Gulf Province is a province of
Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is
Kerema. The 34,472 km² province is dominated by
mountains, lowland
river deltas, and grassland flood plains, the
Kikori,
Turama,
Purari and Vailala rivers all meet the sea known as the
Papuan Gulf. The province has the second-smallest population of all the provinces of Papua New Guinea with 106,898 inhabitants (2000 census).