The Mani Peninsula, known historically as Maina or Maïna, is a geographical and cultural region of southern Greece. The Mani is the central of three peninsulas that extend southward from the Peloponnese into the Mediterranean Sea. The Laconian Gulf and the peninsula of Epidaurus Limera are to the east; the Messenian Gulf and peninsula of Messenia are to the west. It terminates at Cape Matapan, the southernmost point of continental Greece.