| ISTRIA | Peninsula south of the Gulf of Trieste |
| IBERIA | Peninsula south of the Pyrenees |
| ESTONIA | Nation south of the Gulf of Finland |
| DJIBOUTI | Port city and capital of the republic of the same name that lies on the southern shore of the Gulf of Tadjoura, an inlet of the Gulf of Aden (8) |
| CAMPECHE | Bay of ?, that part of the Gulf of Mexico west of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| SOCOTRA | Island near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden that became part of South Yemen in 1967 (7) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
| BRIER | Nova Scotia island in the area of the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy |
| VAQUITA | Found only near the northern end of the Gulf of California, ecologists had estimated that, by 2020, no more than 18 adults of this marine mammal species remained. (7) |
| MADHA | Tiny Omani exclave sitting close to the coast of the Gulf of Oman within the United Arab Emirates. (5) |
| ISCHIA | Volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples (6) |
| AZOV | Sea of ___ (setting of the Gulf of Taganrog) |
| SINAI | Peninsula east of the Gulf of Suez |
| BAJA | Peninsula west of the Gulf of California, informally |
| EILAT | Israeli port at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba (5) |
| CRIMEA | Peninsula south of Ukraine (6) |
| KINTYRE | Scottish peninsula south of Knapdale (7) |
| BAJAMEXICO | Peninsula south of California, colloquially |
| BAJOLE | Peninsula south of California, colloquially |
| TRE | Crowd on the outside of Trieste? |