A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into a landmass.

Gulf or the gulf may also refer to:

Places

  • Gulf Country, a region in Australia
  • Gulf Freeway, a highway in Texas, United States
  • Gulf, North Carolina, a census-designated place in the United States
  • Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean basin extending into southern North America
  • Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
  • Persian Gulf, arm of the Indian Ocean in Western Asia
  • Arab states of the Persian Gulf, group of Arab states which border the Persian Gulf

Arts and media

  • Gulf (film), 2017 Indian Telugu-language film
  • Gulf (novella), by Robert A. Heinlein (1949)
  • The Gulf (play), by Audrey Cefaly
  • The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, book by Jack E. Davis
  • The Gulf (TV series), New Zealand-set crime drama series

Businesses and organizations

  • Global University Leaders Forum, an organization within World Economic Forum
  • Gulf Air, the principal flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain
  • Gulf and Western Industries, an American conglomerate
  • Gulf Cartel, a criminal organisation in Mexico
  • Gulf FM (disambiguation), various radio stations
  • Gulf High School, a four-year public high school in New Port Richey, Florida
  • Gulf News, a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai
  • Gulf Oil, a major oil company from 1901 to 1985
  • Gulf Canada, a major Canadian oil company since 1906, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil
  • JWA Gulf, a Gulf Oil-sponsored motor racing team of John Wyer in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Gulf Power Company, an American investor-owned electric utility

Other uses

  • Gulf house, a type of farmhouse that emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries in North Germany
  • Gulf of evaluation, the degree to which a computer system provides representations that can be directly perceived and interpreted in terms of the expectations and intentions of the user
  • 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

See also

  • Arabian Gulf (disambiguation)
  • Gulf breeze (disambiguation)
  • Gulf Coast (disambiguation)
  • Grand Gulf (disambiguation)
  • Gulf Building (disambiguation)
  • Gulf Cup (disambiguation)
  • Gulf states (disambiguation)
  • Gulf University (disambiguation)
  • Golf (disambiguation)
  • Gulf Stream, a maritime current
  • Gulf War, 1990–91 war waged by coalition forces led by the United States against Iraq
  • Gulf Coast of the United States, the coastline along the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico
  • List of gulfs, a list of large bays and gulfs