Armutlu Peninsula density in the mountains at the inner peninsula is low, where there are only small villages. Both gulfs at the north and the south are actually on two active tectonic fault lines. The entire peninsula was hit by the İzmit earthquake on August 17, 1999 that occurred along the western portion of the North Anatolian Fault Zone. Armutlu Peninsula Armutlu Peninsula () is a peninsula extending westward into Marmara Sea in the Anatolian section of Turkey. In addition to Yalova Province, parts of Kocaeli Province and Bursa Province are on the peninsula. Armutlu Peninsula is between Gulf of Izmit in
Shandong Peninsula Shandong Peninsula The Shandong Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong province in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The waters bordering the peninsula are Laizhou Bay to the northwest, which opens into the Bohai Sea to the north, which in turn passes through the Bohai Strait to the northeast into the Yellow Sea to the east and south. The peninsula's territory comprises three prefecture-level cities of Shandong province: Qingdao in the southwest, Yantai in the north and centre, and Weihai at the eastern tip. The Kiautschou Bay concession was a