is africa a peninsula?

Question

since three sides of it are bordered by water

Answer 1

If you consider that the 'larger body of land' is Eurasia, then I think that Africa definitely fits the definition of a peninsula. However, Africa is definitely a continent, and therefore cannot be a peninsula.

For the same reason, even though Australia is sometimes called 'the island continent', it is a continent, and therefore not an island. The same goes for Antarctica.

The largest island is Greenland; not any of the continents.

Answer 2

Is Africa A Peninsula

Answer 3

Yes Africa is a peninsula and Australia is an island and Greenland is a continent, but since no one lives there no one complains.

South America is a peninsula too, but since Central America got the isthmus thing, they opted for the larger... continent classification.

Antarctica is the real problem here though, they're kinda like the Pluto if the continent world. They're way to small to be one but everybody thinks penguins are so swell that it just got in the club, so to speak, on it's cuteness, never mind the fact that
you'll freeze your nay-nay's of in July.

The truth is NO Africa is not a peninsula.

Answer 4

I agree with Mez; Africa was a peninsula until the Suez canal was dug. Now it's a man made island. Distinctions between islands, continents, isthmus and peninsulas are arbitrary. Is Aussie a small continent or a big island? Likewise Greenland and Antarctica. Are Arabia, India and Indochina all peninsulas? And Europe is only separated from Asia by a range of hills about 3000 feet high. Russians call them mountains because Russia is mostly flat, but here in NZ we'd call the Urals hills.

Answer 5

This is an excellent question! Indeed, the word "peninsula" comes from the latin words meaning almost an island. Whether it is a continent is irrelevant. The only connection to another land mass was removed when the Suez Canal was created. So, technically speaking, Africa is a man-made island, whereas it was naturally a peninsula.

Answer 6

The Horn of Ethiopia is a peninsula, but Africa is a Continent. Africa is surrounded by water except for the narrow stretch of land connecting it to Asia Minor (Isreal and Saudi Arabia)

Answer 7

You can use Special Relativity to answer your question:
Australia is an island, a big island...
Greenland is a small continent.
Greenland is an archipelago
Greenland is an iceberg.
South America was a peninsula, but the Panama Channel change that.
The Mediterranean was a lake but after the Suez Channel, now is a strait.
Pluto and Charon are a dwarf double planet
The Sun and Jupiter are a double star.

Answer 8

I suppose in the very technical sense it can be considered one but Africa is so large that it warrants being called a continent. A peninsula is generally thought of as something smaller; something that is a smaller part of a continent. Like Florida or Spain and Portugal.

Answer 9

A definition of peninsula is:

"a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides."

Africa is not an "extention" of any larger land even though it is surrounded by water on three sides. It is a continent.

Answer 10

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No. Yes, there are a lot of peninsulas including the Arabian Peninsula, Sinai (Egypt), Malaysia, Nova Scotia (Canada), Denmark, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, etc..