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Great White Way (auto trail)
The Great White Way was an auto trail across Iowa from Davenport to Council Bluffs, the first route certified by the Iowa State Highway Commission in 1914.
Great Wolf Resorts
Great Wolf Resorts is a North American chain of indoor waterpark resorts, the largest on the continent, operating 23 lodges in the United States and Canada since 1997.
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk coastal town and port on a Yare-North Sea peninsula; medieval Europe's largest herring port, walled by 1396, seaside resort since the 1700s, now offshore wind and £150m Quayside regeneration.
Great Yarmouth First
Great Yarmouth First (GYF), localist political party in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, founded by MP Rupert Lowe in late 2025, registered March 2026 (PP18235), affiliated to Restore Britain, won nine Norfolk county seats in 2026.
Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur
Great Ziggurat of Aššur, temple tower of the god Ashur at Assur (Qal'at Sherqat), Iraq; first erected by Shamshi-Adad, rebuilt by Adad-nirari I, still standing, with 2025 UNESCO emergency conservation.
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe: ruined dry-stone capital of a Shona kingdom (11th–15th centuries) near Masvingo, Zimbabwe; Hill Complex, Great Enclosure, Valley Ruins; Indian Ocean gold trade; UNESCO site since 1986.
Great-circle distance
The great-circle distance, also known as spherical or orthodromic distance, is the shortest distance between two points on a sphere's surface, measured along the great circle passing through them.
Great-tailed grackle
Great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus, zanate mexicano), a large icterid blackbird of the Americas; males iridescent black with a long keeled tail, females brown and half the size; rapidly expanded north from Texas since 1900.
Greater (film)
Greater is a 2016 American biographical sports drama about Brandon Burlsworth, the Arkansas walk-on who became an All-American and died days after being drafted by the NFL.
Greater Accra Region
Greater Accra Region: Ghana's smallest region by area (3,245 km²) yet most populous (5.46 million, 2021 census), containing the capital Accra; 87.4% urban, 29 MMDAs, HDI 0.718.
Greater Albania
Greater Albania (Shqiperia e Madhe) is an irredentist concept uniting ethnic Albanians of Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Greece in one state. Realized only once, under Italian occupation 1941-1944; no major Albanian party advocates it today.
Greater and Lesser Tunbs
Greater and Lesser Tunbs (Tunb-e Bozorg and Tunb-e Kuchak): two Persian Gulf islands near the Strait of Hormuz seized by Iran on 30 November 1971 and claimed by the UAE emirate of Ras al-Khaimah; militarized by Iran, disputed at the UN, and struck during the 2026 war.
Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia is a British train operating company running passenger services from London Liverpool Street across East Anglia, including the Stansted Express, publicly owned since October 2025.
Greater Angostura
Greater Angostura is an offshore conventional oil and gas field in shallow water off the northeast coast of Trinidad, producing since first oil in 2005.
Greater Antilles
Greater Antilles: large West Indies island group (Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, usually Cayman and Virgin Islands), ~211,000 km², ~38 million people; old continental-fragment geology unlike the Lesser Antilles arc.
Greater Arab Free Trade Area
The Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) is a free trade agreement among Arab League states, signed in 1997 and eliminating tariffs on goods of Arab origin.
Greater Austin
Greater Austin is the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area in Central Texas, covering Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell counties. It had 2,620,945 residents in 2025 and is one of the fastest-growing large U.S. metros.
Greater Bay Area Cultural And Sports Centre Stadium
Greater Bay Area Cultural and Sports Centre Stadium (大湾区文化体育中心), or Greater Bay Stadium: 60,000-seat Zaha Hadid-designed stadium in Nansha, Guangzhou, opened 23 August 2025, built 2023–2025 for over 8 billion yuan.
Greater Bengaluru Authority
Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), Karnataka's apex body for Bengaluru under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act 2024, chaired by the Chief Minister; oversees five city corporations replacing BBMP, with elections directed for December 2026.
Greater Blue Mountains Area
The Greater Blue Mountains Area is a UNESCO World Heritage site of 1.03 million hectares of sandstone plateaux and eucalypt forest inland from Sydney, inscribed in 2000.
Greater Boston
Greater Boston: the metropolitan region around Boston, Massachusetts, defined statistically as the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH MSA and by MAPC's 101 cities and towns; hub-and-spoke suburbanization, Eds & Meds economy, MBTA transit, and acute housing affordability pressures.
Greater Buenos Aires
Greater Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires, GBA) is Argentina's main urban agglomeration, the capital city plus surrounding Buenos Aires Province districts; over 15 million people, formed from 1880, marked by gated communities, informal settlements, and the Matanza Riachuelo basin.
Greater Chennai Corporation
Greater Chennai Corporation (பெருநகர சென்னை மாநகராட்சி), the municipal body of Chennai, India; formerly the Corporation of Madras, inaugurated 29 September 1688, the earliest corporation in British India, with 15 zones, 200 wards, and 426 sq km.
Greater China
Greater China is a term for mainland China (PRC), Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (ROC), sometimes including Singapore and diaspora; prominent in 1990s economic and cultural usage, declining after 2000.
Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland is the metropolitan region around Cleveland, Ohio, anchored on Cuyahoga County; officially the six-county Cleveland-Elyria MSA, population about 2.17 million in 2025.
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA), also called Cleveland RTA, is the public transit agency serving Cleveland, Ohio, and Cuyahoga County, operating bus, rapid transit, and paratransit service since 1975.
Greater coucal
Greater coucal (Centropus sinensis), also called crow pheasant, a large non-parasitic cuckoo of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia; black with rusty wings, red eyes, IUCN Least Concern, monogamous nest-builder.
Greater Dandenong
City of Greater Dandenong, a Melbourne southeast local government area proclaimed 15 December 1994 from Dandenong and Springvale; 158,208 people (2021), 63% born overseas, home to Little India precinct.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亜共栄圏)
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亜共栄圏, Dai Tōa Kyōeiken) was Japan's declared 1940 vision of a Japanese-led Asian bloc, combining pan-Asianist propaganda with wartime economic mobilization until its collapse in 1945.
Greater East Asia Conference
The Greater East Asia Conference (大東亜会議) was a Tokyo summit in November 1943 of Japan, Manchukuo, and other Asian partners, which issued the Greater East Asia Joint Declaration.