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List of gulfs

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List of gulfs

A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea. Not all geological features which could be considered a gulf have "Gulf" in the name, for example the Bay of Bengal or Arabian Sea.

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The term may refer to:

  • Gulf of Aden, off the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula
  • Gulf of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean south of the state of Alaska
  • Ambracian Gulf
  • Amundsen Gulf in the Arctic Ocean northwest of Canada
  • Gulf of Aqaba in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to Israel and Jordan
  • Argolic Gulf
  • Gulf of Bahrain, part of the Persian Gulf
  • Gulf of Bothnia, part of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland
  • Gulf of Cádiz, part of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern border of Spain and Portugal
  • Gulf of California in the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Mexico
  • Gulf of Carpentaria a large bay off northern Australia
  • Gulf of Cazones a large gulf in southern Cuba
  • Gulf of Corinth, which extends into Greece from the Mediterranean
  • Gulf of Corryvreckan in Scotland
  • Davao Gulf in the Philippines
  • Exmouth Gulf
  • Gulf of the Farallones, westward from the opening of the San Francisco Bay and Drakes Bay to the Farallon Islands
  • Gulf of Finland, between the southern coast of Finland and the northern coast of Estonia in the Baltic Sea. It leads to the port of St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Gulf of Fonseca
  • Gulf of Gabès
  • Gulf of Genoa inside the Ligurian Sea on the northwestern coast of Italy
  • Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Equatorial Africa
  • Gulf of Hammamet
  • Hauraki Gulf, part of the Pacific Ocean between the Auckland region and the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island
  • Gulf of İzmir in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. It was formerly called the Gulf of Smyrna
  • Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea, formerly known as the Gulf of Cambay
  • Gulf of Kuşadası
  • Gulf of Kutch in the Arabian Sea
  • Lingayen Gulf, off western Luzon, the Philippines, in the South China Sea
  • Gulf of Lion, a bay on the Mediterranean coastline of Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France
  • Gulf of Maine, off the State of Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean
  • Malian Gulf
  • Gulf of Mannar, between India and Sri Lanka
  • Gulf of Mexico, between Mexico, the United States, and Cuba
  • Gulf of Morbihan, a natural harbor on the coast of the Département of Morbihan in the south of Brittany
  • Gulf of Nicoya, in Costa Rica. Central America.
  • Gulf of Odessa
  • Gulf of Oman, between the southeastern Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan and Arabian Sea.
  • Gulf of Oristano, near Oristano on the Western Sardinian coast
  • Gulf of Panama in the Pacific Ocean south of Panama
  • Persian Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
  • Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea
  • Gulf of Roses, the most northeastern bay on the Catalan coast
  • Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary and the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean
  • Gulf St Vincent, Separated from Spencer Gulf by the Yorke Peninsula
  • Gulf of Sidra, just north of Libya in the Mediterranean
  • Spencer Gulf, near Port Lincoln, South Australia
  • Gulf of Suez in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to the Suez Canal
  • Gulf of Thailand just south of Thailand in the Indian Ocean
  • Gulf of Tonkin just east of North Vietnam in the Pacific Ocean
  • Gulf of Tunis in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia

    • References

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