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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]

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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

Cambridge Gulf, on the north coast of Western Australia

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 Sea.

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 Honduras in the Caribbean Sea between Belize and Honduras

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 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

Persian Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula

Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan

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

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 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

Gulf of Venice, at the head of the Adriatic Sea between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia

References

1. ^https://www.britannica.com/science/gulf-coastal-feature
2. ^Earth's Coasts - Page 11 0778732061Bobbie 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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