GB

GB or Gb may refer to:

Places

• United Kingdom (ISO 3166-1 code)
  • Great Britain, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
  • Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom
• Gilgit-Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan
• Guinea-Bissau, a sovereign state in West Africa
• Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
• Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States

Businesses and organisations

• GB Airways
• Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies
• Girls' Brigade, a Christian organization for girls
• Grande Bibliothèque, a large public library in Montreal
• University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, an American university
• ABX Air (IATA airline designator GB)
• GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company
• Griesedieck Brothers beer, an American beer brand
• GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain that was eventually taken over by Carrefour

Science and technology

Computing and electronics

• Gigabit (Gb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
• Gigabyte (GB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
• Gain–bandwidth product, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth
• Game Boy line, a line of handheld video game consoles
• Guobiao standards, Chinese National Standards
  • GB 2312, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters
  • GB 18030, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters
• GB fan, a wikipedian who does not like acronyms. In 2017-19, GB reverted and blocked dozens of socks of an acronym lover.

Military technology

• Beechcraft GB Traveler, the U.S. Navy version of the Model 17 Staggerwing aircraft
• Steyr GB, an Austrian semi-automatic handgun
• Sarin (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas
• GB-1, a World War II American glide bomb

Other uses in science and technology

• Ganglion blocker, a medication that inhibits transmission between preganglionic and postganglionic neurons
• Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA
• Government and binding theory, in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky
• Guillain–Barré syndrome, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy

Sport

• Great Britain at the Olympics, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom
• Green Bay Packers, an American football team
• Games behind, a number used in sport statistics to reflect the gap between two teams

Other uses

• Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
• G♭ (musical note)
  • G-flat major, a key

See also

• BG (disambiguation)
• Gigabyte (disambiguation)