Gulf Shores
Gulf Shores is a city in Alabama on the Gulf Coast. It has beautiful white sand beaches, but is quieter and cheaper than the Florida beaches nearby.
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “Gulf Shores (Alabama)”, “Gulf Shores, AL”, “Gulf Shores, Alabama”, “غلف شورز (ألاباما)”, “غلف شورز، ألاباما”, “گالف شورز، الاباما”, and “गल्फ शोर्स (अलाबामा)”
- Postal codes: 36542 and 36547
Gulf Shores
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Baldwin, Gulf Coast, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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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
UN/LOCODE
US GUF
Open location code
862J78C6+C6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gulf Shores” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غلف شورز”
- Basque: “Gulf Shores”
- Catalan: “Gulf Shores”
- Cebuano: “Gulf Shores”
- Central Kurdish: “گەلف شۆرز، ئەلاباما”
- Chechen: “Галф-Шорс”
- Chinese: “格尔夫海岸”
- Czech: “Gulf Shores”
- Danish: “Gulf Shores”
- Dutch: “Gulf Shores”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جلف شورز”
- Finnish: “Gulf Shores”
- 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”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gulf Shores”
- Norwegian: “Gulf Shores”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gulf Shores”
- Persian: “گالف شورز، آلاباما”
- Persian: “گالف شورز”
- Polish: “Gulf Shores”
- Portuguese: “Gulf Shores”
- Russian: “Галф Шорс”
- Serbian: “Галф Шорс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gulf Shores, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gulf Shores”
- Silesian: “Gulf Shores”
- Slovak: “Gulf Shores”
- Slovenian: “Gulf Shores”
- South Azerbaijani: “قالف شورز، آلاباما”
- Spanish: “Gulf Shores”
- Swedish: “Gulf Shores”
- Tatar: “Галф-Шорс”
- Turkish: “Gulf Shores, Alabama”
- Turkish: “Gulf Shores”
- Ukrainian: “Галф-Шорс”
- Ukrainian: “Ґалф-Шорс”
- Urdu: “گلف شورز، الاباما”
- 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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