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What are the 2 peninsulas guarding the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico?
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What is the large peninsulas in Mexico that extends into the gulf of Mexico?
Yucatan
Did the Gulf of Mexico become a sea?
No. It is a gulf because it is delimited by two peninsulas. In this case, those are the Florida and Yucatan peninsulas.
What geographic figure is close to the gulf of Mexico?
Both the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas.
Which touch the gulf of Mexico?
Mexico, the United States and Cuba; also the Florida and Yucatan peninsulas qualify. Finally, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida have shores on the Gulf of Mexico.
Which island is at the entrance to the gulf of mexico?
Cuba qualifies as such.
Is Gulf of Mexico a country or a city?
It is neither. It is a gulf, or a large body of water surrounded by two large peninsulas (Yucatan and Florida) which separate the Gulf of Mexico from both the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Why is the waves not as big in the Gulf of Mexico as in the Atlantic Ocean?
Because it is protected by the Florida and Yucatan peninsulas. Think of the Gulf of Mexico as a large bay, protected from the open sea by such landforms.
Is the Gulf of Mexico a state country or city?
It is neither. The Gulf of Mexico is a rather large body of water that can be considered part of the Atlantic Ocean, and is delimited by the Florida and Yucatan peninsulas, south of the United States of America and east of Mexico.
Is the gulf of Mexico a state?
No. It is a body of water connected to the much larger Atlantic Ocean, and is delimited by the Florida and Yucatan peninsulas.
What seas surrond the Yucatan peninsulas?
It is surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico to the west; the Yucatan channel to the north (with Cuba) and the Caribbean Sea to the East.
What is the name of the peninsula in southwestern Mexico and what two bodies of water does it touch?
There is no such place. There are two peninsulas that could be the answer to your question:The Baja California peninsula on the northwest, touching the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California.The Yucatan peninsula on the southeast, touching the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
What does gulf mean in the Gulf of Mexico?
Gulf means it is a large body of water, almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth or "exit" into another Ocean. In this case, the Gulf of Mexico is a large body of water enclosed by the southern United States and most of eastern and southeastern Mexico. Its mouth is delimited by the Florida and Yucatan peninsulas.
