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[[Balkan peninsula]]
[[Balkan peninsula]]
[[Iberian peninsula]]

Revision as of 14:32, 15 February 2008

A peninsula, from the Latin 'paeninsula' ('paene', almost, and 'insula', island), is a piece of land surrounded mostly by sea, but adjoining some land.

Some examples are:

Apennine peninsula

Balkan peninsula

Iberian peninsula