Baja Peninsula
A Mexican peninsula extending into the Pacific Ocean from the southern end of the U.S. state of California, the Baja Peninsula provides some of Mexico's most dramatic sea and landscapes.
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Baja California
Baja California state is the northern half of the Baja Peninsula.
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Baja California Sur is the southern half of the Baja Peninsula.
Baja Peninsula
- Peninsula
- Description: peninsula of North America on the Pacific Coast of Mexico
- Also known as“Baja”“Baja California”“Baja California peninsula”“La Baja California”“Lower California”“Lower California peninsula”“Península de la Baja California”
- Location
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Latitude of center
28° north
Longitude of center
-113.5° or 113° 30′ west
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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”
- Bengali: “বাহা ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া উপদ্বীপ”
- 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”
- Estonian: “Baja California poolsaar”
- Estonian: “California poolsaar”
- Faroese: “Baja Kalifornia hálvoyggin”
- Finnish: “Kalifornian niemimaa”
- 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”
- Kazakh: “Kalïfornïya tübegi”
- Kazakh: “Калифорния түбегі”
- Kazakh: “كالىيفورنىييا تۇبەگى”
- Kirghiz: “Төмөнкү Калифорния”
- Korean: “깔리포르니아 반도”
- Korean: “바하 칼리포르니아 반도”
- 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”
- Mongolian: “Калифорнийн хойг”
- 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: “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: “Península de Baja California”
- Spanish: “Peninsula 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: “جزیرہ نما باخا کیلیفورنیا”
- Urdu: “زیریں کیلی فورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Kaliforniya”
- Vietnamese: “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”
- “ma palisa Kaliponja”
- “ma palisa Paka Kaliponja”
- “ma palisa pi ma Kaliponja anpa”
- “বাহা কালিফোর্নিয়া উপদ্বীপ”
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