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Gulf⋅port

[guhlf-pawrt, -pohrt]
–noun
1. a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico. 39,676.
2. a town in W Florida. 11,180.
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Gulf·port   (gŭlf'pôrt', -pōrt')   
A city of southeast Mississippi on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico west of Biloxi. Settled in 1891 as a railroad terminus, it developed as a port after 1902. Population: 64,300.
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Gulfport

city, coseat (with nearby Biloxi) of Harrison county, southern Mississippi, U.S., about 55 miles (90 km) east of New Orleans, Louisiana. Gulfport is a port of entry on Mississippi Sound, an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico.

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