Qatar is small, a pancake-flat peninsula less than half the size of Belgium.
Until oil and gas made it rich, beginning in the 1960s, this tiny, scalding, pancake-flat peninsula scarcely boasted a settled population, let alone a town of any size.
But if the virus spreads widely, it could cause devastating economic losses to this griddle-flat peninsula, which encompasses southern Delaware, eastern Maryland and a tiny piece of Virginia.
It is situated on a flat, dry peninsula at the island's northern tip.
The flat, triangular peninsula, with lengths ranging from 110 to 130 miles (180 to 210 km), averages about 7 feet (2 m) above sea level and owes its configuration largely to shore deposits of the Mekong River, which are also responsible for the sweeping spit of Cape Bai Bung at the peninsula's tip.
It lies near the head of the Persian Gulf at the northern end of a flat and narrow peninsula that is connected with the mainland by tidal marshes.
But sea level rise fueled by climate change threatens this flat, low-lying peninsula.
A short drive takes us across salt flats to the peninsula and views of the 42 arid islands of the Dampier archipelago.
And the Arabian peninsula is flat, open and easy to police in a crisis, as the war to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait proved.
It is found throughout Mexico and on the Baja peninsula on flats, lower mountain slopes, and along streams and arroyos.
Except in the north, where the Kanin Kamen runs northwest southeast, the peninsula is a flat, marshy, tundra plain of glacial and marine deposits.
