The Chonhar Peninsula (Russian and Ukrainian: Чонгар; Crimean Tatar: Çonğar)[1] is on the northern coast of the Syvash, and in the Kherson province of Ukraine.
[2] Administratively, the whole peninsula houses the Chonhar rural community of Henichesk Raion.
The Chonhar Peninsula has one of the three main road connections between Crimea and mainland Europe, the others being on the Perekop Isthmus to the west and the Arabat Spit to the east.
The Novooleksiivka–Dzhankoi railway line runs over a bridge and embankment across the lagoon near the village of Syvash.
Chonhar Peninsula was occupied by Russian forces during the Russo-Ukrainian War.