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Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship (województwo wielkopolskie), a province of west-central Poland created January 1, 1999 from Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Leszno and part of Piła voivodeships; capital region of historical Wielkopolska.
Greater racket-tailed drongo
Greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus), an Asian Dicruridae passerine with racket-tipped tail streamers, 70–125 g, renowned for context-dependent vocal mimicry of other birds' alarm calls; IUCN Least Concern.
Greater Reconstruction
Greater Reconstruction is a historiographical framework from Elliott West's 2011 The Last Indian War, extending Reconstruction (1865-1877) nationally to include the American West, federal expansion, and citizenship, from 1845 onward.
Greater Republic of Central America
The Greater Republic of Central America (República Mayor de Centro América), 1896-1898, united El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua under the Treaty of Amapala for external sovereignty via a three-member Diet, dissolved in late 1898.
Greater roadrunner
Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus, correcaminos grande): a long-legged ground cuckoo of the southwestern US and Mexico, running about 15 mph, eating reptiles and small mammals, population 1.4 million, IUCN Least Concern.
Greater Romania
Greater Romania (România Mare) was the enlarged Kingdom of Romania after the 1918 unions with Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania, roughly doubling its size, until 1940 losses; the term also names later Romanian irredentism.
Greater Serbia
Greater Serbia (Velika Srbija) is a Serbian irredentist concept from Garašanin's 1844 Načertanije, combining medieval-territorial and ethnic-unification claims, pursued through the 1990s Yugoslav Wars and echoed in the post-2020 Serbian world discourse.
Greater Somalia
Greater Somalia (Soomaaliweyn) is the Somali irredentist project uniting five colonial-era Somali territories: British and Italian Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia's Ogaden, and Kenya's NFD; tested by the 1977–78 Ogaden War defeat.
Greater St. Louis
St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan statistical area: OMB-defined bi-state region of 14 counties plus the independent city of St. Louis; about 2.81 million residents in 2025, peaking at 2.83 million in 2009.
Greater Sudbury
Greater Sudbury (Grand Sudbury) is a 3,186 km² single-tier city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada's second-largest municipality by area, formed by 2001 amalgamation, a world-class nickel-copper mining centre with 166,004 residents (2021) and a bilingual population.
Greater Sunda Islands
Greater Sunda Islands: Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi, the large western islands of the Malay Archipelago on the shallow Sunda Shelf, land-bridged during Pleistocene lowstands and bounded east by Wallace's Line.
Greater Sunrise
Greater Sunrise is an undeveloped gas and condensate field in the Timor Sea, discovered by Woodside in 1974, held undeveloped for decades by maritime boundary disputes between Australia and Timor-Leste.
Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
Greater Swiss Mountain Dog (Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund), the "Swissy": largest and oldest of the four Swiss Sennenhund breeds, a tricolored draft and farm dog recognized by the AKC Working Group in 1995, able to pull over 3,000 pounds.
Greater Sydney
Greater Sydney is the Sydney metropolitan region, defined statistically as ABS GCCSA 1GSYD and legally as a listed set of NSW local government areas. 5.23 million people (2021); planned under the 2026 Sydney Plan, replacing A Metropolis of Three Cities.
Greater Tokyo Area (首都圏)
Greater Tokyo Area (首都圏, Shuto-ken): the metropolitan region of Tokyo plus Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba; 36.986 million people (2025 census, 30.1% of Japan), the world's largest metropolitan area and about one-third of national GDP.
Greater Toronto Area
Greater Toronto Area (GTA): Ontario planning region of Toronto plus Durham, York, Peel, and Halton regions; Canada's most populous metro area, distinct from the Toronto CMA and GTHA.
Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FLNG Terminal
The Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FLNG Terminal is a floating liquefied natural gas facility moored offshore on the maritime border between Mauritania and Senegal, which made both countries LNG exporters in 2025.
Greater trochanter
Greater trochanter (trochanter major): the quadrilateral bony eminence on the proximal lateral femur, attachment site for gluteus medius, minimus, piriformis, and obturator muscles; ossifies around age 4, linked to GTPS and fractures.
Greater trochanteric pain syndrome
Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS), formerly trochanteric bursitis, is chronic lateral hip pain from gluteal tendinopathy; affects 10-25% of people, mostly middle-aged women, treated first with education plus exercise.
Greater Vancouver
Metro Vancouver Regional District, commonly known as Metro Vancouver and formerly the Greater Vancouver Regional District, is a British Columbia regional district serving about 3 million residents.
Greater Western Sydney Giants
Greater Western Sydney Giants (GWS GIANTS), AFL club, 18th licence, debuted 2012, based Western Sydney with Canberra games; orange and charcoal, 2019 Grand Final loss, no premiership, Kevin Sheedy first coach.
Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park
Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (G.W. Zoo), Joe Exotic's roadside zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, later run by Jeff and Lauren Lowe; closed after USDA license suspension, a DOJ lawsuit, seizure of big cats, and sale with a 100-year zoo ban.
Greater-than sign
The greater-than sign (>) is a mathematical symbol indicating the value on its left exceeds the value on its right, first printed in Thomas Harriot's 1631 algebra book.
Greatest common divisor
The greatest common divisor, also known as the highest common factor, is the largest positive integer that divides two integers, found by the Euclidean algorithm from Euclid's Elements.
Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation is the American cohort born about 1901-1927, also called the G.I. Generation, shaped by the Great Depression and World War II; the name was popularized by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book, not coined by him.
Greatest Hits (1992 Kylie Minogue album)
Greatest Hits is Kylie Minogue's August 1992 PWL compilation of her Stock Aitken Waterman-era singles, released 24 August 1992 with 22 tracks; it debuted at UK Albums Chart number 1, her third UK number-one album, and sold about 2.5 million equivalent copies.
Greatest Hits (Alien Ant Farm album)
Greatest Hits (1999) is Alien Ant Farm's tongue-in-cheek-titled debut studio album, not a compilation, self-released on Chick Music Records, produced by Jim Wirt, winning Best Independent Album at the 1999 LA Music Awards.
Greatest Hits (Avril Lavigne album)
Greatest Hits is Avril Lavigne's first career-spanning compilation, released 21 June 2024 on Legacy Recordings: 20 tracks from Let Go (2002) to Love Sux (2022), paired with first vinyl reissues of four albums and a sold-out Greatest Hits tour.
Greatest Hits (Björk album)
Greatest Hits is Björk's 2002 compilation album on One Little Indian, whose 15-track list was chosen by fans in an online website vote, ordered by votes, opening with All Is Full of Love and closing with the new song It's in Our Hands.
Greatest Hits (James Taylor album)
Greatest Hits (also Greatest Hits, Vol. 1) is James Taylor's first compilation, released November 1, 1976 by Warner Bros. at the end of his contract; it re-recorded two 1968 songs and became his best-selling album, 11× Platinum in the US.