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Gazipur

Gazipur (গাজীপুর), Bangladesh: industrial district and city north of Dhaka; Gazipur City Corporation, established 16 January 2013, is the country's largest by area (~330 km²) and a major garment hub.

Gazipur Safari Park

Gazipur Safari Park, formally Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park (বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিব সাফারি পার্ক), is a safari park in Gazipur, Bangladesh, opened 2013 on sal forest 40 km north of Dhaka, with a vehicle-only Core Safari and repeated animal welfare problems.

Gazoros

Gazoros (Γάζωρος, Γάσωρος) was an ancient Macedonian city near modern Gazoros, Serres, Greece, on the hill of Agios Athanasios. Seat of the cult of Artemis Gazoria, a polis attested by Ptolemy, Stephanus Byzantius, and inscriptions from the Bronze Age to Roman times.

Gazpacho

Gazpacho: Andalusian cold soup of raw tomato, pepper, cucumber, bread, olive oil, garlic, vinegar, and salt; older bread-gruel origins, salmorejo and ajo blanco relatives, nutrition and industrial production.

Gazprom (Газпром)

Gazprom (Газпром) is Russia's state-controlled natural gas company, holding nearly 70% of Russia's gas reserves; once dominant in Europe, it lost that market after 2022 and now exports mainly to China.

Gazprom Neft

Gazprom Neft (Газпром нефть) is a Russian state-controlled oil company, the oil subsidiary of Gazprom. It was formed from Sibneft, which Gazprom acquired in 2005 and renamed in 2006, and ranks among Russia's largest oil producers.

Gazprom-Media (Газпром-медиа)

Gazprom-Media Holding (Газпром-Медиа Холдинг), Russia's largest media group, founded 21 January 1998 as a Gazprom subsidiary; owns NTV, TNT, Match TV, Rutube and Premier; Gazprom consolidated control in December 2023.

Gaztelugatxe

Gaztelugatxe (San Juan de Gaztelugatxe), a rocky islet on the Bizkaia coast between Bermeo and Bakio with a 10th-century hermitage reached by 241 steps; a protected Natural Monument of 157.95 ha and Game of Thrones' Dragonstone, capped at 1,462 visitors daily.

Gaztransport & Technigaz

Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) is a French engineering group formed in 1994 that designs cryogenic membrane containment systems for LNG carriers; its Mark III and NO96 systems equip around 86% of the world fleet.

Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana

Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana (GURI), the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic: daily journal of record for Italian laws, decrees, and administrative acts, published by Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, free online since 2013, archives back to 1861.

GB 50010

GB 50010 is China's national standard for the design of concrete structures, issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and first effective in 2011.

GB 50011

GB 50011, the Standard for Seismic Design of Buildings, is China's national standard for the seismic, isolation, and energy-dissipation design of buildings, mandatory at intensity 6 or above.

GB Group

GB Group, trading as GBG, is a British technology company headquartered in Chester that provides identity verification, location intelligence, and fraud prevention services in 195 countries.

GB News

GB News is a British free-to-air TV and radio news channel launched 13 June 2021, owned via All Perspectives Ltd by Paul Marshall and Legatum, fined £100,000 by Ofcom in 2024, and the UK's biggest news channel by daily average viewers since 2025.

GB virus C

GB virus C (GBV-C), or human pegivirus HPgV-1, formerly hepatitis G virus, is a non-pathogenic Pegivirus flavivirus; persistent infection is linked to improved survival in HIV coinfection.

GB/T 20234

GB/T 20234 (电动汽车传导充电用连接装置) is a series of Chinese national standards specifying the plugs, sockets, and test methods for electric vehicle charging connectors, defining one of the four major regional EV plug systems.

GB/T 29490

GB/T 29490 is a Chinese national standard for enterprise intellectual property management, first published in 2013 and revised in 2023 as an IP compliance management system.

GB/T 36276

GB/T 36276, titled Lithium ion battery for electrical energy storage, is a Chinese national standard covering requirements and test methods for lithium-ion storage battery cells, modules, and clusters.

GB/T 4754-2017

GB/T 4754-2017, the Industrial Classification for National Economic Activities (国民经济行业分类), is China's national standard classifying economic activities in a four-level hierarchy, issued in 2017 and used for registration, taxation, and statistics.

GB261

GB261 (also CN-261/CND-261) is Genor Biopharma's CD20×CD3 bispecific T-cell engager with low-affinity CD3 binding and retained Fc ADCC/CDC activity, trialed in B-cell lymphoma (NCT04923048) and out-licensed to TRC 2004/Candid Therapeutics for autoimmune disease.

GBA1

GBA1 (glucosylceramidase beta 1), chromosome 1 gene encoding lysosomal GCase; biallelic variants cause Gaucher disease, heterozygous variants are the leading genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

GBAD (Saab)

GBAD (ground-based air defense) is Saab's portfolio of land-based air defense products, spanning RBS 70 NG missiles, Giraffe radars, and command-and-control systems, with over 60 years of air defense experience.

Gbadu Tessera

Gbadu Tessera, a 700-km-wide tessera terrain on Venus at 1°S, 38°E, named in 1997 for Gbadu, the Fon (Benin) goddess of guessing; mapped from Magellan radar data.

Gbara

The Gbara was the great clan assembly of the Mali empire, which acclaimed Soundiata Keita as emperor and proclaimed the Kouroukan Fouga charter after 1235.

Gbaran Oil Field

The Gbaran Oil Field is an onshore oil and gas field in the Niger Delta near Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, operated by Shell and discovered in 1967.

GBAS

The Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) is an aviation navigation system that augments GNSS signals with ground-station corrections for precision approach and landing, as an alternative to the ILS.

Gbe languages

Gbe languages: a continuum of Niger-Congo (Kwa or Volta-Niger) varieties of southeastern West Africa (Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria), 4–8 million speakers, five Capo clusters including Ewe and Fon, influential substrate of Caribbean creoles.

Gbeibe Oil Field

Gbeibe Oil Field (حقل كبيبة) is a large, sour, heavy oil field in al-Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria, brought onstream in the late 1970s and operated by the Sino-Syrian Kawkab Oil Company from 2004.

Gbêkê

Gbêkê, a region of central-north Côte d'Ivoire in the Bandama Valley district, capital Bouaké; four departments (Bouaké, Béoumi, Sakassou, Botro), 1,352,900 people (2021), 9,136 km2, Baoulé heartland and second industrial hub.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

Gbenga Akinnagbe (Olugbenga Enitan Temitope Akinnagbe), American actor born 1978 in Washington, D.C. to Nigerian parents; known for Chris Partlow in The Wire, Larry Brown in The Deuce, Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird, and Liberated People activism.