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peninsula (enc)

Peninsula

Noun1.peninsula - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
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 Peninsula, Sinai - a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
Choson, Korea, Korean Peninsula - an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Choson
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 Peninsula, Qatar Peninsula, Katar, Qatar - 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
Alaska Peninsula - a peninsula in southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands)
Seward Peninsula - a peninsula in western Alaska that projects westward into the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle
Cape Ann - a Massachusetts peninsula north of Boston extending into the Atlantic Ocean
Cape Cod - a Massachusetts peninsula south of Boston extending into the Atlantic; a popular resort area
Alaska Peninsula - a peninsula of southwestern Alaska
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 Carpenteria and the Coral Sea
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
dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, land, earth - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"
Baja California, Lower California - a mountainous peninsula on northwest Mexico
Lower Peninsula - the part of northern 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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