The peninsula of Europe without islands and major peninsulas.
Europe is sometimes called the peninsula of peninsulas.
I
made this map about 5 years ago because I was curious what the main
peninsula of Europe looks like without all the other peninsulas and
islands around it.The major peninsulas I removed are:
– The Scandinavian Peninsula (Sweden & Norway)
– The Iberian Peninsula (Spain & Portugal)
–
The Balkan Peninsula (Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro,
Bulgaria, Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of Serbia,
Croatia, Romania, Turkey, Slovenia and Italy)– The Apennine Peninsula (Italy)
– The Jutland Peninsula (Denmark)
– The Crimean Peninsula (Ukraine)
– Brittany (France)
– Kola Peninsula (Russia)
And the Islands are pretty obvious.
Why not Finland?
Finland isn’t part of Scandinavia. Nor is it part of the Kola peninsula. Both of these kinda hang of this landmass.
Why not Anatolia?
Because geographically Anatolia isn’t part of Europe, which is what this map is about
Why not Cyprus?
Same reasoning
Why make this?
Why not? I was bored