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Geographic Locations > Oceans and Seas > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico
Physical Phenomena > Geological Phenomena > Oceans and Seas > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico

Preferred term

Gulf of Mexico  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • A body of water located at the southeastern corner of North America. It is bordered by the states to the north of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas; by five Mexican states to the west: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan; and by Cuba to the southeast.

History note

  • 2012

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D060851

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