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Baja Peninsula

A Mexican peninsula extending into the Pacific Ocean from the southern end of the US state of , Baja California provides some of 's most dramatic sea and landscapes.
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  • Type: Peninsula
  • Description: peninsula of North America on the Pacific Coast of Mexico
  • Also known as: “Baja”, “Baja California”, “Baja California peninsula”, “Baja peninsula”, “La Baja California”, “Lower California”, “Lower California peninsula”, and “Península de la Baja California”

Baja Peninsula

Latitude
28° north
Longitude
-113.5° or 113° 30′ west
Elevation
186 metres (610 feet)
Open location code
75W82G22+22
Geo­Names ID
4017701
Wiki­data ID
Q178543
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baja Peninsula” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Neder-Kalifornië”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة باخا كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة كاليفورنيا”
  • Armenian: “Կալիֆոռնիա”
  • Asturian: “Península de Baxa California”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaliforniya yarımadası”
  • Bashkir: “Калифорния (ярымутрау)”
  • Bashkir: “Калифорния”
  • Basque: “Kaliforniako penintsula”
  • Belarusian: “Каліфорнія”
  • Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Каліфорнія”
  • Bengali: “বাজা ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Donja Kalifornija”
  • Breton: “Ledenez Baja California”
  • Bulgarian: “Долна Калифорния”
  • Catalan: “Península de Baixa Califòrnia”
  • Catalan: “Península de Califòrnia”
  • Catalan: “Península de la Baixa Califòrnia”
  • Cebuano: “Baja California (lawis)”
  • Cebuano: “Baja California”
  • Chinese: “Península de Baja California”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亚”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亚半岛”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亞”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亞半島”
  • Chinese: “下加里福尼亞半島”
  • Chinese: “加利福尼亚半岛”
  • Chinese: “巴哈半島”
  • Croatian: “Baja California”
  • Czech: “Kalifornský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Californiske Halvø”
  • Dutch: “Baja California”
  • Dutch: “Baja-Californië”
  • Dutch: “Californisch schiereiland”
  • Dutch: “Neder-Californië”
  • Esperanto: “Baja California”
  • Esperanto: “Basa Kalifornio”
  • Esperanto: “Duoninsulo Baja California”
  • Esperanto: “Kalifornia duoninsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Kalifornia Duoninsulo”
  • Estonian: “Baja California poolsaar”
  • Estonian: “California poolsaar”
  • Faroese: “Baja Kalifornia hálvoyggin”
  • Finnish: “Kalifornian niemimaa”
  • French: “Peninsule de Basse-Californie”
  • French: “péninsule de Basse-Californie”
  • French: “Péninsule de Basse-Californie”
  • Galician: “Península de Baixa California”
  • Galician: “Península de California”
  • Georgian: “კალიფორნიის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Niederkalifornien”
  • Greek: “Χερσόνησος Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי באחה קליפורניה”
  • Hindi: “बाजा कैलिफ़ोर्निया प्रायद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Kaliforniai-félsziget”
  • Icelandic: “Baja California-skagi”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Baja California”
  • Interlingua: “Peninsula de Baja California”
  • Italian: “Penisola della Bassa California”
  • Italian: “Penisola della California”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Bassa California”
  • Japanese: “カリフォルニア半島”
  • Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア半島”
  • Japanese: “バハカリフォルニア半島”
  • Kazakh: “Kalïfornïya tübegi”
  • Kazakh: “Калифорния түбегі”
  • Kazakh: “كالىيفورنىييا تۇبەگى”
  • Kirghiz: “Төмөнкү Калифорния”
  • Korean: “깔리포르니아 반도”
  • Korean: “깔리포르니아반도”
  • Korean: “바하 칼리포르니아 반도”
  • Korean: “바하칼리포르니아반도”
  • Korean: “캘리포니아 반도”
  • Latin: “California Inferior (paeninsula)”
  • Latin: “California Inferior”
  • Latvian: “Kalifornijas pussala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalifornijos pusiasalis”
  • Macedonian: “Долна Калифорнија”
  • Macedonian: “Долнокалифорниски Полуостров”
  • Macedonian: “Калифорнија”
  • Macedonian: “Калифорниски Полуостров”
  • Mazanderani: “کالیفرنیای جزیره مونا”
  • Mazanderani: “کالیفورنیا جزیره مونا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Californiahalvøya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Californiske halvøy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den californiske halvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Californiahalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Californiahalvøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bassa Califòrnia”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੇਠਲਾ ਕੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਰਨੀਆ ਪਰਾਇਦੀਪ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਖ਼ਾ ਕੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਰਨੀਆ ਪਰਾਇਦੀਪ”
  • Persian: “شبه جزیره باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیرهٔ باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره باها کالیفرنیا”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Kalifornijski”
  • Portuguese: “Baja California”
  • Portuguese: “Península da Baixa Califórnia”
  • Portuguese: “Península da Baja California”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Baja California”
  • Russian: “Калифорнийский полуостров”
  • Russian: “Калифорния”
  • Serbian: “Donja Kalifornija”
  • Serbian: “Доња Калифорнија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Donja Kalifornija”
  • Slovak: “Dolná Kalifornia”
  • Slovak: “Kalifornský polostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Kalifornijski polotok”
  • Spanish: “Baja California”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula de Baja California”
  • Spanish: “Península de Baja California”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula de California”
  • Spanish: “península de California”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Baja Kalifornia”
  • Swedish: “Baja California”
  • Swedish: “Californiahalvön”
  • Swedish: “Southern California”
  • Tamil: “பாகா கலிபோர்னியா மூவலந்தீவு”
  • Tamil: “பாஜா கலிபோர்னியா தீபகற்பம்”
  • Tamil: “பாஹா கலிபோர்னியா தீபகற்பம்”
  • Tatar: “Калифорния”
  • Thai: “Baja California peninsula”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรบาฆากาลิฟอร์เนีย”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรบาฮากาลิฟอร์เนีย”
  • Turkish: “Baja California Yarımadası”
  • Ukrainian: “Каліфорнійський півострів”
  • Ukrainian: “Каліфорнія”
  • Ukrainian: “Нижня Каліфорнія”
  • Ukrainian: “Півострів Каліфорнія”
  • Urdu: “باجا کیلی فورنیا”
  • Urdu: “باجا کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما باخا کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “زیریں کیلی فورنیا”
  • Urdu: “زیریں کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Kaliforniya”
  • Vietnamese: “Baja California”
  • Vietnamese: “bán đảo Baja California”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Baja California”
  • Vietnamese: “bán đảo Hạ California”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạ California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Baja California”
  • Welsh: “Baja California”
  • Welsh: “Califfornia Isaf”
  • Welsh: “California Isaf”
  • Welsh: “Gorynys Baja California”
  • Western Frisian: “Kalifornysk Skiereilân”
  • Western Frisian: “Leech-Kalifornje”
  • Western Frisian: “Neder-Kalifornje”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ نما باجا کیلیفورنیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “下加利福尼亚半岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “下加利福尼亞半島”
  • “বাহা কালিফোর্নিয়া উপদ্বীপ”

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