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Bay of Bengal
Bay of Bengal: triangular northern arm of the Indian Ocean between India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar; seasonally reversing monsoon currents, strong freshwater barrier layer, low productivity, and the world's deadliest tropical cyclone coast; BIMSTEC's namesake sea.
Buli Bay
Buli Bay (Teluk Buli, Baai van Boeli) is a bay on the east coast of Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, between the Eastern and Southeastern Peninsulas; its port at Maba serves East Halmahera's nickel industry.
Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay (銅鑼灣) is a retail district on northern Hong Kong Island in Wan Chai District, shaped by reclamation including the 1908 Tai Koo dockyard scheme, home to the 18-hectare Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter and its 2022 revitalised waterfront precinct, served by historic trams, and site of the last cleared 2014 Occupy camp.
Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf (Tagalook) is a gulf in southeastern Mindanao, Philippines, bounded by Davao City and the Davao Region. Over 1,200 fish species, dugongs, whale sharks; annual June-August closed season since 2014 protects small pelagic fisheries.
East Korea Bay
East Korea Bay is a bay on North Korea's eastern coast, opening onto the East Sea (Sea of Japan), distinct from Korea Bay on the Yellow Sea side; labeled on U.S. military and NOAA maps and an SST anomaly hot spot.
G-Land
G-Land (Plengkung, Grajagan Bay) is a world-class left-hand reef point break at Java's southeastern tip in Alas Purwo National Park, Indonesia. Sections Kongs, Money Trees, Launching Pads, Speedies; season April–October; discovered 1972; first surf camp 1974.
Gulf of Alexandretta
The Gulf of Alexandretta, also known as the Gulf of İskenderun, is a shallow, semi-enclosed bay at the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean on the southeastern coast of Turkey.
Gulf of Anadyr (Анадырский залив)
Gulf of Anadyr (Анадырский залив), a northwestern Bering Sea gulf off Chukotka at the Anadyr River mouth; source of the Anadyr Current, dense shelf water, polynyas, and a highly productive diatom plume feeding the western Arctic.
Gulf of Khambhat
Gulf of Khambhat (Gulf of Cambay), a funnel-shaped gulf of the Arabian Sea between Saurashtra and mainland Gujarat, India; semi-diurnal tides up to about 11 m, currents near 3 m/s, Narmada, Tapti, and Sabarmati river discharge, historic port of Cambay, and the proposed Kalpasar dam project.
Gulf of Kutch
Gulf of Kutch (Gulf of Kachchh), an Arabian Sea inlet in Gujarat, India, between Kutch and Saurashtra; 7,350 sq km, macrotidal, with India's first marine national park, northernmost coral reefs, and Kandla and Mundra ports.
Gulf of Mannar
The Gulf of Mannar is a shallow 10,500 km² bay between Tamil Nadu, India and Sri Lanka, part of the Laccadive Sea. A 1989 biosphere reserve and 2001 UNESCO MAB site with 21 coral islands, dugongs, and rich marine biodiversity.
Gulf of Martaban
The Gulf of Mottama, also known as the Gulf of Martaban, is a large muddy embayment in southern Myanmar where the Sittaung River meets the Andaman Sea.
Gulf of Thailand
Gulf of Thailand, formerly Gulf of Siam: semi-enclosed 320,000 km2 bay of the South China Sea bordered by Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Vietnam, up to 85 m deep, with monsoon-reversing circulation, major fisheries, and offshore oil and gas.
Gulf of Tomini
Gulf of Tomini (Teluk Tomini, Tomini Bay): deep semi-enclosed gulf between Sulawesi's northern and eastern arms, opening to the Moluku Sea; borders Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and Central Sulawesi; contains the Togean Islands and fisheries assessed under EAFM.
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin (Vịnh Bắc Bộ; 北部湾, Beibu Gulf), a shallow semi-enclosed arm of the northwestern South China Sea between Vietnam and Hainan, China; about 128,800 km², delimited by a 2000 China–Vietnam agreement in force 2004, and a major shared fishery.
Hạ Long Bay
Hạ Long Bay (Vịnh Hạ Long), northeastern Viet Nam, Gulf of Tonkin bay of limestone tower karst; UNESCO World Heritage 1994, 2000, extended 2023 with Cat Ba Archipelago; 65,650 ha, 1,133 islands, heavy tourism and conservation pressure.
Hangzhou Bay (杭州湾)
Hangzhou Bay (杭州湾) is a funnel-shaped tidal bay on China's east coast, the Qiantang River estuary known for its tidal bore and 36 km bridge.
Jakarta Bay
Jakarta Bay is a shallow bay on the northwest coast of Java, Indonesia, immediately north of Jakarta, receiving untreated wastewater from about 20 million people and 2,050 industries.
Kamchatka Gulf
Kamchatka Gulf (Камчатский залив), gulf of the Pacific on eastern Kamchatka, Russia; northernmost Pacific-coast gulf, about 148 km long, 74 km wide, up to 2000 m deep at the entrance, near the Kamchatka River mouth.
Kandla Port
Kandla Port (Deendayal Port Authority), a major Indian government seaport in Kandla Creek, 90 km inside the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat; founded after Partition to replace Karachi; handled 150.16 MMT in FY2024-25 and a record 160.11 Mt in FY2025-26, ranking second to Paradip among major ports, with Mundra as its nearby private rival.
Kao Bay
Kao Bay (Kau Bay, Teluk Kao), a 470-m-deep pear-shaped silled marine basin between the northern arms of Halmahera, Indonesia; poorly ventilated, anoxic sediments, El Niño-driven deep-water renewal, glacial freshwater-lake phase, mercury and arsenic in fish.
Korea Bay
Korea Bay (서해 북부) is the northeastern embayment of the Yellow Sea, below China's Liaodong Peninsula between Liaoning and North Korea. The Yalu River enters it at Dandong; drift ice up to 35 cm forms there in winter.
Kronotsky Gulf
Kronotsky Gulf (Кроноцкий залив), a Pacific gulf on eastern Kamchatka between the Shipunsky and Kronotsky peninsulas, 68.5 km long, up to 1,500 m deep, with a major Holocene tsunami record and pollock spawning canyons.
Leyte Gulf
Leyte Gulf: gulf in Eastern Visayas, Philippines, between Leyte and Samar islands, 2,724 sq km; site of the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, and of Typhoon Haiyan's 2013 storm surge.
Manila Bay
Manila Bay (Look at the bay, Look at Manila) is a semi-enclosed estuary and natural harbor on Luzon, Philippines, site of Dewey's 1898 defeat of the Spanish fleet, 1944 fighting, and modern reclamation and rehabilitation programs.
Peter the Great Gulf (Залив Петра Великого)
Peter the Great Gulf (Залив Петра Великого), also called Peter the Great Bay, is a large gulf on Russia's southern Primorsky Krai coast in the Sea of Japan, extending 185 km from the Tumen River to Cape Povorotny, containing Vladivostok, freezing December to mid-April, and claimed by Russia as a historical bay.
Ragay Gulf
Ragay Gulf: deep triangular embayment in southeastern Luzon, Philippines, between Quezon and Camarines Sur provinces; about 3,900 km2, 600 m deep, on the Philippine Fault, a Key Biodiversity Area and major fishing ground.
Sacheon (사천)
Sacheon (사천, 泗川市) is a rural-urban city in southwestern South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, formed in 1995 by merging Samcheonpo City and Sacheon County; Sacheon Bay splits it, with fisheries, aerospace industry, and 108,504 residents in 2024.
Sakhalin Gulf
Sakhalin Gulf (Sakhalinski Zaliv), a gulf of the Sea of Okhotsk between mainland Russia and the Schmidt Peninsula of northern Sakhalin Island, up to 160 km wide, ice-covered mid-November to late April, receiving most Amur River discharge.
Shelikhov Gulf
Shelikhov Gulf (залив Шелихова), largest gulf of the Sea of Okhotsk between mainland Asia and Kamchatka; 650 km long, up to 350 m deep, tides to 12.9 m, ice-covered December to May, named for explorer Grigory Shelikhov.