The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

To the south-west of this peninsula lies the Place Bonaparte, a quarter frequented chiefly by winter visitors attracted by the mild climate of the town.

Despite their proximity to Qatar ( Suwād al Janūbīyah is only 1. 4 km from the Qatari mainland at the peninsula of Ras Abruq, while Rubud Al Gharbiyah, the island closest to the main island of Bahrain, lies at a distance of 19. 7 km to it ), the islands belong to Bahrain but were the subject of a dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.

* Much of Tampa lies on a peninsula called Interbay Peninsula jutting out into Tampa Bay

* Bergen Point and Constable Hook are two peninsulas in Bayonne, which itself lies on peninsula surrounded by Upper New York Bay, Newark Bay, and the Kill van Kull, formerly known as Bergen Neck

The largest island, Jeju-do, lies off the southwest corner of the peninsula and has a land area of 1, 825 square kilometers.

The town of Gulf Shores lies just outside of the bay, on the Fort Morgan peninsula.

The island nation of Bahrain lies off the east coast of the peninsula.

Northwards of Slovenian Istria, there is a tiny portion of the peninsula that lies in Italy.

The Bahia Sebastian Vizcaino, the largest bay in Baja, lies along the Pacific coast halfway up the peninsula.

With a course that covers a distance of 829 km, it is the fourth-longest in the Iberian peninsula, and its hydrological basin extends into an area of approximately 68, 000 km² ( the majority of which lies within Spain ).

King George County is located on the Northern Neck peninsula and is bounded on the north by the Potomac River, which lies in Charles County, Maryland.

Much of the county lies between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers on geographically long narrow peninsula, ( sometimes called Bergen Neck ), that is a contiguous urban area where it's often difficult to know when one's crossed a civic boundary.

Most of the county lies on a peninsula that juts into Delaware Bay.

It is plac'd on a peninsula between the River Yare and the sea ; the two last lying parallel to one another, and the town in the middle: The river lies on the west-side of the town, and being grown very large and deep, by a conflux of all the rivers on this side the county, forms the haven ; and the town facing to the west also, and open to the river, makes the finest key in England, if not in Europe, not inferior even to that of Marseilles itself.

The town lies near the geographical center of the Florida peninsula.

Situated on the Cape Newagen peninsula extending into the Gulf of Maine, Boothbay lies between the Sheepscot River and Damariscotta River.

The vast bulk of Tyresö lies on the Södertörn peninsula, with some islands in the Baltic sea, of which Ägnö and Härsö are the largest ones.

The Darß lies northeast of Fischland and west of the peninsula of Zingst, its boundary with the latter being formed by the inlet of the Prerower Strom.

Because Læsø is an island and lies in the Kattegat, its neighboring municipality, Frederikshavn on the Jutland peninsula, is separated by water, the Læsø Rende, from the island municipality.

It lies on the Broagerland peninsula, and is therefore surrounded by water on three sides, the waters of Flensborg Fjord leading into the Baltic Sea.

The town of Broager lies in the middle of the peninsula by a major road, which leads to the Egernsund Bridge, which crosses over the Egern Strait to the Jutland mainland.

A fictional Middle Eastern state often lies somewhere on the Arabian peninsula, has substantial oil-wealth and will have a sultan, or features a stereotypically Muslim Extremist culture, widespread terrorism and poverty, and a country name ending in-istan.

The Malabar region lies along the south-west coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of present-day Kerala state.

Anatolia () is a large, roughly rectangular peninsula situated bridge like between Europe and Asia.

The Indochinese peninsula refers to a region in Southeast Asia lying roughly southwest of China, and east of India.

The Papal State ( s ), the State ( s ) of the Church, the Pontifical States, the Ecclesiastical States, or the Roman States (, also Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa, Stati Pontifici, and Stato Ecclesiastico ;, also Dicio Pontificia ) were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia ( after which the Papal States, in less territorially extensive form, continued to exist until 1870 ).

The peninsula is shaped like a triangle ( about per side ), with the base of the triangle roughly along the north and its apex on the south, near Dakar.

Lake Wales is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a sandy upland area running roughly parallel to both coasts in the center of the peninsula.

The West Saxons had since expanded further down the southwestern peninsula, pushing back the boundary with the British kingdom of Dumnonia, which was probably roughly equivalent to modern Devon and Cornwall.

The major types can be roughly defined as East Asian with its origins in Imperial China and now encompassing modern Japan and the Korean peninsula ; Southeast Asian which encompasses Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines ; South Asian states that are made up of India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as several other countries in this region of the continent ; Central Asian and Middle Eastern.

Koch defines the region roughly as " the area approximately between the line of the river Mersey and the Forth-Clyde isthmus ", but goes on to include evidence from the Wirral peninsula in his discussion and gives no real indication of the easterly extent of the region.

The population of the peninsula is roughly 1, 000, 000 people.

It roughly corresponds to the southern part of the Castile, taken during the Reconquista of the peninsula by Christian kings from Muslim rulers.

The peninsula extends roughly northwestwards from the rest of Southern Ontario, pointing towards Manitoulin Island, with which it forms the widest strait joining Georgian Bay to the rest of Lake Huron.

In 1880, by then a young adult of 22, Roosevelt purchased 155 acres ( 62. 7 hectares ) of land for $ 30, 000 ( equal to $ today ) on Cove Neck, a small peninsula roughly northeast of the village of Oyster Bay.

Thisted municipality is roughly identical with the traditional district of Thy, except that the municipality includes a small portion of the district Hanherred, but not the southernmost peninsula of Thy, Thyholm.

Municipalities on the peninsula include — in roughly west-to-east order — the Cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam, and Port Coquitlam.

The island is roughly rectangular, with the exception of a long narrow peninsula on the west coast known as Five Fingers Peninsula: an area protected by the Taumoana ( Five Fingers Peninsula ) Marine Reserve.

It is located in the southern portion of the Charlestown Peninsula, an historically oval, but now more roughly triangular, peninsula that was originally connected to Cambridge in colonial times by an artificial causeway.

Dongye, which means the Eastern Ye, was a Korean chiefdom which occupied portions of the northeastern Korean peninsula from roughly 3rd-century BCE to around early 5th-century.

It was situated on the Taman peninsula, in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia, roughly opposite Kerch.

The roughly rectangular peninsula is about long and wide.

The roughly 136 acre ( 550, 000 m² ) island was once a peninsula of Saint Thomas, known as Orkanhullet ( Hurricane Hole ).

The name was coined to denote a geographical region, roughly coinciding with the Austrian Littoral, limited by the lower flow of the Isonzo / Soča river and the Gulf of Trieste in the west, the Julian Alps in the north and north-east, and Carniola and Liburnia to the east, thus including all of the Kras Plateau and most of the Istrian peninsula.

It is divided into two parts by a peninsula, called die Enge ( the Narrow ), situated roughly in the middle of its southern shore opposite St. Wolfgang, where the breadth is no more than 200 metres.

At the south end of the peninsula were 2 farms the one on the eastern side, roughly on the same land as Macleans College, was run by the Trusdale family.

The North Fork is a 30-mile-long peninsula in the northeast part of Suffolk County, New York, roughly parallel with an even longer peninsula known as the South Fork.