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What are the names of Asian Peninsulas and Plateaus?

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  1. Chief Peninsulas of Asia:

    3 in the south - Arabia, Deccan (South Asia), Soth East asia.

    Shantung(China), Korean, Kamchatka, Chukchi.

    in the North - Taymir, Yaml, Kola.  

    There are many minor peninsulas to major peninsulas.

    Note the similarities of the 3 southern peninsulas to the 3 southern peninsulas of Europe.w


  2. thailand is a peninsula i think

  3. The list of peninsulas in asia :

    RUSSIA :

    Chukchi Peninsula

    Kamchatka Peninsula

    Kola Peninsula

    Rybachiy Peninsula

    Samland peninsula, Kaliningrad Oblast

    Taymyr Peninsula

    Yamal Peninsula

    KAZAKHSTAN:

    Mangyshlak Peninsula

    Middle East :

    Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

    Al-Faw peninsula, Iraq

    Kapidagi Yarimadasi, Turkey

    Datça Peninsula, Turkey

    Side Peninsula, Turkey

    Musandam peninsula; Oman,United Arab Emirates

    Miankaleh peninsula, Iran

    Qatar

    Arabian Peninsula; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman

    Asia Minor

    Indian subcontinent and South Asia :



    South India (Peninsular India).The Indian subcontinent is itself a peninsula

    Colaba peninsula, Mumbai

    Deccan peninsula

    Worli peninsula, Mumbai

    Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat

    Gwadar peninsula, Pakistan

    China :

    Kowloon Peninsula, (Hong Kong)

    Leizhou Peninsula

    Liaodong Peninsula

    Shandong Peninsula

    Fan Lau, (Hong Kong)

    Sai Kung Peninsula, (Hong Kong)

    Stanley Peninsula, (Hong Kong)

    Chi Ma Wan Peninsula, (Hong Kong)

    Chung Hom Kok Peninsula, (Hong Kong)

    Wan Tsai Peninsula, (Hong Kong)

    Macau Peninsula, (Macau)

    Korean Peninsula :

    Main article: Korean Peninsula

    The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Japan on the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.

    Japan :

    kyūshū

    Nishi-sonogi-hanto

    Kunisaki-hanto

    Satsuma-hanto

    Osumi-hanto

    Honshū

    Oshika-hanto

    Noto-hanto

    Oga-hanto

    Miura-hato

    Boso-hanto

    South East Asia :

    Malay Peninsula

    Indochina peninsula

    Philippines :

    Caramoan Peninsula, Bicol

    Bataan Peninsula, Luzon

    Bondoc Peninsula, Luzon

    Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao

    San Ildefonso Peninsula, Luzon

    Indonesia :

    Poluostrov Yamau

    Semenanjung Blambangan, Java,

    Semenanjung Minahassa, Sulawesi

    East Peninsula, Sulawesi

    South-east Peninsula, Sulawesi

    South Peninsula, Sulawesi

    Some of the famous  plateaus include :

    Siberian traps in Russia

    The Deccan plateau in India

    The Tibetia plateau tibet.

    For more details try refering to this book :

    Williams, David B. A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country. Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing Company, 2001

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