I don't know if there is any specific criteria. The "Red Sea" has been called that for thousands of years, and if someone would decide to change it to the "Red Gulf", he would be chased out of town on a rail. The Red Sea does have two subsidiary gulfs, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. On the other hand, the much larger Carriabean (sic) Sea has the rather large subsidiary, the Gulf of Mexico.
2007-08-17 17:44:12
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answered by cattbarf 7
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A gulf is a part of the ocean that is partly surrounded by land. A gulf cuts into the shoreline. It is similar to a bay, but a gulf goes farther inland than a bay does. A gulf is also bigger than a bay.
Sea is a subdivision of an ocean. All seas except “inland seas” are physically interconnected parts of the earth's total saltwater system.
2007-08-17 17:38:01
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answered by vkare 1
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a gulf is a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land. I don't have my geography book with me but the red sea might very well be a gulf.
2007-08-17 17:36:21
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answered by Anonymous
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A gulf is a smaller body of water that is surrounded on three sides by land the water is usually calmer. To where a sea is very open and can be very rough
2007-08-17 17:35:55
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answered by buddybrickmason 2
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Hi Isobrian,
In my study of geography, it has always seemed to me that many of these bodies of water are misnamed. For example, Hudson Bay is really a great semi-inland sea that is part of the Arctic Ocean. The Caspian and Aral Seas are misnamed, as they are really just salty inland lakes. If you look at a map of the Arctic Ocean, you'll see this sea and that sea, which really don't look like seas at all, but just like part of the ocean.
The seas and bays and gulfs of geography are rather loosely, and perhaps carelessly, defined.
James :-)
2007-08-17 20:18:48
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answered by ? 3
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A gulf is an arm of the sea(or ocean) extending into the land and partly covered by the land and sea is an arm of the ocean partially enclosed by land.A big saline lake is also called as sea.Example:-Caspian sea.
2007-08-17 19:12:55
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answered by Arasan 7
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Gulf
1. Abbr. G. A large area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land, especially a long landlocked portion of sea opening through a strait.
Sea
n.
1. The continuous body of salt water covering most of the earth's surface, especially this body regarded as a geophysical entity distinct from earth and sky.
2. Abbr. S.
a. A tract of water within an ocean.
b. A relatively large body of salt water completely or partially enclosed by land.
c. A relatively large landlocked body of fresh water.
3.
a. The condition of the ocean's surface with regard to its course, flow, swell, or turbulence: a rising sea; choppy seas.
b. A wave or swell, especially a large one: a 40-foot sea that broke over the stern.
2007-08-17 17:46:03
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answered by Anonymous
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1. a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
2. a deep hollow; chasm or abyss.
3. any wide separation, as in position, status, or education.
4. something that engulfs or swallows up.
it just mean the sea is in the middle of know wear and the gulf is by land
2007-08-17 17:36:35
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answered by WILDMAN 2
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A sea is a substantial expanse of saline water linked with an ocean, or a super, often saline, lake that lacks a organic outlet...the place as a gulf or bay is a factor of a lake or ocean that extends so as that it is surrounded by ability of land on 3 aspects.
2016-12-12 05:31:20
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answered by melaine 4
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Gulf: an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
Sea:a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1&defl=en&q=define:sea&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
There doesn't seem to be much of a difference. Perhaps a gulf is usually more open?
2007-08-17 17:41:29
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answered by bravozulu 7
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