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Gulf of Tunis in Tunisia Map of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland. 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 Persian Gulf, [a] sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, [b] is a mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. [1] [2] It is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz.
The Gulf of California is divided into three faunal regions: Northern, Central, and Southern. [citation needed] One recognized transition zone is termed the Southwestern Baja California peninsula. Transition zones exist between faunal regions, and they usually vary for each individual species.
The Arabian Peninsula is located in the continent of Asia and is bounded by (clockwise) the Persian Gulf on the north-east, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman on the east, the Arabian Sea on the south-east, the Gulf of Aden, and the Guardafui Channel on the south, and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait on the south-west and the Red Sea, which is ...
Gulf of Oman, between the southeastern Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan and Arabian Sea. Panay Gulf, in the Western Visayas, Philippines; Persian Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula; Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan; Ragay Gulf in the Philippines; Gulf of Tartary between Russia and Sakhalin; Gulf of Thailand just south of ...
The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters.The definition and number of oceans can vary depending on the adopted criteria. The principal divisions (in descending order of area) of the five oceans are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antarctic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean.
In 2012, Iran threatened to take legal action against Google over its decision to drop the term "Persian Gulf" from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and the Arabian peninsula ...
A peninsula may be bordered by more than one body of water, and the body of water does not have to be an ocean or a sea. [10] A piece of land on a very tight river bend or one between two rivers is sometimes said to form a peninsula, for example in the New Barbadoes Neck in New Jersey, United States. [8]