Places
- Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France
- Gap, Pennsylvania, United States
- The Gap, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- The Gap, New South Wales, farming community in the central east part of the Riverina close to Wagga Wagga
- The Gap (Sydney), an ocean cliff at Watsons Bay, New South Wales, Australia
- Cumberland Gap, a pass through the Cumberland Mountains at the juncture of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia
- Loughborough Gap, a disused section of the Great Central Railway in England
- Mid-Atlantic Gap, in World War II, an area in the Atlantic Ocean with no air coverage
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, license plate code GAP
- Darien Gap, Central America, the terrain feature that has prevented a roadway from being built that connects North and South America
- Great Allegheny Passage, A hiking/biking trail stretching from Pittsburgh, PA to Cumberland, MD
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