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==== Ontario ====
==== Quebec ==== Gaspé Peninsula Ungava Peninsula
=== Caribbean ===
==== Haiti ==== Peninsule de Tiburon, Haiti Peninsule de Mole-St-Nicolas, Haiti
==== Dominican Republic ==== Peninsula de Samaná, Dominican Republic
==== Puerto Rico ==== Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico
==== Cuba ==== Zapata Peninsula, Cuba Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba Hicacos Peninsula, Cuba
==== Saint Lucia ==== Vigie Peninsula, St Lucia
=== Costa Rica === Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
=== Greenland === Wegener Peninsula Hayes Halvo Ingnerit Nuussuaq Peninsula Sigguup Nunaa (Svartenhuk Halvø)
=== Mexico ===
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
=== Panama ===
=== United States ===
==== Alaska ==== Alaska Peninsula Cleveland Peninsula Kenai Peninsula Seward Peninsula Lisburne Peninsula
==== California ====
==== Florida ====
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 ====
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.
==== Massachusetts ====
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
==== Michigan ====
==== New Jersey ====
==== New York ====
Irondequoit, NY (geographical headland)
==== Oregon ====
==== Utah ==== 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
==== Vermont ==== Alburgh, Vermont, is on the Alburgh Tongue, a peninsula extending from Quebec, Canada into Lake Champlain
==== Virginia ==== 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
==== Washington ====
==== Wisconsin ==== 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
==== Other states ====
== Oceania ==
=== Australia ===
=== New Zealand ===
==== North Island ====
==== South Island ====
==== Outlying Islands ====
=== Papua New Guinea === Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain Huon Peninsula Papuan Peninsula
=== Hawaii === Mokapu, Hawaii
== South America ==
=== Southern Cone === The Southern Cone, like Europe, is sometimes considered to be a large peninsula. 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.
=== Other peninsulas in South America ===
==== Argentina ==== Valdés Peninsula Verde Peninsula
==== Brazil ==== Cabo de São Tomé Itapagipe Peninsula
==== Chile ==== Brunswick Peninsula Hardy Peninsula Taitao Peninsula
==== Colombia ==== Guajira Peninsula
==== Peru ==== Illescas Peninsula Paracas Peninsula
==== Uruguay ==== Punta del Este
==== Venezuela ==== Araya Peninsula Guajira Peninsula Paraguaná Peninsula Paria Peninsula
== Fictional peninsulas ==
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
== See also == Cape (geography) Headland Isthmus List of islands Promontory Salient (geography) Spit (landform) Tombolo
== References ==
== External links == The dictionary definition of peninsula at Wiktionary Media related to Peninsulas at Wikimedia Commons