Peninsula

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A peninsula, from the Latin 'paeninsula' ('paene', almost, and 'insula', island), is a piece of land surrounded mostly by sea, but adjoining some land.

Some examples are:

Apennine peninsula

Balkan peninsula

Iberian peninsula