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Greater East Asia Declaration
The Greater East Asia Declaration (大東亜宣言) is a 1943 statement of war aims adopted by six Japan-aligned governments at the Greater East Asia Conference in Tokyo.
Greater East Asia War
The Greater East Asia War (大東亜戦争) is the name Japan's government gave in 1941 to its war against the Allies, ended by surrender in 1945.
Greater flamingo
Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), largest and most widespread flamingo, across Africa, western Asia, southern Europe; shallow-keeled filter feeder of saline wetlands; Least Concern globally.
Greater fool theory
Greater fool theory, also known as the bigger fool theory, is a finance theory describing investors who buy overpriced assets expecting to resell them at a higher price.
Greater Geelong
Greater Geelong is a Victorian local government area (LGA22750) centred on Geelong, 75 km southwest of Melbourne. Victoria's largest regional municipality: 295,052 residents (June 2025), formed 18 May 1993 from six councils, governed by the City of Greater Geelong.
Greater Germanic Reich
Greater Germanic Reich (Großgermanisches Reich), the projected Nazi empire of German hegemony over Europe, distinct from the actual Greater German Reich state; covered via its racial ideology, Himmler's settlement and Germanization plans, forced labor, capital plans, and historiography.
Greater Houston
Greater Houston, also called the Houston metropolitan area, is the ten-county region around Houston, Texas, home to about 7.8 million people and a leading oil and gas center.
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (గ్రేటర్ హైదరాబాద్ మున్సిపల్ కార్పొరేషన్)
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (గ్రేటర్ హైదరాబాద్ మున్సిపల్ కార్పొరేషన్) is Hyderabad's civic body, governed by the GHMC Act 1955, expanded in 2025 to 12 zones, 60 circles and 300 wards after merging 27 urban local bodies.
Greater India
Greater India (वृहत्तर भारत, Further India): concept framing Southeast and Central Asia as shaped by ancient Indian Hindu-Buddhist culture; interwar Indian scholarly movement (1926-1945, Greater India Society, Calcutta), anti-colonial yet nationalist, later linked to Nehru, Majumdar, Panikkar, Akhand Bharat revival.
Greater Iran
Greater Iran (Irān-e Bozorg, Īrānshahr), also called Greater Persia or the Iranian Cultural Continent, is the cultural region from Anatolia to the Indus where Iranian languages and culture historically prevailed.
Greater Israel
Greater Israel, Hebrew Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah, is an Israeli irredentist idea claiming Jewish entitlement to land far beyond the state's pre-1967 boundaries, contested in Israeli politics.
Greater Japan Women's Association
The Greater Japan Women's Association (大日本婦人会, Dai Nippon Fujinkai) was a government-organized women's organization of wartime Japan, formed in February 1942 by merging three major women's groups.
Greater Khingan
Greater Khingan (大兴安岭, Da Hinggan Ling) is a 1,400-km NNE-SSW mountain range in northeastern China and eastern Mongolia, separating the Mongolian Plateau from the Songliao Plain and marking China's monsoon, steppe, and topographic-step boundaries.
Greater Khorasan
Greater Khorasan (خراسان) is the historical eastern Iranian region spanning northeastern Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia; a Sasanian quarter, cradle of the Abbasid revolution, and Samanid-era Persianate center.
Greater kudu
Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), a large spiral-horned African antelope, one of the tallest, with 6-10 white stripes and male horns to 1.8 m; IUCN Least Concern, about 482,000 across eastern and southern Africa.
Greater Lebanon (دولة لبنان الكبير)
Greater Lebanon (دولة لبنان الكبير, État du Grand Liban) was the state France proclaimed on 1 September 1920, enlarging the 1861 Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate with coastal, northern, southern, and Beqaa territories under mandate, replaced by the Lebanese Republic in 1926.
Greater Liberia
Greater Liberia was the NPFL-held territory under Charles Taylor during Liberia's first civil war, covering about 90 percent of the country from Gbarnga, with its own Buchanan port, currency, and banking system, ending with Taylor's 1997 election.
Greater London
Greater London: the administrative area of 32 London boroughs, the City of London and the Temples, created by the London Government Act 1963, covering about 1,572 km2 with almost nine million residents and governed by the Greater London Authority.
Greater London Authority
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is London's strategic devolved government, created in 2000 by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 after the 1998 referendum. It comprises the elected Mayor of London as executive and the 25-member London Assembly as scrutiny body, with a £20.7bn budget covering transport, policing, fire, planning, and environment.
Greater London Plan
The Greater London Plan 1944 is a strategic plan by Patrick Abercrombie that proposed moving over a million Londoners into new towns beyond a green belt.
Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles: Southern California urban region centered on Los Angeles, also called the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Spans Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties; about 19 million people; defined by OMB statistical areas and shaped by aqueduct water and freeway growth.
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester: metropolitan county in North West England of ten boroughs (Bolton to Wigan), created 1974, county council abolished 1986; home of the first English combined authority (2011) and directly elected mayor (2017), the UK's flagship devolution case.
Greater Mexico City
Greater Mexico City (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México) is Mexico City's official metropolitan area across Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Hidalgo, and Morelos; 84 municipalities, about 20 million people, roughly 25% of national GDP.
Greater Middle East
Greater Middle East: political term for an extended Middle East from Morocco to Afghanistan, sometimes Southeast Asia; framed the 2004 US G8 Greater Middle East Initiative, renamed BMENA, later stillborn.
Greater Montreal
Greater Montreal (Grand Montréal) is Canada's second-largest metropolitan area, the Montréal census metropolitan area in Quebec: 4,291,732 residents in 2021, 4,615,154 by July 2024, about half of Quebec's population, governed across 82 municipalities.
Greater Nile Oil Pipeline
The Greater Nile Oil Pipeline is a 1,610 km crude oil pipeline in Sudan running from the Heglig oil fields to the Bashayer terminal on the Red Sea.
Greater Noida (ग्रेटर नोएडा)
Greater Noida (ग्रेटर नोएडा) is a planned industrial township in Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, developed by GNIDA since January 1991 under the UP Industrial Area Development Act 1976, distinct from Noida (1976) and Greater Noida West.
Greater omentum
Greater omentum (great epiploon): the largest peritoneal fold, a four-layer fatty apron from the stomach's greater curvature over the transverse colon; immune milky spots, gastroepiploic blood supply, omental caking in ovarian cancer, surgical flaps.
Greater Orlando
Greater Orlando, the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford MSA of Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties, Florida: a 2.94-million-resident, 75.3-million-visitor metro led by theme parks, rapid growth, and a large Puerto Rican community.
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19)
The Greater Poland Uprising (Powstanie wielkopolskie) was a Polish armed rising against German rule in Poznań, begun in December 1918 and victorious by early 1919.