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  • noun an arm of the South China Sea between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula

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Examples

  • The further it sailed into the Gulf of Siam, however, the less credible that destination became, and the more certain an observer could be that this was an invasion force bound for Thailand and/or Malaya.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • Thus, by early 1969 a patrolled waterway interdiction barrier extended almost uninterrupted from Tay Ninh northwest of Saigon to the Gulf of Siam.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • (TEYE-land) Constitutional monarchy in southern Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma to the west and northwest, Laos to the north and east, Cambodia to the southeast, and the Gulf of Siam (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Malaysia to the south.

    Thailand 2002

  • Nation in Southeast Asia; bordered by Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, the Gulf of Siam to the south, and Thailand to the west and north.

    Cambodia 2002

  • A fleet of small steamers, schooners and junks, carries on trade with the towns and districts on the east and west coasts of the Gulf of Siam.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The Route Coloniale, which was the one I followed, has its beginning at Kep, on the Gulf of Siam, runs north-eastward through the jungles of Cambodia to Pnom-Penh, and, recommencing at

    Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

  • He would live all by himself on one of the Pirate Islands, in the Gulf of Siam.

    Civilization Tales of the Orient Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917

  • China; on the south by the Sea of China, the Gulf of Siam and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • And then I was left alone. with my ship, anchored at the head of the Gulf of Siam.

    The Secret Sharer 1911

  • The fourth day out, I think (we were then working down the east side of the Gulf of Siam, tack for tack, in light winds and smooth water) -- the fourth day, I say, of this miserable juggling with the unavoidable, as we sat at our evening meal, that man, whose slightest movement I dreaded, after putting down the dishes ran up on deck busily.

    The Secret Sharer 1911

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