Gore may refer to:

Places

Australia

Gore, Queensland Gore is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Gore had a population of 36 people. Geography The Cunningham Highway passes through the locality f ...

Gore Creek (New South Wales) Gore Creek, an urban watercourse that is part of the Parramatta River catchment, is located in Northern Suburbs region of Sydney, Australia. Course and features Gore Creek rises in the suburb of Lane Cove on the western side of the Pacific Hig ...

Gore Island (Queensland) Gore Island is an island about 1 km southeast of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in Temple Bay about 200 km northeast of Kutini-Payamu National Park and Lockhart River in the Cape York Pe ...

Canada

Gore, Nova Scotia Gore is a rural Canadian community in central Hants County, Nova Scotia. It is located just 25 minutes from Elmsdale; 30 minutes from Halifax Stanfield International Airport; and 45 minutes from Truro. It was named after Sir Charles Stephen Gore. ...

, a rural community * Gore, Quebec, a township municipality *

Gore Bay, Ontario ] Gore Bay became a town on April 7, 1890, on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. Located on Gore Bay, a bay of Lake Huron's North Channel, it is one of the two incorporated towns of Manitoulin District, of which it is the administrative and gov ...

, a township on Manitoulin Island

United Kingdom

* Gore Hundred, a historic subdivision of Middlesex *

Kensington Gore Kensington Gore is the name of a U-shaped thoroughfare on the south side of Hyde Park in central London, England. The streets connect the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal College of Art, the Royal Geographical Society, and in Kensington Garde ...

, a street in Kensington, West London **

Gore House Gore House, built in the 1750s, with its grounds was in Middlesex, England in a large exclave of St Margaret Westminster, Kensington Gore. Until its west wing soon became Grove House it was set apart from the east end of a row of 18th-century ho ...

, on Kensington Gore

United States

* Gore, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Gore, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Gore, Ohio Gore is an unincorporated community in Hocking County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. History Old variant names of Gore include Hamlin, New Gore and Burgessville. Burgessville was first to be laid out, in January 1871. Hamlin was laid out in Februar ...

, an unincorporated community *

Gore, Oklahoma Gore is a town in western Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 977 at the 2010 census, an increase of 15 percent over the figure of 850 recorded ...

, a town * Gore, Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Gore Canyon Gore Canyon, elevation , is a short isolated canyon on the upper Colorado River in southwestern Grand County, Colorado in the United States. Steep and rugged, the approximately 3 mile (5 km) long gorge was carved by the river as it passed ...

, Colorado *

Gore Creek (Colorado) Gore Creek is a tributary of the Eagle River, approximately long, in Eagle County, Colorado, United States, Description The river drains an area of the Rocky Mountains at the south end of the Gore Range through Gore Valley. It rises on the Ea ...

Gore Mountain (New York) Gore Mountain is a mountain located near the village of North Creek in Warren County, New York, of which its peak is the highest point. Gore is flanked to the north by South Mountain, and to the southwest by Height of Land Mountain. The mountai ...

Gore Mountain (Vermont) Gore Mountain is a mountain located in the uninhabited Avery's Gore in Essex County, Vermont, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the Canada–US border with Quebec. In Vermont, gores and grants are unincorporated portions of a county wh ...

Gore Range The Gore Range (elevation approximately 12,000 ft) is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of north central Colorado in the United States. Geography The range runs for approximately 60 miles (100 km) northwest-to-southeast, through ...

, Colorado *

Goretown, South Carolina Goretown (also Gore Town) is an unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. Goretown is located east of Loris Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine mammals of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Loris ...

, an unincorporated community *

Junction City, Kentucky Junction City is a home rule-class city in Boyle County on its border with Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Junction City's population was 2,241 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is part of the Danville Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hi ...

, formerly known as Gore *"The Gore", southeast Indiana, a nickname for part of the former Northwest Territory ceded from Ohio to Indiana in 1803, originally

Dearborn County Dearborn County is one of 92 counties of the U.S. state of Indiana located on the Ohio border near the southeast corner of the state. It was formed in 1803 from a portion of Hamilton County, Ohio. In 2020, the population was 50,679. The county ...

Gore Township, Michigan Gore Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 139 at the 2000 census. Gore is a small, wedge-shaped township, consisting of only four full sections and six partial sections on the shore of La ...

Elsewhere

Gorë Gorë is a former municipality in the Korçë County, southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Maliq. The population at the 2011 census was 1,565. The municipal unit consists of the villa ...

, a former municipality in Korçë County, Albania *

Goré, Chad Goré ( ar, غوري) is a town and the capital of the La Nya Pendé in Chad's Logone Oriental Region. Near Goré, the refugee camps of Amboko, Gondjé, and Dosseye along the Pendé River have been home to refugees from the Central African Republic ...

, a town **

Roman Catholic Diocese of Goré The Roman Catholic Diocese of Goré ( la, Goren(sis)) is a diocese in Goré in the Ecclesiastical province of N'Djamena in Chad. History * November 28, 1998: Established as Diocese of Goré from the Diocese of Doba and Diocese of Moundou Leaders ...

, Chad * Gore District, Upper Canada, an historical district of Upper Canada, now the province of Ontario, Canada * Gore District, New Zealand, a district in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand **

Gore, New Zealand Gore ( mi, Maruawai) is a town and Gore District, New Zealand, district in the Southland Region, Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand. Geography The town of Gore is located on State Highway 1 (New Zealand), State Highway 1 64&nbs ...

, a town * Gore, Ethiopia, a town *

Gore Island (Baja California) Gore Island, or Isla Gore, is an island in the Colorado River Delta within the state of Baja California, Mexico. It lies between two dis-tributary channels east of the main channel of the Colorado River and Montague Island that flow southeastwar ...

, Mexico

People

* Gore (given name), including a list of notable people with the given name *

Gore (surname) Gore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: People with the surname A-E *Al Gore (born 1948), American politician, US Vice President, author, and environmental activist * Albert Gore Sr. (1907–1998), American lawyer and politic ...

, including a list of notable people with the surname *

Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic Part ...

(born 1948), American politician and environmentalist * Gore, family name of the

Earls of Arran Earl of Arran may refer to: *Earl of Arran (Scotland) Earl of Arran is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It is not to be confused with the title Earl of Arran in the Peerage of Ireland. The two titles refer to different places: the Isle of A ...

in the Peerage of Ireland * Gore baronets, in the Baronetage of Ireland * Gregor Gore Verbinski (born 1964), American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician * Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American writer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional places

*Gore, a mythical place mentioned in the Arthurian legend, ruled by King Urien and probably based on the historical kingdom of

Rheged Rheged () was one of the kingdoms of the ''Hen Ogledd'' ("Old North"), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages. It is recorded in several poetic and ba ...

* The Gore, a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''

Music

Gore (band) Gore was a Dutch rock band formed in 1985. They released five studio albums, one live album, one EP, two compilation albums with live material, demo recordings and remixes and had two compilation appearances between 1986 and 1997. They split up i ...

, a Dutch rock band formed in 1985 * ''Gore'' (Deftones album), 2016, or the title track * ''Gore'' (Lous and the Yakuza album), 2020 * "Gore", a song by Trippie Redd from his 2018 album '' Life's a Trip''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* General Gore (character), fictional character in the film ''Friend of the World'' by Brian Patrick Butler * ''Gore'' (film), a cancelled biographical film about Gore Vidal * '' Gore: Ultimate Soldier'', a 2002 first-person shooter video game * ''The Unseen'' (novel), a horror-mystery novel by Joseph Citro, also known as ''The Gore'' * Splatter film, a horror genre also known as "gore film" *Gore, colloquial term for recordings of graphic violence

Textiles

* Gore (fabrics), a triangular piece of cloth used in dress making or hat making * Gore-Tex, a fabric made by W. L. Gore and Associates *

W. L. Gore and Associates W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is an American multinational manufacturing company specializing in products derived from fluoropolymers. It is a privately held corporation headquartered in Newark, Delaware. It is best known as the developer of wat ...

, maker of Gore-Tex fabrics and other industrial products

Other uses

Gore (heraldry) In heraldry a gore is a charge formed by two inwardly curved lines starting from the dexter chief (for the view, the upper left) corner and the middle base point and meeting in the fess point (lower center). The same charge upon the sinister ...

, a roughly triangular charge upon a shield in a coat of arms *

Gore (road) In road and highway construction a gore (or nose in modern British English) is a triangular plot of land (as designated when a road forks when intersecting a second road, or merges on and off from a larger one). A "virtual" (or "theoretical") ...

, a narrow, triangular area of land often found at road merges and diverges * Gore (segment), an (often triangular) sector of a curved surface as used to make globes and balloons *

Gore (surveying) A gore is an irregular parcel of land, as small as a triangle of median in a street intersection or as large as an unincorporated area the size of a township. In old English law, a gore was a small, narrow strip of land. In modern land law an ...

, a narrow usually triangular strip of land * , a British frigate which served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946 * Striking spear, or The Gore, a wrestling attack move used by Rhyno