Question

Spain and Portugal (circled on the map above) are located on the __________ Peninsula, a landform that is separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. A. Balkan B. Apennine C. Scandinavian D. Iberian

Answer 1

Iberian Peninsula ,which includes the countries of Andorra, Portugal and Spain, and the British Crown colony of Gibraltar.

Answer 2

Right answer: Iberian

The Iberian Peninsula is where Spain and Portugal are located, in addition this is a geographical region of the south-western Europe, a continent to which it is linked by a broad isthmus formed by the Pyrenees mountain range. It is separated from Africa (Morocco and Algeria) by the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Its name derives from its ancient inhabitants that the Greeks called Iberian, probably by the Ebro river (Iberus), the second longest river in this peninsula after the Tagus River.