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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.
The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula and Cape Flats, and the undeveloped land of the rest of the peninsula now form part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The Cape Peninsula is bounded to the north by Table Bay, to the west by the open Atlantic Ocean, and to the east by False Bay in the south and the Cape Flats in the ...
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa, from space Cape Tisan in Mersin Province, Turkey Cape Tindari and Marinello lagoons, Sicily. In geography, a cape is a headland, peninsula or promontory extending into a body of water, usually a sea. [1]
Peninsulas of Asia by country (19 C) A. Arabian Peninsula (16 C, 33 P) I. ... Kamchatka Peninsula; Klias Peninsula; Kudat Peninsula; Kyttyk Peninsula; L. Lisan ...
This is a list of the extreme points of Asia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. Asia Northernmost Point — Cape Fligely , Prince Rudolf Island , Franz Josef Land , Russia (81°52'N)
The region's precise boundaries vary depending on context, but countries and territories in Australasia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia are often included. In a wider context, Central Asia , North Asia , the Pacific Islands , South Asia , West Asia (including the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant ), and even Pacific-adjoining countries in the ...
The peninsula has a mountainous interior, although extensive lowlands are also found in the west, in the Evrotas Valley in the south, and in the Argolid Peninsula in the northeast. The Peloponnese possesses four south-pointing peninsulas, the Messenian , the Mani , the Cape Malea (also known as Epidaurus Limera), and the Argolid in the far ...