Gulf Shores

Gulf Shores is a city in on the Gulf Coast. It has beautiful white sand beaches, but is quieter and cheaper than the Florida beaches nearby.
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  • Type: Town with 15,000 residents
  • Description: city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States
  • Also known as: Gulf Shores, AL” and “Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Postal codes: 36542 and 36547

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waterville USA.

Water park
, or simply known as Waterville, is a 20-acre water and amusement park located a quarter-mile from the in the city of Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Gulf Shores Parkway.

Gulf Shores

Latitude
30.2711° or 30° 16′ 16″ north
Longitude
-87.6894° or 87° 41′ 22″ west
Population
15,000
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
IATA airport code
GUF
United Nations Location Code
US GUF
Open location code
862J78C6+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7912696037
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4065552
Wiki­data ID
Q79669
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Gulf Shores” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: غلف شورز (ألاباما)
  • Arabic: غلف شورز، ألاباما
  • Arabic: غلف شورز
  • Basque: Gulf Shores
  • Catalan: Gulf Shores
  • Cebuano: Gulf Shores
  • Central Kurdish: گەلف شۆرز، ئەلاباما
  • Central Kurdish: گەلف شۆرز
  • Chechen: Галф-Шорс
  • Chinese: Gulf Shores
  • Chinese: 格尔夫海岸
  • Czech: Gulf Shores
  • Danish: Gulf Shores
  • Dutch: Gulf Shores
  • Egyptian Arabic: جلف شورز
  • French: Gulf Shores
  • German: Gulf Shores
  • Gilaki: گالف شؤرز
  • Haitian: Gulf Shores
  • Hungarian: Gulf Shores
  • Ido: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Ido: Gulf Shores
  • Indonesian: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Indonesian: Gulf Shores
  • Irish: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Irish: Gulf Shores
  • Italian: Gulf Shores
  • Ladin: Gulf Shores
  • Malagasy: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Malagasy: Gulf Shores
  • Mazanderani: گالف شورز
  • Min Nan Chinese: Gulf Shores
  • Newari: गल्फ शोर्स (अलाबामा)
  • Newari: गल्फ शोर्स, अलाबामा
  • Newari: गल्फ शोर्स
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Gulf Shores
  • Norwegian: Gulf Shores
  • Occitan (post 1500): Gulf Shores
  • Persian: گالف شورز، آلاباما
  • Persian: گالف شورز، الاباما
  • Persian: گالف شورز
  • Polish: Gulf Shores
  • Portuguese: Gulf Shores
  • Serbian: Gulf Shores
  • Serbian: Галф Шорс
  • Serbo-Croatian: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Serbo-Croatian: Gulf Shores
  • Slovak: Gulf Shores
  • Slovenian: Gulf Shores
  • South Azerbaijani: قالف شورز، آلاباما
  • Spanish: Gulf Shores (Alabama)
  • Spanish: Gulf Shores
  • Swedish: Gulf Shores
  • Tatar: Галф-Шорс
  • Turkish: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Turkish: Gulf Shores
  • Ukrainian: Галф-Шорс
  • Ukrainian: Ґалф-Шорс
  • Uzbek: Gulf Shores
  • Vietnamese: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Vietnamese: Gulf Shores
  • Volapük: Gulf Shores
  • Waray (Philippines): Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Waray (Philippines): Gulf Shores
  • Welsh: Gulf Shores, Alabama
  • Welsh: Gulf Shores

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