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The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish:Golfo de México) is the ninth largest body of water in the world. Considered a smaller part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North America continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The shape of its basin is roughly oval and approximately 810 nautical mile (1,500 km) wide and filled... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
Last edited by gardening_bot Jun 18, 2008

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