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Gora Burun-Shibertuy
Gora Burun-Shibertuy (Гора Бурун-Шибертуй) is a 2,242 m mountain in the Chikokon Range, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia; distinct from the village Shibertuy in Buryatia and from Barun-Shabartuy (2,519 m).
Gora Chimtarga
Gora Chimtarga, also known as Kuhi Chimtarga, is a 5,489-meter peak in the Fann Mountains of Sughd Region, northwestern Tajikistan, and the range's highest summit.
Gora Golets-Oblachnyy
Gora Golets-Oblachnyy (Гора Голец-Облачный), a mountain in the Stanovoi Range, Ayano-Maysky Rayon, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia; elevation reported as 1,422 m (PeakVisor) or 1,575 m (Peakbagger), isolation 71.4 km.
Gora Khuvkhoitun
Gora Khuvkhoitun (Хувхойтун), also called Khuvkhoitun, is a late-Pleistocene extinct complex stratovolcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the highest peak of the northern Sredinny Range at 2,618 m with 1,920 m prominence, an ultra peak with no Holocene eruptions.
Gora Kurumdy
Gora Kurumdy (Гора Курумды), also written Kurumdy or Kurumdi, is a 6,614-meter peak in the Trans-Alay Range of the Pamir on the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border near China.
Gora Manas
Gora Manas (Гора Манас) names two Kyrgyz mountains: a 3,335 m peak in Chuy Region and Manas Peak, 4,482 m, the highest summit of the Talas Ala-Too in the Western Tien Shan, both named for the epic hero Manas.
Gora Radzhi-Bek (Kudara)
Gora Radzhi-Bek, also called Kudara, is a 5,735 m ultra-prominent Pamir summit in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, with 1,940 m prominence, parent Qullai Istiqlol, near the Kudara locality and river.
Gora Tardoki-Yani
Gora Tardoki-Yani (Гора Тордоки-Яни), also Tordoki-Yani, is the highest peak of the Sikhote-Alin in Nanai district, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, about 2,090 m, with glacial cirques, alpine tundra, and a notable arctic-alpine bryophyte flora.
Gora Tastau
Gora Tastau (Гора Тастау, Тастау тауы) is a 2,992 m peak in Abai Region, Kazakhstan, the highest summit of the Tarbagatay ridge in the Saur-Tarbagatay system, with 1,679 m prominence and no glaciation.
Göreme
Göreme is a town in Nevşehir Province, central Turkey, at the heart of Cappadocia, whose cliffs hold rock-cut dwellings and over 200 churches in a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 1985.
Gossler Islands
Gossler Islands: group of north-south trending islands 3 mi in extent, 1.5 mi west of Cape Monaco, Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; discovered and named by Dallmann's German expedition 1873-74 after Hamburg financier Herr Gossler.
Gotland
Gotland: Sweden's largest island and a Baltic Sea island, county, province and municipality in one, with Silurian limestone rauks, Hanseatic Visby's UNESCO ring wall, ~61,000 residents, cement at Slite, mass summer tourism, and renewed NATO-era military significance.
Gourdin Island
Gourdin Island (Gourdin, islotes) is the largest island in a group north of Prime Head, northern Antarctic Peninsula, at 63°12′S 57°18′W. Discovered by d'Urville's 1837–40 expedition and named for Ensign Jean Gourdin, it is IBA Ant027 with Adélie, gentoo, and chinstrap penguin colonies.
Governors Island
Governors Island: 172-acre island in New York Harbor, half a mile from Lower Manhattan; former Army and Coast Guard post (1800–1996), now a public park with a 22-acre National Monument and a climate research mission.
Gozo
Gozo (Għawdex), Malta's second-largest island, 67 km² about 8 km offshore, population around 34,000; rural, home to the Ġgantija temples, ferry-linked to Malta, with per capita GDP at 63.6% of the national level.
Graham Bell Island
Graham Bell Island, an island in eastern Franz Josef Land, Barents Sea, Arctic Russia; about 1,640-1,708 km2, 71 percent glaciated, discovered by Baldwin in 1899, later a Soviet strategic-bomber ice airfield.
Graham Island
Graham Island, British Columbia: the northern and largest island of Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), over 6,000 square km, named 1853 by Commander Prevost after Sir James Robert Graham; distinct from Graham Islands in Nunavut, Australia, and Graham Land, Antarctica.
Graham Land
Graham Land is the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, north of the Cape Jeremy–Cape Agassiz line, named in 1832 after Sir James Graham; the 1934–37 Rymill expedition proved it is part of the continent, and a 1964 US-UK agreement fixed its modern scope.
Grain Coast
Grain Coast, also called Pepper Coast or Malagueta Coast, a historical Atlantic region of West Africa roughly matching modern Liberia, named for its fifteenth-century export trade in grains of paradise (melegueta pepper).
Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria is a volcanic Canary Island of about 1,560 km2 with capital Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; conquered by Castile from 1478, a royal (realengo) island, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 2005, and a major European tourist destination.
Gran Chaco (landform)
Gran Chaco (landform): vast semiarid lowland plain and dry forest, ~1.1 million km² across Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil; South America's second-largest forest and a global deforestation hotspot.
Gran Paradiso
Gran Paradiso, 4,061 m, highest peak of the Graian Alps in northwest Italy and the only 4,000 m peak entirely on Italian territory; first climbed in 1860, centerpiece of Italy's oldest national park (1922).
Gran Sasso d'Italia
Gran Sasso d'Italia: limestone massif in the Abruzzo Apennines, central Italy; Corno Grande (2,912 m) is the Apennines' highest peak, with Europe's southernmost glacier, Campo Imperatore plateau, and the LNGS underground lab beneath.
Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama, northernmost Bahamian island on the Little Bahama Bank, home to Freeport, the country's second city and shipping hub; devastated by Hurricane Dorian in 2019, now rebounding on cruise tourism and multi-billion-dollar investment.
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon: mile-deep Colorado River gorge in northwestern Arizona; 278 river miles protected in a 1,904 sq mi national park, UNESCO site since 1979, 4.4 million 2025 visitors, hit by the 2025 Dragon Bravo Fire and 2026 flash flood.
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean, home to George Town, Seven Mile Beach, and an economy built on financial services and tourism.
Grand Coulee
Grand Coulee: ancient riverbed and largest canyon of Washington's Channeled Scabland, carved by Missoula megafloods; upper reach now holds Banks Lake behind Grand Coulee Dam.
Grand Erg Occidental
Grand Erg Occidental (al-ʿIrq al-Ḡarbī al-Kabīr), the Western Sand Sea, is an 80,000 km² erg of dunes in northern Algeria's Sahara, the smaller western counterpart of the Grand Erg Oriental.
Grand Erg Oriental
Grand Erg Oriental, or Great Eastern Erg, is a roughly 140,000 km2 Saharan sand sea mainly in Algeria, extending into Libya and Tunisia, with linear dunes over 100 m and star dunes over 300 m tall.
Grand Turk Island
Grand Turk Island, Turks and Caicos: capital Cockburn Town since 1766, 18 km², 4,831 residents (2012). Historic Bermudian sea-salt island, John Glenn's 1962 landing site, and home of the Carnival-operated Grand Turk Cruise Center.