3mo ago

Why aren't the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Red Sea, the Baltic etc. considered Gulfs?

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- I've seen a diagrammatic chart showing the difference, but damned if I can find it on my phone.
  
  I think it’s like this:
  Sea = Sea water surrounded by land
  Gulf = water that goes into land
- It changes nothing that's why avoid anyone bring "about Pluto" discussions it's a waste of time.
Probably at the time that the name was coined people thought that it’s a area rather than a gulf. Just like Milford Sound is technically a fjord and not a sound
- But does it make a sound?
  
  Only when there's nobody around.
to me “sea” doesn’t mean anything except for “general water region, smaller than an ocean”. I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with considering those three to be “gulfs”, but I think that people don’t usually think of them that way because unless you study the geography carefully, you might not even notice that they actually are connected to the rest of the ocean.
by the way, fun fact: there is actually a sea that isn’t connected to the ocean and why we don’t call it a lake, I really don’t understand. but that’s the Caspian Sea.
- According to its German Wikipedia article, the Caspian Sea is called sea and not lake only because of its size and salinity, not because it matches the relevant definitions of a sea.

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