The Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: golfe du Saint-Laurent), the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of the Great Lakes of North America via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. The gulf is a semienclosed sea, covering an area of about 236,000 km2 (91,000 sq mi) and containing about 35000 cubic kilometers of water.
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