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Gavril Genovo
Gavril Genovo (Гаврил Геново) is a village in Montana Province, Bulgaria, formed in 1958 by merging Ilica and Sochotino and named for revolutionary Gavril Genov, leader of the 1923 Vratsa uprising; population 273.
Gaydon
Gaydon is a village and parish in Warwickshire, England, near Leamington Spa, population 446 (2011). Known for RAF Gaydon (1941–1974) and its motor-industry sites: Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin, and the British Motor Museum.
Geiranger
Geiranger is a village of about 215 residents in Stranda, Norway, at the head of the Geirangerfjorden, a UNESCO World Heritage fjord since 2005, a major cruise destination facing overtourism, zero-emission shipping rules from 2026, and Åknes rockslide tsunami risk.
Génolhac
Génolhac, Gard commune in the Cévennes at the foot of Mont Lozère; medieval village on the Régordane road (GR700), charter of 1228, Dominicans from 1302, 1880 lead-silver mining concession, tannin factory until 1964.
Georgetown, Ontario
Georgetown is a community in Halton Hills, Ontario, about 29 km west of Toronto, founded as a milling settlement by the Kennedy family in the 1820s.
Gestingthorpe
Gestingthorpe, a village in Braintree district, Essex, England, site of the Hill Farm Roman villa, a scheduled monument excavated by Harold Cooper from 1949 to 1975, with Domesday and medieval history.
Gewogs of Bhutan
Gewogs of Bhutan covers the gewog, Bhutan's county-level rural unit: 205 gewogs within 20 districts, each governed by an elected Gewog Tshogde headed by a gup.
Ghajar (غجر)
Ghajar (غجر) is an Alawite village of about 3,000 on the Hasbani river at the junction of Israel, Lebanon, and the Golan Heights, split by the UN Blue Line in 2000.
Ghost town
Ghost town: a once-prosperous community deserted after economic reversal, disaster, or resource depletion. Also called abandoned settlements or busttowns; classic examples are American West mining towns like Bodie and Tombstone.
Ghost towns of Australia
Ghost towns of Australia are mining settlements abandoned after resource extraction ceased, with 612 identified in Western Australia alone; Coolgardie fell from 15,000 people to under 200.
Gimli, Manitoba
Gimli, Manitoba: lakeside town on Lake Winnipeg, 80 km north of Winnipeg, founded 1875 by Icelandic settlers as capital of New Iceland; home of the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba (Íslendingadagurinn), New Iceland Heritage Museum, and Crown Royal distillery.
Giurgiulești
Giurgiulești is Moldova's southernmost village, in Cahul District at the Prut-Danube confluence, first documented in 1484 and home to the Giurgiulești International Free Port and state port, the country's only sea-river access.
Giverny
Giverny, a village in Normandy's Eure department (75 km from Paris), is Claude Monet's home from 1883 to 1926; his house, Clos Normand, and water lily garden draw about 775,000 annual visitors, making it one of France's most visited villages.
Glencoe, Highland
Glencoe, in Gaelic Gleann Comhann, is a glen in Lochaber, Scotland, where the village of Glencoe draws over two million visitors a year and the MacDonalds were massacred in 1692.
Glenfinnan
Glenfinnan, a hamlet at the head of Loch Shiel in the Scottish Highlands, is home to the 1815 Jacobite Monument and the 21-arch concrete Glenfinnan Viaduct (1897–1901), crossed by the Harry Potter-famous Jacobite steam train.
Gloriavale Christian Community
Gloriavale Christian Community, also called the Springbank Christian Community, is a communal conservative Christian sect of about 600 people at Haupiri, New Zealand, founded in 1969 by Neville Cooper (Hopeful Christian); distinguished by shared property under the Christian Church Community Trust, 2022 Employment Court employee rulings, and loss of charitable status in 2026.
Glyfa
Glyfa (Γλύφα, also Glyfada) is a coastal Central Greek village whose Palaeokastron hill carries a late 4th-early 3rd century BC fortification, the acropolis of an unidentified city of ancient Western Locris, with two precincts and eight towers.
Gomotartsi
Gomotartsi (Гомотарци) is a village on the Danube River in the municipality of Vidin, Vidin Province, northwestern Bulgaria, known for its winegrowing tradition and nearby ancient sites.
Gongheyong
Gongheyong (共和涌) is a populated place in Guangdong, China, near Shenzhen at 22.76 N, 113.79 E, elevation 2 m, population about 204,881; a smaller namesake exists in Liaoning.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded in the 1820s by the Aire and Calder Navigation around its canal and docks; known for Tom Puddings coal hoists, the Grade II Lowther Hotel, and current Siemens Mobility rail manufacturing.
Gordes
Gordes, Vaucluse hilltop village in Provence, France, among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France; known for its 1031 castle, Sénanque Abbey (1148), and the Village des Bories dry-stone huts.
Goring-on-Thames
Goring-on-Thames: Oxfordshire village in the Goring Gap on the Thames, opposite Streatley; Domesday manor of Robert d'Oilly, Ridgeway crossing, Gatehampton Roman villa, GWR village of about 3,500 residents.
Gorni Lom
Gorni Lom (Горни Лом) is a village in Chuprene municipality, northwestern Bulgaria. It is known for hikers accessing Midzhur and the Midzhur explosives site, which saw two explosions.
Govezhda
Govezhda (Говежда) is a village in Georgi Damyanovo Municipality, Montana Province, northwestern Bulgaria, also the name of an ancient hillfort (Pleiades 207151, BAtlas 21 E6) with the Cherno gradishte Thracian-Roman fortress nearby.
Gradeshnitsa
Gradeshnitsa (Градешница) is a village in Vratsa Province, northwestern Bulgaria, 38 km northwest of Vratsa. It is known for its Early Chalcolithic settlement, the eponymous Gradeshnitsa culture of the first half of the 5th millennium BC, and the undeciphered Gradeshnitsa tablet found in 1969.
Great Neck, New York
Great Neck, New York: a North Shore Long Island peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, also called Madnan's Neck, comprising nine incorporated villages, the Great Neck school district, and a Gold Coast history tied to the LIRR and The Great Gatsby.
Great Tew
Great Tew: village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills, Oxfordshire, 5 miles east of Chipping Norton. Roman villa at Beaconsfield Farm, Domesday manor of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, home of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, and his literary circle, with a Grade II registered Repton-influenced park.
Greetwell
Greetwell, Lincolnshire: village east of Lincoln with the destroyed Greetwell Fields Roman villa-palace, found 1883-84 during ironstone quarrying; possibly a late Roman governor's residence.
Grimston
Grimston, Norfolk: village and parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 9.5 km east of King's Lynn. Known for its Roman villa at Watery Lane, medieval pottery industry (Thetford ware, exported to Sweden and Norway), and Domesday record.
Grindelwald
Grindelwald, Bern, Switzerland: alpine resort village at 1,050 m under the Eiger, 171 km² municipality, about 4,300 residents, served by the 1890 Bernese Oberland Railway and the Jungfrau Railway, now debating overtourism and a hotel-building stop.