Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is Kerema. The 34,500 km2 province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains, the Kikiori, Turama, Purari and Vaiala rivers all meet the sea in the Gulf Province. The province has the smallest population of all the provinces of Paupa New Guinea with an estimated 72,794 inhabitants. Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Nile River delta, as seen from Earth orbit. ...
GulfProvince is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast.
province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains, the Kikiori, Turama, Purari and Vaiala rivers all meet the sea in the GulfProvince.
The province has the second-smallest population of all the provinces of Papua New Guinea with 106,898 inhabitants (2000 census).
The Gulf is bordered by the United States to the north (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas), five Mexican states to the west (Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan), and the island of Cuba to the southeast.
The Gulf of Mexico basin is a relatively simple, roughly circular structural basin approximately 1,500 km in diameter, filled in its deeper part with 10 to 15 km of sedimentary rocks that range in age from Late Triassic to Holocene (approximately 230 m.y.
The Gulf bottom of the region is characterized by sediment-covered folds that parallel the shore.
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