GB

GB, or Gb may refer to:

Places

 * United Kingdom (ISO 3166-1 code), a sovereign country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
 * Great Britain, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
 * Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800), a predecessor country of the United Kingdom
 * Gilgit-Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan
 * Guinea-Bissau, a sovereign state in West Africa
 * Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
 * Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States

Businesses and organisations

 * GB Airways, a British airline
 * Gardner Bender, a manufacturer of professional electrician's tools and supplies
 * Girls' Brigade, a Christian organization for girls
 * Grande Bibliothèque, a large public library in Montreal
 * University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, an American university
 * ABX Air (IATA airline designator GB), a cargo airline
 * GB Glace, a Swedish ice cream company
 * Griesedieck Brothers beer, an American beer brand
 * GB Supermarkets, a Belgian chain that was eventually taken over by Carrefour
 * GB News, a British television news channel

Computing and electronics

 * Gigabit (Gb), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
 * Gigabyte (GB), a unit of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
 * Gain–bandwidth product, product of amplifier midband gain and bandwidth
 * Game Boy, a handheld video game console
 * Guobiao standards, Chinese National Standards
 * GB 2312, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters; also has partial support for Traditional, and some other languages, though in practice web browser support it as (i.e. with full support):
 * GB 18030, an encoding scheme for rendering Simplified Chinese characters, but with full support for Traditional, and all languages Unicode supports, since it's a full Unicode Transformation Format

Military technology

 * Beechcraft GB Traveler, U.S. Navy aircraft
 * Steyr GB, an Austrian semi-automatic handgun
 * Sarin (NATO designation GB), a nerve gas
 * GB-1, a World War II American glide bomb

Other uses in science and technology

 * Ganglion blocker, a medication
 * Gigabase (Gb), a unit of length for DNA
 * Gilbert (unit) (Gb), a unit of magnetization named for English physicist William Gilbert
 * Government and binding theory, in linguistics, by Noam Chomsky
 * Guillain–Barré syndrome, an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy

Sport

 * Great Britain at the Olympics, the Olympic team of the United Kingdom
 * Green Bay Packers, an American football team
 * Games behind, a number reflecting the gap between two sports teams

People

 * GB (footballer), (full name Gabriel Souza da Silva), Brazilian association footballer
 * Guy Bomford, who also published as G.B.

Other uses

 * Gb (digraph), a digraph in the Latin alphabet
 * Voiced labial–velar plosive, a consonant sound transcribed as
 * G♭ (musical note), a semitone
 * G-flat major, a key
 * Group buy, buying something as a collective
 * Gazerbeam, a fictional deceased superhero in the animated film The Incredibles
 * Goin' Bulilit, Philippine television show