peninsula

1. A large mass of land projecting into a body of water (synset 109411741)
   is a type of: dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma - the solid part of the earth's surface
   specific instances:

   • anatolia, asia minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
   • balkan peninsula, balkans - a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
   • indochina, indochinese peninsula - a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
   • yucatan, yucatan peninsula - a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
   • scandinavia, scandinavian peninsula - the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden
   • jutland, jylland - peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany
   • peloponnese, peloponnesian peninsula, peloponnesus - the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC
   • italian peninsula - a boot-shaped peninsula in southern Europe extending into the Mediterranean Sea
   • nova scotia - a peninsula in eastern Canada between the Bay of Fundy and the Saint Lawrence River
   • arabia, arabian peninsula - a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
   • sinai, sinai peninsula - a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
   • dae-han-min-gook, han-gook, korea, korean peninsula - an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook
   • malay peninsula - a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar
   • iberia, iberian peninsula - a peninsula in southwestern Europe
   • katar, katar peninsula, qatar, qatar peninsula - a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf
   • horn of africa, somali peninsula - a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
   • kola peninsula - a peninsula in northwestern Russia projecting eastward between the Barents Sea and the White Sea
   • crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
   • kamchatka peninsula - a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk
   • taimyr peninsula, taymyr peninsula - a peninsula in northern Siberia
   • seward peninsula - a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle
   • cape ann - a Massachusetts peninsula to the north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean
   • cape cod - a Massachusetts peninsula to the south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area
   • alaska peninsula - a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands)
   • antarctic peninsula, palmer peninsula - a large peninsula of Antarctica that extends some 1200 miles north toward South America; separates the Weddell Sea from the South Pacific
   • cape york peninsula - a peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea
   • chukchi peninsula - peninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska
   • eyre peninsula - a peninsula of southern Australia
   • labrador peninsula, labrador-ungava peninsula - a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador
   • liaodong bandao, liaodong peninsula - a peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay
   • baja california, lower california - a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico
   • lower peninsula - the part of Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
   • upper peninsula - the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan

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