| VAASA | Port on the Gulf of Bothnia and capital of Finland in 1918 |
| SWEDEN | Third-largest country in the EU, on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea (6) |
| TURKU | City and port on the Gulf of Bothnia, capital of Finland until 1812 (5) |
| BERBERA | Port on the Gulf of Aden in the Sahil region in the autonomous area of Somaliland in Somalia |
| PORI | Industrial port of SW Finland on the Kokemaen River near the Gulf of Bothnia; Swedish name, Bjorneborg (4) |
| ESPOO | Second-largest city of Finland, in the south just west of Helsinki (5) |
| EST | Country bordered by the Gulf of Finland, in brief |
| ALAND | Island group in the Gulf of Bothnia forming the smallest province of Finland; Finnish name, Ahvenanmaa (5) |
| OULU | Large Finnish city on the north-eastern shore of the Gulf of Bothnia (4) |
| ISLANDS | Archipelago of SW Finland at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia; largest city, Mariehamn (7) |
| VERACRUZ | City and port on the Gulf of Mexico occupied by the US during the Tampico Affair of 1914 |
| ACCRA | Port on the Gulf of Guinea and capital of Ghana (5) |
| HELSINKI | Capital city and port on the Gulf of Finland (8) |
| KEKKONEN | Urho ___, eighth and longest- serving President of Finland, in office from 1956 to 1981 (8) |
| IMPERIA | Small port on the Gulf of Genoa in Italy NE of San Remo (7) |
| SWEDE | One who lives on the Gulf of Bothnia, perhaps |
| BALTICSEA | The Gulf of Bothnia is part of it |
| LAGOS | Port on the Gulf of Guinea: its country's capital until 1991 |
| BENGHAZI | Port on the Gulf of Sidra in northern Libya (8) |
| SWE | Country on the Gulf of Bothnia: Abbr. |
