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.

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
• 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
• 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
• 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

See also

• Guba, a Russian word (Russian: Губа) for gulf