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Gulf of Saint Lawrence
estuary on the east coast of Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: golfe du Saint-Laurent) is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. It is the world's largest estuary. It is a semi–enclosed sea, covering an area of about 236,000 km2 (91,000 sq mi) and having 35,000 km3 (7.7×1015 imp gal) of water.