English word senses marked with place category "Gulfs"
Parent categories: Bodies of water, Places, Ecosystems, Landforms, Water, Names, Ecology, Earth, Liquids, Biology, Nature, Matter, Sciences, Chemistry
Total 32 word senses
- Arabian Gulf (Proper name) Red Sea, the body of water between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula.
- Azov (Proper name) Ellipsis of Sea of Azov: A sea and gulf of the Black Sea, Europe.
- Bay of Biscay (Proper name) A gulf of the North Atlantic Ocean along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain.
- Berdiansk (Proper name) A bay, a gulf of the Sea of Azov, Black Sea, Eurasia between the spits of Berdiansk and Obytochna
- Corinthian Gulf (Proper name) Synonym of Gulf of Corinth
- Coronation Gulf (Proper name) A gulf that lies between Victoria Island and mainland Nunavut, Canada.
- Fonseca (Proper name) A gulf bordering El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua
- Gulf (Proper name) The Persian Gulf, or the region surrounding it.
- Gulf of Aden (Proper name) A gulf between Yemen and Somalia, connected to the Somali Sea through the Guardafui Channel.
- Gulf of Alaska (Proper name) An arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east
- Gulf of Bothnia (Proper name) The northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, separating the countries of Sweden and Finland.
- Gulf of California (Proper name) a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland
- Gulf of Carpentaria (Proper name) A gulf on the northern coast of Australia, bordering the Northern Territory to the west, and Queensland to the east.
- Gulf of Corinth (Proper name) an inlet of the Ionian Sea, between the Peloponnese and western mainland Greece.
- Gulf of Finland (Proper name) An arm of the Baltic Sea that separates the European countries of Estonia and Finland. On its eastern end, the Neva at the Russian city of St. Petersburg empties into it.
- Gulf of Gaeta (Proper name) a gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea, bound by Cape Circeo and Ischia
- Gulf of Guinea (Proper name) Part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa.
- Gulf of Lion (Proper name) A gulf of the Mediterranean Sea, reaching from Catalonia to Toulon.
- Gulf of Mexico (Proper name) A gulf to the south of the United States, to the east and north of Mexico, and to the north of Cuba.
- Gulf of Naples (Proper name) A gulf of the Mediterranean Sea, located along the coast of Campania in Italy.
- Gulf of Oman (Proper name) A gulf in the Indian Ocean that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf.
- Gulf of Riga (Proper name) The inland body of water that is part of the Baltic Sea in eastern Europe and is near Latvia and Estonia.
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Proper name) A gulf in eastern Canada, on the shores of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, between the Saint Lawrence River and Atlantic Ocean.
- Gulf of Thailand (Proper name) An inland body of water in the Pacific Ocean that is southeast of Southeast Asia below the countries of Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia, and is close to the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia.
- Gulf of Venice (Proper name) A wide gulf at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, bound on the south by the line between Maestra Point in the Po delta and Cape Kamenjak on the Istrian Peninsula.
- Hudson Bay (Proper name) A gulf of Nunavut, Canada, a southern extension of the Arctic Ocean. A large arctic sea, surrounded on three sides, by Quebec on the east, Nunavut to the west, Manitoba to the southwest, Ontario on the south, and extending southeast becoming James Bay. To the north lies the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
- James Bay (Proper name) A gulf of Nunavut, Canada, at the southern end of Hudson Bay, Arctic Ocean. A large sub-arctic sea surrounded on three sides by land of Ontario (on the west and south) and Quebec (on the east and south), the southernmost extension of the Arctic Ocean.
- Persian Gulf (Proper name) The gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
- Saronic Gulf (Proper name) A gulf of Greece, part of the Aegean Sea, in the region of which Athens is located.
- Spencer Gulf (Proper name) A gulf off the Great Australian Bight in South Australia, between the Eyre Peninsula and Yorke Peninsula.
- Thermaic Gulf (Proper name) A gulf off the coast of Greece, an arm of the Aegean Sea.
- Tonkin (Proper name) Short for Gulf of Tonkin, a gulf in northern Vietnam.
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