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.[1][2]
List
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
- Albay Gulf, in the southern part of Luzon, Philippines
- Ambracian Gulf, of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece
- Amundsen Gulf, in the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Canada
- Gulf of Aqaba, in the northern end of the Red Sea
- Argolic Gulf, of the Aegean Sea off the east coast of the Peloponnese, Greece
- Asid Gulf, in the municipality of Milagros, Masbate, Philippines
- Gulf of Bahrain, inlet of the Persian Gulf on the east coast of Saudi Arabia
- Gulf of Biscay, between France and Spain
- Gulf of Boothia, in Nunavut, Canada
- Gulf of Bothnia, part of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland
- Gulf of Burgas, Black Sea, Bulgaria
- 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
- Cambridge Gulf, on the north coast of Western Australia
- Gulf of Carpentaria, in Northern Australia
- Gulf of Cazones, in southern Cuba
- Gulf of Corinth, of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece
- Gulf of Corryvreckan, off the west coast of mainland Scotland
- Davao Gulf, in Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines
- Exmouth Gulf, gulf in North West Australia
- Gulf of the Farallones, between the Farallon Islands and the mainland coast of California, United States
- Gulf of Finland, between the southern coast of Finland and the northern coast of Estonia in the Baltic Sea
- Gulf of Fonseca, of the Pacific Ocean in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
- Gulf of Gabès, gulf on Tunisia's east coast in the Mediterranean Sea, off North Africa
- Gulf of Genoa, inside the Ligurian Sea on the northwestern coast of Italy
- Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Haiti
- Gulf of Guinea, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Equatorial Africa
- Gulf of Hammamet, in northeastern Tunisia
- Hauraki Gulf, of the North Island of New Zealand
- Gulf of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea between Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras
- Gulf Islands close to Vancouver Island and within the Strait of Georgia within British Columbia
- Gulf of İzmir in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece
- Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea, formerly known as the Gulf of Cambay
- Gulf of Kuşadası
- Gulf of Kutch in the Arabian Sea
- Lagonoy Gulf in the Philippines
- Leyte Gulf, in Eastern Visayas, Philippines
- 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 States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in the United States, and the Canadian Provinces of 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
- Panay Gulf, in the Western Visayas, Philippines
- Gulf of Paria, in the Caribbean Sea between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
- Persian Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
- Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan
- Ragay Gulf in the Philippines
- 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 Salerno, which extends from Amalfi to Paestum across Salerno.
- Saronic Gulf, which extends into Greece from the Aegean Sea.
- Gulf of Sirte, 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 Taranto in the Mediterranean between the toe and the heel of Italy
- Gulf of Tartary between Russia and Sakhalin
- Gulf of Thailand just south of Thailand in the Pacific Ocean South China Seas
- Gulf of Tonkin just east of North Vietnam in the Pacific Ocean
- Gulf of Tunis in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia
- Gulf of Varna, Black Sea, Bulgaria
- Gulf of Venice, at the head of the Adriatic Sea between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
- Moro Gulf, the largest gulf in the Philippines off the coast of Mindanao
References
- ↑ "Gulf | Definition, Characteristics, & Facts".
- ↑ Earth's Coasts - Page 11 0778732061 Bobbie Kalman - 2008 A bay is an area of the ocean where the land curves inward. A cove is a small bay A gulf is a big, deep area of ocean that has land almost all around it. This gulf is the Gulf of Mexico. A strait is a narrow inlet of water that flows between two ...
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