GB, or Gb may refer to:

Places

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  • United Kingdom (ISO 3166-1 code), a sovereign country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
  • Great Britain, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
  • Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom
  • Gilgit-Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan
  • Guinea-Bissau, a sovereign state in West Africa
  • Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
  • Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States

Businesses and organisations

  • GB Airways, a British airline
  • Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies
  • Girls' Brigade, a Christian organization for girls
  • Grande Bibliothèque, a large public library in Montreal
  • University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, an American university
  • ABX Air (IATA airline designator GB), a cargo airline
  • GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company
  • Griesedieck Brothers beer, an American beer brand
  • GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain that was eventually taken over by Carrefour
  • GB News, a British television news channel

Science and technology

Computing and electronics

  • Gigabit (Gb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
  • Gigabyte (GB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
  • Gain–bandwidth product, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth
  • Game Boy, a handheld video game console
  • Guobiao standards, Chinese National Standards
  • GB 2312, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters; also has partial support for Traditional, and some other languages, though in practice web browser support it as (i.e. with full support):
  • GB 18030, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters, but with full support for Traditional, and all languages Unicode supports, since it is a full Unicode Transformation Format

Military technology

  • Beechcraft GB Traveler, U.S. Navy aircraft
  • Steyr GB, an Austrian semi-automatic handgun
  • Sarin (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas
  • GB-1, a World War II American glide bomb
  • GB PGB, a series of Chinese precision guided bombs

Other uses in science and technology

  • Ganglion blocker, a medication
  • Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA
  • Gilbert (unit) (Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English physicist William Gilbert
  • Government and binding theory, in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky
  • Guillain–Barré syndrome, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy

Sport

  • Great Britain at the Olympics, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom
  • Green Bay Packers, an American football team
  • Games behind, a number reflecting the gap between two sports teams

People

  • GB (footballer), (full name Gabriel Souza da Silva), Brazilian association footballer
  • Guy Bomford, who also published as G.B.

Other uses

  • Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
  • Voiced labial–velar plosive, a consonant sound transcribed as
  • G♭ (musical note), a semitone
  • G-flat major, a key
  • Group buy, buying something as a collective
  • Gazerbeam, a fictional deceased superhero in the animated film The Incredibles
  • Goin' Bulilit, Philippine television show

See also

  • BG (disambiguation)
  • Gigabyte (disambiguation)
  • GBS (disambiguation)