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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortés or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea, is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the from the mainland.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: gulf of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of Mexico
  • Also known as: “Sea of Cortes”, “Sea of Cortés”, “Sea of Cortez”, and “Vermilion Sea”

Gulf of California

Latitude
27.5578° or 27° 33′ 28″ north
Longitude
-111.7047° or 111° 42′ 17″ west
Named after
Island of California
Open location code
75VCH75W+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305639734
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­sea
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Wiki­data ID
Q132811
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gulf of California” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Golf van Kalifornië”
  • Afrikaans: “Gulf of California”
  • Arabic: “بحر كورتس”
  • Arabic: “خليج كالفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “خليج كاليفورنيا”
  • Armenian: “Կալիֆոռնիական ծոց”
  • Armenian: “Կալիֆոռնիայի ծոց”
  • Asturian: “Golfu de California”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaliforniya körfəzi”
  • Bashkir: “Калифорния ҡултығы”
  • Basque: “Cortésen Itsasoa”
  • Basque: “Kalifornia Golkoa”
  • Basque: “Kaliforniako golkoa”
  • Belarusian: “Каліфарнійская затока”
  • Belarusian: “Каліфарнійскі заліў”
  • Belarusian: “Мора Картэса”
  • Bengali: “ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া উপসাগর”
  • Bosnian: “Kalifornijski zaliv”
  • Breton: “Mor Cortes”
  • Breton: “Mor Cortés”
  • Breton: “Pleg-mor California”
  • Breton: “Pleg-mor Kalifornia”
  • Bulgarian: “Калифорнийски залив”
  • Bulgarian: “Калифорнийския залив”
  • Catalan: “golf de Califòrnia”
  • Catalan: “Golf de Califòrnia”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Cortés”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەنداوی کالیفۆرنیا”
  • Chinese: “California Oan”
  • Chinese: “加利福尼亚湾”
  • Chinese: “加利福尼亞灣”
  • Chinese: “加里弗尼亚海湾”
  • Chinese: “科爾蒂斯海”
  • Chuvash: “Калифорни кӳлмекĕ”
  • Croatian: “Cortesovo more”
  • Croatian: “Kalifornijski zaljev”
  • Czech: “Californský záliv”
  • Czech: “Cortézovo moře”
  • Czech: “Kalifornský záliv”
  • Danish: “Californiske Bugt”
  • Danish: “Californiske Golf”
  • Danish: “Cortezhavet”
  • Dutch: “Californische golf”
  • Dutch: “golf van Californië”
  • Dutch: “Golf van Californië”
  • Dutch: “zee van Cortes”
  • Dutch: “zee van Cortés”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo de Kalifornio”
  • Esperanto: “Kalifornia Golfo”
  • Esperanto: “Maro de Korteso”
  • Estonian: “California laht”
  • Fiji Hindi: “California ke khaarri”
  • Finnish: “Kalifornian lahti”
  • Finnish: “Kalifornianlahti”
  • French: “golfe de Californie”
  • French: “Golfe de Californie”
  • French: “mer de Cortés”
  • French: “mer de Cortès”
  • French: “mer de Cortez”
  • French: “mer Vermeille”
  • Galician: “Golfo de California”
  • Georgian: “კალიფორნიის ყურე”
  • German: “Cortes-See”
  • German: “Cortez-See”
  • German: “Golf von Kalifornien”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος της Καλιφόρνια”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος της Καλιφόρνιας”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ קליפורניה”
  • Hindi: “कैलिफ़ोर्निया की खाड़ी”
  • Hungarian: “Kaliforniai-öböl”
  • Icelandic: “Kaliforníuflói”
  • Indonesian: “Teluk California”
  • Italian: “Golfo della California”
  • Italian: “Golfo di California”
  • Italian: “Mar Bermejo”
  • Italian: “Mar de Cortés”
  • Italian: “Mare di Cortés”
  • Italian: “Mare di Cortez”
  • Japanese: “カリフォルニア湾”
  • Japanese: “カリフォルニア湾の島々と保護地域群”
  • Japanese: “コルテス海”
  • Kazakh: “Kalïfornïya şığanağı”
  • Kazakh: “Калифорния шығанағы”
  • Kazakh: “كالىيفورنىييا شىعاناعى”
  • Kirghiz: “Калифорния булуңу”
  • Korean: “깔리포르니아 해”
  • Korean: “깔리포르니아해”
  • Korean: “칼리포르니아 만”
  • Korean: “칼리포르니아만”
  • Korean: “캘리포니아 만”
  • Korean: “캘리포니아만”
  • Korean: “코르테스 해”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Kortez”
  • Kurdish: “Kendava Kalîforniyayê”
  • Kurdish: “کەنداڤا کالیفۆرنیایێ”
  • Latin: “Sinus Californiae”
  • Latvian: “Kalifornijas līcis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalifornijos įlanka”
  • Macedonian: “Калифорниски Залив”
  • Malay: “Teluk California”
  • Malayalam: “ഗൾഫ് ഓഫ് കാലിഫോർണിയ”
  • Maltese: “Baħar ta‘ Cortés”
  • Maltese: “Baħar ta‘ Cortez”
  • Maltese: “Golf ta‘ California”
  • Maltese: “Golf ta’ California”
  • Marathi: “कॅलिफोर्नियाचे आखात”
  • Marathi: “कॉर्तेझचा समुद्र”
  • Marathi: “कोर्तेसचा समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “کالیفرنیا دریامونا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “California Oan”
  • Mingrelian: “კალიფორნიაშ ჸუჯი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “California-bukta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Californiabukta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Californiabukten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Californiagulfen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gulf of California”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Californiabukta”
  • Norwegian: “Californiabukta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Golf de Califòrnia”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਰਨੀਆ ਦੀ ਖਾੜੀ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “خلیج کالیفرنیا”
  • Polish: “Morze Cortésa”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Kalifornijska”
  • Portuguese: “Golfo da Califórnia”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Bermejo”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Cortés”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Cortez”
  • Romanian: “Golful California”
  • Russian: “Калифорнийский залив”
  • Russian: “Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Море Кортеса”
  • Serbian: “Gulf of California”
  • Serbian: “Kalifornijski zaliv”
  • Serbian: “Калифорнијски залив”
  • Serbian: “Кортезово море”
  • Serbian: “Цортезово море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cortezovo more”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalifornijski zaliv”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalifornijski zaljev”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kortesovo more”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kortezovo more”
  • Slovak: “Kalifornský záliv”
  • Slovenian: “Cortezovo morje”
  • Slovenian: “Kalifornijski zaliv”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کالیفورنیا کؤرفزی”
  • Spanish: “Golfo de California”
  • Spanish: “Mar Bermejo”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Cortes”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Cortés”
  • Swahili: “Ghuba ya Kalifornia”
  • Swedish: “Californiaviken”
  • Swedish: “Cortez hav”
  • Swedish: “Cortezhavet”
  • Swedish: “Golfo de California”
  • Swedish: “Kalifornienviken”
  • Swedish: “Mar de Cortes”
  • Swedish: “Mar de Cortés”
  • Tamil: “கலிபோர்னியா வளைகுடா”
  • Thai: “อ่าวกาลิฟอร์เนีย”
  • Thai: “อ่าวแคลิฟอร์เนีย”
  • Turkish: “California Körfezi”
  • Turkish: “Cortés Denizi”
  • Turkish: “Kaliforniya Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Каліфорнійська затока”
  • Ukrainian: “Каліфорнія”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Кортеса”
  • Urdu: “خلیج کیلی فورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Kaliforniya qoʻltigʻi”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Ca Li”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh California”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Cortés”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Cortez”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Golpo han California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gulf of California”
  • Welsh: “Gwlff Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Gwlff California”
  • Welsh: “Môr Cortés”
  • Western Frisian: “Golf fan Kalifornje”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیلیفورنیا دی کھاڑی”
  • Wu Chinese: “加利福尼亚湾”
  • Yiddish: “איינגאס פון קאליפארניע”
  • Yue Chinese: “加利福尼亞灣”
  • “California Ayollohko”
  • “Weyitlapallan Ayollohko”

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