Mexico, Gulf of
- a large extension of the western Atlantic Ocean. Bounded in a sweeping curve by the US to the north, by Mexico to the west and south, and by Cuba to the south-east, it is linked to the Atlantic by the Straits of Florida and to the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatán Channel.墨西哥湾(大西洋西部的延伸; 北接美国, 西和南为墨西哥, 东南为古巴, 形成弯状; 经佛罗里达海峡与大西洋相连, 经尤卡坦海峡与加勒比海相通)。