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A gulf is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea.
'Gulf or The Gulf may also refer to:
Geographic locales
See also: List of gulfs
- Gulf of Mexico, large body of water adjacent to the United States and Mexico
- Persian Gulf, body of water between Iran (also known as Persia) and the Arabian Peninsula
- "Gulf countries" or "The Gulf", terms for Arab states of the Persian Gulf
- In Australia:
- Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
- Gulf Country, the region surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
- In Canada:
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence, outlet of the St. Lawrence River and the North American Great Lakes
- Gulf Islands, in the Strait of Georgia
- Gulf Shore, Nova Scotia, community in Cumberland County
- In Mexico:
- Gulf of California, body of water separating Baja California from the rest of Mexico
- In New Zealand:
- Gulf Harbour, a development on Whangaparaoa Peninsula near Auckland
- Hauraki Gulf, body of water in the North Island of New Zealand
- In Papua New Guinea:
- In the Philippines:
- Silicon Gulf, a nickname for Davao City and region in southern Mindanao
- In the United States:
- Great Gulf, a glacial cirque located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
- Gulf, California, unincorporated place
- Gulf City, Florida, town site in Hillsborough County
- Gulf County, Florida
- Gulf Harbors, Florida, an unincorporated urban community in western Pasco County
- Gulf, North Carolina, census-designated place
Organizations
- Gulf Air, the principal flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain
- Gulf FM (disambiguation), various radio stations
- Gulf Oil, oil company
- Gulf Power Company, American investor-owned electric utility
- Gulf and Western Industries, American conglomerate
Other
- Gulf (novella), by Robert A. Heinlein (1949)
- The Gulf (play), 2010/2015 play by Audrey Cefaly
- The Gulf Freeway, Interstate 45 in Houston, Texas, United States
- Gulf High School (Florida), a four-year public high school in New Port Richey
- Gulf house, a type of farmhouse that emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries in North Germany
- Gulf of evaluation, the degree to which the system/artifact provides representations that can be directly perceived and interpreted in terms of the expectations and intentions of the user in computer sciences
- Gulf of execution, a term usually used in human computer interaction to describe the gap between a user's goal for action and the means to execute that goal
- Gulf Stream, a maritime current
- Gulf War (1990–91)
- JWA Gulf, the Gulf Oil-sponsored 1960s and 1970s motorracing team of John Wyer
Related disambiguation pages
- Grand Gulf (disambiguation)
- Gulf Building (disambiguation)
- Gulf Cup (disambiguation)
- Gulf states (disambiguation)
- Gulf University (disambiguation)
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