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.^[1][2][3][4] The surrounding water is usually understood to be continuous, though not necessarily named as such. A peninsula can also be a headland, cape, island promontory, bill, point, or spit.^[5] A point is generally considered a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water that is less prominent than a cape.^[6] In English, the plural of peninsula is peninsulas or, less commonly, peninsulae. A river which courses through a very tight meander is also sometimes said to form a "peninsula" within the (almost closed) loop of water.

Presented below is a list of peninsulas.

• Jandía, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
• Macizo de Anaga, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
• Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira Island, Portugal

The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Guardafui Channel, and is the easternmost projection of the African continent. It denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

• Buri Peninsula, Eritrea
• Ras Hafun, Somalia
• Ras Kasar, Eritrea
• Ras Siyyan, Djibouti

• Lekki Peninsula, Lagos, Nigeria
• Mahin Land Peninsula, Ilaje local government,Ondo State, Nigeria
• Cap-Vert, Senegal
• Turner's Peninsula, Sierra Leone

• Bakassi, Cameroon, but disputed with Nigeria
• Cape Peninsula, South Africa
• Le Morne Brabant, Mauritius
• Uyoma, Kenya

• Antarctic Peninsula
• Edward VII Peninsula
• Fletcher Peninsula
• Fowler Peninsula
• Martin Peninsula

Kazakhstan

• Mangyshlak Peninsula

• Liaodong Peninsula
• Shandong Peninsula
• Leizhou Peninsula

• Kowloon Peninsula
• Sai Kung Peninsula
• Stanley Peninsula
• Shek O

• Shiretoko Peninsula
• Shakotan Peninsula

• Oshika-hanto
• Noto-hanto
• Oga-hanto
• Miura-hanto
• Bōsō-hanto

• Nishi-sonogi-hanto
• Satsuma-hanto
• Ōsumi-hanto
• Shimabara-hanto

The whole landmass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the East Sea to the east and south, and the Yellow Sea to the west and south, with the Korea Strait connecting them.

• Macau Peninsula

• Hengchun Peninsula

• Indochina Peninsula
  • Malay Peninsula

• Northwestern Peninsula, Kudat
• Pitas Peninsula, Pitas
• Semporna Peninsula, Semporna and Tawau
• Sandakan Peninsula, Sandakan
• Peninsula Malaysia

• Sathing Phra Peninsula

• Tuas

The Deccan Peninsula is a dominant geographical feature of the Indian Subcontinent.

Other peninsulas on the Indian Subcontinent include:

• Arabian Peninsula; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman
• Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq
• Musandam Peninsula; Oman, United Arab Emirates

• Beirut, Lebanon
• El Mina, Lebanon
• Haifa, Israel
• Acre, Israel
• Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Europe is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula extending off Eurasia.^[8] As such, it is one of the largest peninsulas in the world and the only one to have the status as a full continent, largely as a matter of convention rather than science. It is composed of many smaller peninsulas, the four main and largest component peninsulas being the Scandinavian, Iberian, Balkan, and Apennine peninsulas.

The Balkans is a region which natural borders do not coincide with the technical definition of a peninsula hence modern geographers reject the idea of a Balkan Peninsula. It would include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.

• Chalkidiki, Greece
• Kassandra, Greece
• Mani Peninsula, Greece
• Mount Athos, Greece
• Peloponnese, Greece (now an island because of the Corinth Canal)
• Sithonia, Greece
• Pilio, Greece
• Istria, Croatia
• Piran Peninsula, Slovenia
• Pelješac, Croatia
• Prevlaka, Croatia
• Split, Croatia
• Zadar, Croatia
• Karaburun Peninsula, Albania
• Luštica, Montenegro
• Gallipoli, Turkey
• Klek (peninsula), Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Istanbul, Turkey

• Brittany
• Cap Corse, Corsica
• Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy
• Crozon, Finistère
• Landes du Médoc, Aquitaine

Encompassing continental Portugal and Spain, Andorra, Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory), and a small amount of Southern France, the Iberian Peninsula is a dominant geographical feature of Iberia.

Other peninsulas in Iberia include:

The Apennine Peninsula is the dominant geographical feature of Italy.

Other peninsulas in Italy include:

Adriatic Sea

• Promontorio del Gargano

Ionian Sea

• Calabria
• Salento

Ligurian Sea

• Portofino
• Portovenere
• Promontorio di Piombino

Tyrrhenian Sea

• Gaeta
• Promontorio del Circeo
• Promontorio dell'Argentario
• Promontorio di Punta Ala
• Sorrentine Peninsula

• Valletta
• Senglea
• Birgu
• Sliema
• Ta' Xbiex
• Marsaskala
• Fort Ricasoli

• Hanko Peninsula, Hanko
• Porkkala Peninsula, Kirkkonummi
• Suensaari, Tornio

• Gallipoli Peninsula
• Thracian Peninsula

• Crimean Peninsula, occupied by Russia
• Chonhar Peninsula
• Kinburn Peninsula
• Rybalskyi Peninsula

• Ards Peninsula
• Islandmagee
• Lecale peninsula
• Ramore Head, Portrush
• Oxford Island
• Magilligan

• Creuddyn Peninsula juts out of the North Wales coast
• Gower Peninsula, Swansea
• Llŷn Peninsula
• Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire
• South Pembrokeshire Peninsula
• St Davids Head, Pembrokeshire
• Wales, itself a peninsula

• Le Clos du Valle, Guernsey
• Little Sark, Sark

• Langness Peninsula, Malew

• Placencia Peninsula, Belize

• Dunlas Peninsula, Melville Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut
• Labrador Peninsula, encompassing all of Labrador and most of Quebec
• Natkusiak Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut
• Storkerson Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut
• Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories/Nunavut

• Gaspé Peninsula
• Ungava Peninsula

• Peninsule de Tiburon, Haiti
• Peninsule de Mole-St-Nicolas, Haiti

• Peninsula de Samaná, Dominican Republic

• Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico

• Zapata Peninsula, Cuba
• Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba
• Hicacos Peninsula, Cuba

• Vigie Peninsula, St Lucia

• Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
• Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

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

• Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, containing the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur
• Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean

• Alaska Peninsula
• Cleveland Peninsula
• Kenai Peninsula
• Seward Peninsula
• Lisburne Peninsula

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:

• The St. Johns River creates a large peninsula over 75 miles (121 km) in length that stretches from eastern Jacksonville down to the border of Flagler and Volusia counties, where the river emanates from Lake George.
• 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

• Maryland shares the Delmarva Peninsula east of Chesapeake Bay with Delaware and Virginia.
• St. Mary's Peninsula is defined by the Patuxent River, the Potomac River, and Chesapeake Bay.
• Calvert Peninsula lies between Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent River.
• Numerous smaller tidal tributaries form smaller peninsulas on both the Eastern and Western shores of Chesapeake Bay. Named examples include the Broadneck Peninsula in Anne Arundel County and the Elk Neck Peninsula in Cecil County.

• Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a cape that can be viewed as a peninsula
• Cape Ann, includes the towns of Gloucester and Rockport
• Nahant, a town in Essex County, is on a small peninsula.
• Nantasket Peninsula, Hull
• Shawmut Peninsula, Boston

• Irondequoit, NY (geographical headland)

• Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake
• Promontory Peninsula, on the north eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake
• Stansbury Peninsula becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

• Alburgh, Vermont, is on the Alburgh Tongue, a peninsula extending from Quebec, Canada into Lake Champlain

• Middle Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay
• Northern Neck, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay
• Virginia Peninsula, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay

• Key Peninsula in Puget Sound
• Kitsap Peninsula in Puget Sound
• Long Beach Peninsula
• Olympic Peninsula
• Magnolia, Seattle
• Tsawwassen Peninsula, which extends beyond the Canada/United States border, creating the pene-exclave of Point Roberts, Washington

• Bark Point, Wisconsin in Lake Superior
• Bayfield Peninsula, Wisconsin in Lake Superior
• Chequamegon Point, Wisconsin in Lake Superior
• Door Peninsula, Wisconsin, in Lake Michigan
• Jones Island, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Lake Michigan
• Little Tail Point, Wisconsin in Green Bay (Lake Michigan)
• Marshall's Point, Wisconsin on North Bay in Lake Michigan
• MawBilly Joelwe Point, Wisconsin on MawBilly Joelwe Bay in Lake Superior
• Roman Point on Siskiwit Bay, Wisconsin, in Lake Superior
• Toft Point between Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin and Moonlight Bay, Wisconsin in Lake Michigan

• Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain
• Huon Peninsula
• Papuan Peninsula

• Mokapu, Hawaii

The Southern Cone, like Europe, is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula.^[9] Geographically, the peninsula encompasses most of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Southern Brazil and the southernmost portion of Paraguay, which makes it one of the largest peninsulas in the world. Like the Indian Peninsula, the Southern Cone is sometimes considered to be a subcontinent.^[10]

• Valdés Peninsula
• Verde Peninsula

• Cabo de São Tomé
• Itapagipe Peninsula

• Brunswick Peninsula
• Hardy Peninsula
• Taitao Peninsula

• Guajira Peninsula

• Illescas Peninsula
• Paracas Peninsula

• Punta del Este

• Araya Peninsula
• Guajira Peninsula
• Paraguaná Peninsula
• Paria Peninsula

• Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Xanth in Xanth series by Piers Anthony
• The Valyrian Peninsula in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin

• Cape (geography)
• Headland
• Isthmus
• Promontory
• Salient (geography)
• Spit (landform)
• Tombolo

• The dictionary definition of peninsula at Wiktionary
• Media related to Peninsulas at Wikimedia Commons