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Ghana national football team
Ghana national football team, the Black Stars, Ghana's men's team run by the Ghana FA; four-time AFCON champions (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982) and five-time World Cup participant, quarter-finalists in 2010.
Ghana National Science and Maths Quiz
National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), Ghana's annual televised senior high school science and mathematics competition run by Primetime Limited since 1993; five rounds, three schools per contest, PRESEC-Legon record nine titles.
Ghana Premier League
The Ghana Premier League is Ghana's top professional football division, organized by the Ghana Football Association since 1956 and dominated by Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak.
Ghana senior high school system
Ghana's senior high school system is the three-year upper-secondary stage of the 6-3-4 education cycle, culminating in the WASSCE, with tuition, boarding, and feeding free at public schools since September 2017.
Ghana Stock Exchange
The Ghana Stock Exchange is Ghana's national securities exchange, trading since 1990, which runs equities, the Ghana Alternative Market for smaller firms, and the Ghana Fixed Income Market.
Ghana's gold and salt tax
Ghana's gold and salt tax was a transit duty levied by the king of Ghana on salt in the trans-Saharan trade, recorded by the geographer al-Bakri in the eleventh century.
Ghanaian cedi
The Ghanaian cedi (GHS, ₵) is the currency of Ghana, issued by the Bank of Ghana and divided into 100 pesewas; the current cedi dates from 2007.
Ghanaian concert party
The Ghanaian concert party is a twentieth-century traveling comic variety theater combining music, slapstick comedy, drama, and highlife music, performed largely in local languages by itinerant troupes.
Ghanaian cuisine
Ghanaian cuisine: West African food culture built on starchy staples (fufu, kenkey, banku, tuo zaafi) with soups and stews, fish as main animal protein, regional traditions, and festival foods like kpokpoi.
Ghanaian diaspora
The Ghanaian diaspora is the population of Ghanaians and their descendants living outside Ghana, an estimated 1.1 million people in 2024, sending nearly $7.8 billion in remittances by 2025.
Ghanam Krishna Iyer
Ghanam Krishna Iyer (கானம் கிருஷ்ண ஐயர்) was a Carnatic music composer and court musician of the Udayarpalayam palace in Tamil Nadu, known for his Tamil padams and kirtanas.
Ghananand
Ghananand (घनानंद) was a riti-period Hindi poet of the 17th and 18th centuries, remembered for devotional verse written at Vrindavan under the name Anandghan, including the celebrated Sujan Hit.
Ghanashyam Nayak (ઘનશ્યામ નાયક)
Ghanashyam Nayak (ઘનશ્યામ નાયક), 1944–2021, Indian Gujarati and Hindi film, theatre and television actor, best known as Nattu Kaka (Natwarlal Prabhashankar Undhaiwala) in Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah; also a Bhavai ranglo and playback singer.
Ghanchakkar (घनचक्कर)
Ghanchakkar (घनचक्कर) is a 2013 Hindi comedy-crime-thriller directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, starring Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan; an amnesiac safe-cracker cannot recall where he hid bank-robbery loot. Released 28 June 2013 by UTV, it flopped.
Ghani Kashmiri
Ghani Kashmiri (غنی کشمیری), full name Mohammad Tahir Ghani, was a Persian-language lyric poet of seventeenth-century Srinagar, Kashmir, who refused summons to the Mughal court.
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Ghanshyam Das Birla, known as G.D. Birla, was an Indian industrialist from Pilani, Rajasthan, who built the Birla group into one of India's two largest business houses and co-founded FICCI.
Ghanshyam Tiwari (Rajasthan politician)
Ghanshyam Tiwari is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan, elected for a term running from 2022 to 2028.
Ghantasala (playback singer)
Ghantasala, full name Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao (ఘంటసాల), was an Indian playback singer and composer who dominated Telugu cinema music from the late 1940s until his death in 1974.
Ghantasala Mound
Ghantasala Mound (Lanja dibba), a Buddhist stupa mound at Ghantasala, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh; excavated by Alexander Rea in 1892, with a unique concentric brick plan, ayaka platforms, and about seventeen early Prakrit inscriptions including the 1st-century CE Bharatiyanam umbrella inscription.
Ghar El Kebir settlement
Ghar El Kebir, near El Haouaria on Tunisia's Cap Bon peninsula, is the site of ancient Punic and Roman stone quarries (latomies) that supplied Carthage from the 7th century BC; ancient Hermaea, where Agathocles landed in 310 BC.
Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann (घर की लक्ष्मी बेटियाँ)
Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann (घर की लक्ष्मी बेटियाँ), also spelled Ghar Ki Laxmi Betiyaan, is a Hindi family drama broadcast on Zee TV from 2006 to 2009, produced by Creative Eye.
Gharad
Gharad (غرض) is the purpose of an Arabic poem: the subject for which it was said. In the classical qasida it comes last, as praise, satire, boasting, or elegy.
Gharana Mogudu (ఘరానా మొగుడు)
Gharana Mogudu (ఘరానా మొగుడు) is a 1992 Telugu action comedy drama by K. Raghavendra Rao starring Chiranjeevi and Nagma, released 9 April 1992, the first Telugu film to cross Rs 10 crore and the film that made Chiranjeevi India's highest paid actor.
Gharaonda (घरौंदा)
Gharaonda (घरौंदा, "The Nest"), also marketed as The City Has a Heart of Stone, is Bhimsain Khurana's 1977 Hindi drama debut starring Amol Palekar and Zarina Wahab as a Bombay couple whose house-hunting ends in a builder scam and a marriage of compromise, with Jaidev's music and Gulzar's lyrics winning 1978 Filmfare honors.
Gharat
Gharat (Ghârat) is an Iranian single-pile fishing card game for two to four players, name meaning "loot"; players capture the top card of the central pile or steal from opponents' capture piles, scoring 5/10/20 points to a 500 or 1000 target.
Gharat Ganpati
Gharat Ganpati (घरात गणपती) is a 2024 Marathi family drama directed by Navjyot Bandiwadekar, released 26 July 2024, about the Gharat family's Ganpati festival in Konkan; it won Best Debut Director at IFFI 2024.
Gharbia Governorate
Gharbia Governorate (محافظة الغربية), an Egyptian governorate in the middle Nile Delta between the Damietta and Rosetta branches; area 1,943.27 km², population 5,379,417 (2022), capital Tanta, 8 cities, industrial and agricultural economy.
Gharbzadegi
Gharbzadegi (غربزدگی), meaning "Westoxification," is a Persian term for a society's imitation of the West, coined by Ahmad Fardid and given its lasting form in Jalal Al-e Ahmad's influential 1964 book.
Ghare-Baire
Ghare-Baire (ঘরে-বাইরে, The Home and the World) is Satyajit Ray's 1984 Bengali film adapted from Tagore's 1915 novel, set during the 1905 Bengal partition and swadeshi movement, starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, and Swatilekha Chatterjee, a Cannes competitor and National Award winner distinct from the 2019 Aparna Sen retelling.
Gharga
Gharga (The Land of Shadow) is a 2026 Indian Kannada-language mystery thriller directed by M Shashidhar, starring debutant Arun Ramprasad as a novelist investigating a disappearance in a shadowy fictional village.