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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 .
Gulf – a very large bay, often a top-level division of an ocean or sea; Fjord – a long bay with steep sides, typically formed by a glacier; Bight – a bay that ...
It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...
He fretted as Trump declared Feb. 9 to be Gulf of America Day, saying it was part of restoring "American pride in the history of American greatness," and as the U.S. Board on Geographic Names ...
A gulf is a arm of an ocean or sea into a landmass, typically (though not always) with a narrower opening than a bay. The term was used traditionally for large, highly indented navigable bodies of salt water that are enclosed by the coastline. [ 1 ]
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
But I want to recognize that language — from the meaning of the word “censorship” to the name of the Gulf — is at the very heart of Trump’s scorched-earth approach to governance, and ...
For centuries, the Gulf of Mexico has been recognized by that name—derived from the term Mexica (the Nahuatl name for the Aztecs [3]).It began to be used on early European maps already in 1550, [1] [4] [5] and the name soon became established in international cartography and legal usage by bodies such as the International Hydrographic Organization.