GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Spain and Portugal are located on which peninsula?
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Italian
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Crimean
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Iberian
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Jutland
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Iberian Peninsula, peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal. Its name derives from its ancient inhabitants whom the Greeks called Iberians, probably for the Ebro (Iberus), the peninsula’s second longest river (after the Tagus).
Detailed explanation-2: -Major modern countries The current political configuration of the Iberian Peninsula comprises the bulk of Portugal and Spain, the whole microstate of Andorra, a small part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales (French Cerdagne), and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Kingdom of Spain is a country whose territory is mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula, in the far south-west of Europe.
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