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Peninsulas of Asia by country (19 C) A. Arabian Peninsula (16 C, 32 P) I. Indian subcontinent (4 C, 7 P) K. Kamchatka Peninsula (3 C, 18 P) P. Peninsulas of the ...
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 ...
Category: Peninsulas of Asia by country. 9 languages. ... Peninsulas of Sri Lanka (1 P) T. Peninsulas of Turkey (2 C, 20 P) Peninsulas of Turkmenistan (2 P) U.
On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
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 ...
This is a list of articles giving brief summaries of each country in Asia. The transcontinental countries situated in both Asia and Europe are also shown. Outline of Abkhazia [ 1 ]
1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...
The Malay Peninsula [a] is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia , Southern Thailand , and the southernmost tip of Myanmar ( Kawthaung ).