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Grise Fiord
Grise Fiord (Ausuittuq, "place that never thaws") is Canada's northernmost community, a hamlet of about 150 on southern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, founded by the 1953–55 High Arctic relocation of Inuit families from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet, for which Canada apologized in 2010.
Gródek nad Bugiem
Gródek nad Bugiem (Gródek Nadbużny), a village in Hrubieszów County, Poland, at the Huczwa-Bug confluence; its early medieval stronghold is identified with Volhyn' of the Primary Chronicle, and its site 29 burials supplied ancient DNA for a 2025 Nature study on Slavic migration.
Grytviken
Grytviken, South Georgia's first whaling station, founded by Carl Anton Larsen in 1904; operated to the mid-1960s, processed part of 175,250 whales, holds Shackleton's grave, the South Georgia Museum, and the Commensalis Whale Memorial.
Gucun
Gucun (顾村镇) is a town in Baoshan District, Shanghai, 41.66 km², home to Gucun Park and its Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival and the Shanghai Robot Industrial Park with about 300 enterprises; distinct from a same-named village in Linwu, Hunan.
Guilden Morden
Guilden Morden: scattered polyfocal village and parish (1,052 ha) in south-west Cambridgeshire, with a 6000 BC axehead find, a scheduled Roman winged-corridor villa, 180-burial Roman cemetery, and Domesday manors under Sheriff Picot.
Guntersdorf
Guntersdorf, a market town in Hollabrunn district, Lower Austria, population 1,176 (2026); includes Großnondorf, SC Guntersdorf football club (founded 1946), fire brigade 1885, B303 road rebuild 2023-2026.
Gurzuf
Gurzuf (Гурзуф) is a Crimean resort town 16 km from Yalta, pop 9,150 (2001). Nearby Gurzuf Saddle Pass (1,434 m) held an ancient sanctuary with 313 coins and the Black Sea coast's largest Roman military-equipment find; Procopius names its Byzantine fortress Gorzuvity.
Gush Katif (גוש קטיף)
Gush Katif (גוש קטיף) was a bloc of 18 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip, home to about 7,800 people before Israel evacuated and dismantled it in August 2005.
Gvardeyskoye, Chechen Republic
Gvardeyskoye (Ielin-Yurt, formerly Ali-Yurt) is a selo on the right bank of the Terek in Nadterechny District, Chechnya; 8,836 people (2021), Chechen-majority, agriculture-based, 95 km northwest of Grozny.
Gweedore
Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), a district and parish in the Donegal Gaeltacht, northwest Ireland, south of Bloody Foreland; the largest Irish-speaking everyday community, with Errigal, Bunbeg, Derrybeg, and a strong Gaelic tradition.
Haardorf
Haardorf is a German village on the Danube, the site of the Kleinkastell Osterhofen-Haardorf, a small Roman fortlet found by aerial survey in the early 1980s and excavated in 1992.
Haceby
Haceby, Lincolnshire: village in Newton and Haceby parish, North Kesteven, with a scheduled Roman villa found in 1818, excavated by RAF Cranwell in 1928-29, and a 1086 Domesday record of four manors under Gilbert of Ghent.
Hacheston
Hacheston, Suffolk: village and parish near Wickham Market with a 30-hectare Romano-British small town at Lower Hacheston, a 1086 Domesday entry of five manors, and 376 residents in 2021.
Hacienda Luisita
Hacienda Luisita, a 6,453-hectare Tarlac sugar estate bought by the Cojuangcos in 1957, site of the 2004 massacre and the 2011 Supreme Court-ordered land distribution to farmworkers.
Hales
Hales: English place name. Hale (or Heal) is a hamlet and chapelry in Farnham parish, Surrey; Hales in Norfolk is a Domesday settlement; and Hales Roman Villa in Loggerheads, Staffordshire, is a scheduled 2nd-century villa and bath house.
Hamfelde
Hamfelde: name of two Schleswig-Holstein villages, in Herzogtum Lauenburg and Kreis Stormarn, and of a Roman Iron Age urnfield near the former, published by Bantelmann in 1971 with over 800 graves.
Hamlet (place)
Hamlet (place): a small rural settlement smaller than a village, from Old French hamel; typically a few houses or farms, under about 100 people, with few or no services and often no church.
Hashtsāl
Hashtsāl (Hashtsal, Hastsal) is a census town, village, and locality in Patel Nagar, West Delhi, India, with 176,877 residents in 2011. It is known for the Hashtsal Minar, a 1650 Shah Jahan hunting tower.
Haworth
Haworth, West Yorkshire: hill village home of the Brontë family from 1820, site of the Brontë Parsonage Museum (1928), Brontë Society (1893), and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway heritage line.
Hazelton, British Columbia
Hazelton (Old Hazelton), a village municipality in Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, at the Skeena-Bulkley confluence near Gitanmaax; incorporated 1956, founded 1866, home of 'Ksan Historical Village and the Hagwilget Bridge.
Hecun
Hecun (和村) is a populated place in Handan, Hebei Province, China, recorded as early as 713 AD and now part of the Fengfeng Mining District.
Hell, Michigan
Hell, Michigan: unincorporated community in Putnam Township, Livingston County, southeast Michigan, about 20 miles northwest of Ann Arbor; named since 1841, founded by George Reeves, a novelty tourist town of 266 people (2000).
Hell, Norway
Hell is a village in Stjørdal Municipality, Trøndelag, Norway, at the Stjørdalselva mouth near Trondheim Airport Værnes. Its name, from Old Norse hellir (cave), and the Hell Station rail junction draw international tourists.
Helpston
Helpston (Helpstone), a village in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, birthplace of poet John Clare. Community test pits found a Roman farmstead, a 4th-century Roman house behind the Exeter Arms, and Saxon to medieval occupation.
Hepu
Hepu (合浦) is a county of Beihai, Guangxi, China, and the site of a Han-dynasty commandery and port established in 111 BC, a departure point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road, known for its Han tombs, imported Parthian and Indian goods, and pearls.
High Ham
High Ham, Somerset village (Domesday Hane, 1086) with two Roman villas: Low Ham villa with the Dido and Aeneas mosaic, and the Langport Ranges villa excavated in 1861 and by Time Team in 2010.
Highlands Ranch
Highlands Ranch, Colorado: unincorporated master-planned CDP in Douglas County, 12 miles south of Denver; founded 1981 by Mission Viejo on a 22,000-acre ranch, completed by Shea Homes; 103,444 residents (2020).
Hinkley, California
Hinkley, CA, is an unincorporated Mojave Desert community in San Bernardino County, California, west of Barstow, founded in 1881 and known for the PG&E chromium contamination case.
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama (白川郷・五箇山の合掌造り集落)
UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995) of three Japanese villages, Ogimachi, Ainokura, and Suganuma, preserving gassho-zukuri farmhouses with steep 60-degree thatched roofs built for heavy snow and silkworm raising.
Hokitika
Hokitika, a West Coast South Island town about 40 km south of Greymouth, New Zealand, boomed as a gold-rush port from 1864, was briefly the country's second-busiest port, and is now known for pounamu carving, Hokitika Gorge, and its driftwood beach.