# Bay (disambiguation)

A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides.
Bay, Bays, baying, or The Bay may also refer to:

## Places
### China

* Bay County or Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

### France

* Bay, Haute-Saône, a commune

### Philippines

* Bay, Laguna, a municipality
* Bay River

### Somalia

* Bay, Somalia

### United Kingdom

* Bay, Dorset, a location in England
* Bay, Highland, a location in Scotland

### United States

* Bay, Arkansas
* Bay, Springfield, Massachusetts, a neighborhood
* Bay, Missouri
* Bay County, Florida
* Bay County, Michigan
* Bays, Kentucky
* Bays, Ohio
* San Francisco Bay Area, California, a metropolitan area often referred to as just "the Bay"

## Animals and plants
### Animals

* Bay (horse), a color of the hair coats of some horses
* Baying, a kind of howling made by canines

### Plants

* Bay laurel, the evergreen laurel tree species Laurus nobilis
* Bay leaf, the aromatic leaves of several species of the Laurel family
* Rose bay, a common name for Rhododendron maximum

## Architecture and interior design

* Bay (architecture), a module in classical or Gothic architecture
* Bay, the name in English of a ken, a Japanese unit of measure and proportion
* Bay window, a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room
* Bay (shelving), a basic unit of library shelving

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Radio stations

* Bay Radio (Malta), a radio station located in Malta
* Bay Radio (Spain), a radio station serving the Valencian Community in Spain
* Heart North Lancashire & Cumbria, formerly The Bay, a radio station in North West England
* Hot Radio, originally operating as The Bay 102.8, a radio station in Dorset, England,
* Easy Radio, formerly Swansea Bay Radio, a radio station in South Wales
* WZBA, a classic rock radio station, operating as 100.7 The Bay, in Westminster, Maryland

### Other arts, entertainment, and media

* The Bay (film), a 2012 American found footage horror film
* The Bay (web series), a soap opera web series that premiered in 2010
* "The Bay", a 2011 single by Metronomy
* The Bay (TV series), a British crime drama
* Bays (album), a 2015 album by Fat Freddy's Drop

## Businesses

* Bank of Ayudhya, a Thai commercial bank (Stock symbol: BAY)
* Bay Networks, a network hardware vendor acquired by Nortel Networks in 1998
* Bay Trading Company, a retailer of woman's clothes in the UK
* Hudson's Bay (retailer) or The Bay, a chain of department stores in Canada

## Transport

* Baia Mare Airport in Baia Mare, Romania
* Bay platform, a dead-end platform at a railway station which has through lines
* Bay station, a subway station in Toronto
* Bayswater railway station, Melbourne
* Bay, the space enclosed by a set of struts on a biplane (see Biplane § Overview)
* Loading bay, a synonym for loading dock

## People

* Bay (chancellor), a royal scribe to an ancient Egyptian ruler
* Bay (surname)
* Bay Buchanan (born 1948), a prominent American conservative political commentator

## Other uses

* Bay (cloth), a coarse woolen cloth similar to Baize but lighter in weight and with shorter pile.
* Drive bay, an area for adding hardware in a computer
* Sick bay, nautical term for the location in a ship that is used for medical purposes
* The Bay School of San Francisco, a private high school
* Substation bay, an interconnection of equipment in an electrical substation