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Grands-Ponts
Grands-Ponts, a coastal region of southern Côte d'Ivoire created in 2011, capital Dabou; three departments, 450,007 inhabitants (RGPH 2021), economy of fishing, rubber, oil palm, tourism near Abidjan.
Grisons
Grisons (Graubünden, Grigioni) is Switzerland's largest, most sparsely populated canton, its only trilingual canton (German, Romansh, Italian), formed from the 1524 Free State of the Three Leagues and a Swiss canton since 1803.
Grodnenskaya
Grodnenskaya (Гродненская) denotes Grodno region in western Belarus and the former Grodno Guberniya of the Russian Empire; 17 districts, about 840,000 people, capital Grodno, strong agriculture, and chemicals.
Guanajuato
Guanajuato, a central Mexican state in the Bajio region with capital Guanajuato city and 46 municipalities; founded 1823, population 6.4 million, mining heritage, industrial economy, and Mexico's highest homicide count.
Guangdong (广东)
Guangdong (广东) is China's southernmost mainland province and largest provincial economy: 179,800 sq km, 21 prefecture-level cities, 127.8 million people (2024), 2025 GDP of 14.58 trillion yuan, and the country's longest coastline at 4,114 km.
Guangxi
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), a provincial-level autonomous region of southern China founded 5 March 1958 for the Zhuang people; borders Vietnam and the Beibu Gulf, serves as China's land-and-sea gateway to ASEAN, area 237,600 km², 2025 GDP 2,972.7 billion yuan.
Guárico
Guárico, a central Venezuelan state in the llanos region, capital San Juan de los Morros, largest city Calabozo; fourth largest state, about 65,000 km2, 827,624 people, a rice and cattle economy built on the Río Guárico irrigation system.
Guelma Province
Guelma Province (ولاية قالمة) is a northeastern Algerian wilaya created in 1974, covering 3,686.84 km² with about 570,000 people, 34 communes, ancient Calama, and major thermal tourism.
Guerrero
Guerrero is a Pacific-coast state of Mexico created in 1849 from México, Puebla, and Michoacán territory, named for Vicente Guerrero, with capital Chilpancingo, resort Acapulco, high poverty, and among the country's highest violence costs.
Guizhou (贵州)
Guizhou (贵州) is a mountainous karst province in southwestern China on the Yungui Plateau, made a province in 1413, long among China's poorest, which relocated 1.92 million people in poverty alleviation and built a big data and computing economy.
Gulf Province
Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea: province on the northern shore of the Papuan Gulf, capital Kerema, two districts (Kerema, Kikori), 34,472 km², 203,545 people (2024 census), Purari and Kikori rivers, eravo longhouses and hevehe masks, Papua LNG.
Gunma Prefecture
Gunma Prefecture (群馬県), capital Maebashi, is a landlocked central-Honshu prefecture bordering five others; area 6,362 km², population about 1.86 million, top national producer of konnyaku and summer-autumn cabbage.
Gyeonggi Province (경기도)
Gyeonggi Province (경기도, Gyeonggi-do), South Korea's most populous province at 13.77 million (2026), surrounds Seoul, has its seat in Suwon, covers 10,202 km², and leads all Korean regions in GRDP.
Gyeongsangbuk-do
Gyeongsangbuk-do (경상북도), North Gyeongsang Province or Gyeongbuk, is a South Korean province in the southeast, 19,029 km² (19.1% of the country), named Gyeongsang-do in 1314, seated in Andong since 2016, with Silla and UNESCO heritage.
Gyeongsangnam-do
Gyeongsangnam-do (경상남도, South Gyeongsang Province) is a South Korean province in the southeast with capital Changwon; 10,537.97 km², 8 cities and 10 counties, about 3.2 million residents in 2025.
Győr-Moson-Sopron megye
Győr-Moson-Sopron megye (vármegye), northwestern Hungarian county on the Slovak and Austrian borders; seat Győr, second town Sopron. 4,208 km², about 446,000 people, Hungary's 2nd-ranked NUTS 3 region by GDP per capita, gateway for roughly 40% of national border traffic.
Hà Tĩnh
Tỉnh Hà Tĩnh (Ha Tinh province), North Central Vietnam; established 1831 under Minh Mệnh, re-established 1991. Borders Nghệ An, Quảng Trị, Laos; 5,994.85 km², 69 commune-level units, birthplace of Nguyễn Du.
Habsburg Netherlands
The Habsburg Netherlands, also known as the Habsburg Low Countries, were the Low Countries ruled by the House of Habsburg from 1482 until the Dutch Revolt split them in the late 1500s.
Hadjer-Lamis Region
Hadjer-Lamis (حجر لميس) is a province of western Chad, northeast of N'Djamena, whose capital Massakory lies about 148 km from the capital; it reaches Lake Chad's southern shore.
Haifa District
Haifa District (מחוז חיפה) is one of six Israeli administrative districts, containing Haifa and Hadera sub-districts, about 1.15 million residents, and the country's highest housing affordability and hospital bed provision.
Hainan (海南)
Hainan (海南) is China's southernmost province, comprising Hainan Island (33,900 km², second-largest island) and South China Sea archipelagoes. Capital Haikou; 10.55 million people; became a province and SEZ in 1988 and a province-wide Free Trade Port with island-wide customs closure on December 18, 2025.
Hajdú-Bihar
Hajdú-Bihar (Hajdú-Bihar vármegye), eastern Hungarian county, seat Debrecen; created 1950 from Hajdú County and truncated Bihar County. Area 6,210 km², density 83.67/km², dry Great Plain landscape with Hortobágy puszta.
Halland County
Halland County (Hallands län), west-coast Swedish county of six municipalities around Halmstad, 346,090 inhabitants in 2025; Danish province until ceded at Brömsebro 1645 and Roskilde 1658.
Hama Governorate
Hama Governorate (محافظة حماة), central Syria on the Orontes River, capital Hama city; five districts, ~1.5–1.8 million people, major agricultural and industrial region; captured by HTS in December 2024, later under Syrian government control with large-scale returns.
Hamadan Province
Hamadan Province (استان همدان), western Iran, capital Hamadan city; mountainous Zagros province of about 19,400–19,500 km² with roughly 1.7 million people, Alvand peak 3,580 m, major agriculture, granite mining, and the Hegmataneh (Ecbatana) archaeological site.
Hāora
Hāora (Howrah, হাওড়া) is a district of West Bengal, India, on the west bank of the Hooghly opposite Kolkata. Second smallest district of the state; 1,467 sq km, 4,850,029 people (2011), two subdivisions, industrial heritage, and flood-prone rivers.
Harare (district, 1105844)
Harare (GeoNames 1105844) is Harare Province, Zimbabwe's metropolitan ADM1 containing the capital, formerly Salisbury; its ADM2 Harare District had 1,491,740 people, province 2,427,209.
Harghita
Harghita (Județul Harghita) is a Romanian county in eastern Transylvania, seat Miercurea-Ciuc, 6,639 km², established 1968. 2021 census: 291,950 people, 79.51% Hungarian and 11.52% Romanian, the lowest Romanian share of any county.
Harju
Harju County (Harju maakond) is Estonia's most populous county, containing the capital Tallinn; it holds over 40% of the population, 60% of registered businesses, and about two-thirds of national GDP.
Haryana (हरियाणा)
Haryana (हरियाणा), a north-west Indian state formed 1 November 1966 from Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, covers 44,212 sq km, surrounds Delhi on three sides, and pairs a paddy-wheat agrarian economy with a major industrial and services base.