square miles), Scandinavia (289,577 square miles), The...
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Area: 748,553 square miles / 1,938,743 km². Continent: Asia. The third-largest peninsula in the world, the Indochina Peninsula, encompasses about 748,553 square miles. Indochina is what is considered to be Southeast Asia. There are five countries...
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Mi) The Iberian Peninsula 230,400 (Sq. Mi) The Kamchatka Peninsula 100,000 (Sq. Mi) 1. Arabian Peninsula. The largest Peninsula in the world with 1,250,006 square miles area is Arabian Peninsula. Located in the Middle East, it includes seven countries...
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. The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not...
Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Cape Town's mountain-spined peninsula runs from Table Mountain to Cape Point, Africa's southwestern-most tip and the meeting point of the Benguela and Agulhas ocean currents. Surfers enjoy the peninsula's...
peninsula, in physical geography, a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by water.The word is derived from the Latin paene ("almost") and insula ("island"). In its original sense it connotes attachment to a larger landmass by a...
From 500 to 1000, the Arabian Peninsula is critical to the east-west trade and is in close contact with Byzantium and Ethiopia. While Christianity and Judaism are important in the early part of the period, the birth of Islam in the seventh century...
1: Lizard Peninsula, England. Known affectionately as 'The Lizard', this peninsula in Cornwall is the most southernly point on the British mainland. From rolling farmland to jagged granite cliffs, smugglers coves and isolated beaches, it...
Guide to the Maine Peninsulas | Where to Play, Eat, Shop, and Stay. The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping, so it's so surprise that they're also home to many wonderful places to eat, shop, and stay. In the 2016...
Peninsula. A peninsula, from the Latin words for almost island, is a piece of land largely surrounded by water on three sides and joined to a larger body of land by an isthmus, or narrow neck. It can also more generally refer to any area of land that...
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