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Peninsula
A peninsula is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body that is surrounded by water on three sides.
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
Asia:
- Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines
- Crimea
- Korea
- Malay Peninsula
- Qatar
- Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
- Kamchatka
- Cape Cod
- Delmarva Peninsula
- Florida
- San Francisco Peninsula separating the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
- Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
- Yucatan
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