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The Balkan Peninsula has a combined area of about 470,000 km 2 (181,000 sq mi). The peninsula is generally encompassed in the region known as Southeast Europe. [33] [34] [35] Italy currently holds a small area around Trieste that is by some older definitions considered a part of the Balkan Peninsula. However, the regions of Trieste and Istria ...
Added missing Greek islands to the map, removed blue color from Euboea Island since it is not part of the Balkan peninsula. 16:40, 19 October 2012 1,800 × 1,500 (294 KB)
Southern Europe is focused on the three peninsulas located in the extreme south of the European continent. These are the Iberian Peninsula, the Italian Peninsula, and the Balkan Peninsula. [12] [13] These three peninsulas are separated from the rest of Europe by towering mountain ranges, respectively by the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Balkan ...
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 ...
Original – Geographic map of Balkan Peninsula Reason High EV and very detailed Articles in which this image appears Balkans, Southeast Europe, Christianization FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps Creator Ikonact. Support as nominator – ArionStar 23:36, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
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With a land area of 504,782 square kilometres (194,897 sq mi) in the Iberian peninsula, [1] Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France), and the fourth largest country in the European continent (behind Russia, Ukraine, and France). It has an average altitude of 650 m.