Peninsulas of Turkey

Turkey is a peninsular country; the country is located on two peninsulas; the Asiatic side is named as Anatolia, and European side is named as Thrace. On these two main peninsulas there are secondary peninsulas. ^[1]^[2]^[3]

The list of peninsulas

Peninsula	Main peninsula	Sea	Province
Çatalca	Thrace	Between Black Sea and Marmara	İstanbul
Kocaeli	Anatolia	Between Black Sea and Marmara	İstanbul and Kocaeli
Armutlu	Anatolia	Marmara	Yalova
Kapıdağ	Anatolia	Marmara	Balıkesir
Gelibolu	Thrace	Between Marmara and Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
Biga (Troad)	Anatolia	Between Marmara and Aegean Sea	Çanakkale
Karaburun	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	İzmir
Dilek	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Aydın
Bodrum	Anatolia	Aegean Sea	Muğla
Datça (Reşadiye)	Anatolia	Between Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
Bozburun	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Muğla
Çukurbağ	Anatolia	Mediterranean Sea	Antalya

References

^ Faik Sabri Duran, Büyük Atlas (İstanbul: Kanaat Yayınevi, 2001; ISBN 975-7537-04-7).
^ Türkiye Turizm Atlası 2009 (İstanbul: Boyut Yayıncılık, 2009; ISBN 978-975-23-0634-9).
^ Britannica Atlas,Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.,1977,p 121-122

Peninsulas of Turkey

Main peninsulas	Anadolu (Anatolia) Trakya (Thrace)

Peninsulas in Thrace	Çatalca Gelibolu

Peninsulas in Anatolia	Kocaeli Armutlu Kapıdağ Biga Karaburun Dilek Bodrum Datça Bozburun Çukurbağ

Related Geographical Features	Capes of Turkey Bays of Turkey

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Peninsulas of Turkey