Leizhou Peninsula | |||||||||||||||||
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![]() A satellite image of the peninsula | |||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 雷州半岛 | ||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 雷州半島 | ||||||||||||||||
Postal | Leichow Peninsula | ||||||||||||||||
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The Leizhou Peninsula, alternately romanized as the Luichow Peninsula, is a peninsula in the southernmost part of Guangdong province in South China. As of 2015, the population of the peninsula was 5,694,245. [1] The largest city by population and area on the peninsula is Zhanjiang.