# 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

## Science and technology
### 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
* GB PGB, a series of Chinese precision guided bombs

### 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 /ɡ͡b/
* 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