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Fuqing (福清)
Fuqing (福清), abbreviated Rong (融), is a coastal county-level city of Fuzhou, Fujian, with 2,430 km² area, about 1.41 million people, 2025 GDP of 203.3 billion yuan, and the Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant.
Fürth, Bavaria
Fürth (Bavaria): kreisfreie city in Middle Franconia, Nuremberg–Erlangen triangle, Kleeblattstadt. First mentioned 1007; Adler railway 1835; Quelle and Grundig; ~132,600 residents (2025); climate-neutral by 2040.
Fuzhou
Fuzhou (福州) is the capital of China's Fujian province, a port city of 8.5 million on the Min River with over 2,200 years of history, and the mainland capital nearest Taiwan.
Gaborone
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana, built after 1966 independence as a planned garden city. It grew from 7,000 people to over 230,000 by 2011, facing water scarcity and rapid sprawl.
Gabrovo (Габрово)
Gabrovo (Габрово) is a town in central Bulgaria on the Yantra River, an industrial center known as the country's capital of humor and among its longest towns.
Gadag
Gadag (ಗದಗ) is a city and district in North Karnataka, India, formed 24 August 1997, known for Western Chalukya temples, Hindustani music heritage, dry-land farming, and wind energy projects.
Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden, Alabama: county seat of Etowah County on the Coosa River, population about 33,400. Former steel and tire manufacturing center (Gulf States Steel, Goodyear), now home to Minth Group's $430 million auto-parts plant and Noccalula Falls Park.
Gaffney, SC Micro Area
Gaffney, SC Micro Area (Gaffney, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area, CBSA 23500): an OMB-designated micropolitan area covering Cherokee County, South Carolina, with about 56,600 residents, Gaffney as principal city, and a specialized textile-and-services economy within the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA.
Gagnoa
Gagnoa, city in center-west Côte d'Ivoire, capital of Gôh-Djiboua district and Gôh region; 277,044 inhabitants (2021), ninth-largest city; cocoa and coffee trading hub, Bété cultural center.
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida, the largest city and county seat of Alachua County in north central Florida, founded 1854, incorporated 1869, and home of the University of Florida, which anchors its university-driven economy.
Gainesville, Georgia
Gainesville, Georgia, seat of Hall County, chartered 1821 as Mule Camp Springs and renamed for Gen. Edmund P. Gaines. Poultry Capital of the World on Lake Lanier, 52 miles northeast of Atlanta; 2020 census population 42,296.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Gaithersburg is a Montgomery County, Maryland city of about 69,657 (2020 census), home to NIST's 578-acre headquarters campus, reached by the 1873 B&O Metropolitan Branch, with 44.3% foreign-born residents.
Galaţi (city)
Galați (Galatz), city in eastern Romania on the left bank of the lower Danube near the Siret and Prut confluences; largest Danube river-maritime port, main steel center (ArcelorMittal), 2021 census 217,851, domicile population 288,873 in 2026.
Galena, Illinois
Galena, Illinois: a Jo Daviess County city in the Driftless Area, founded on lead mining in 1826, once the busiest Mississippi River port between St. Paul and St. Louis, home of Ulysses S. Grant, now a preserved historic tourist town.
Galkayo
Galkayo (Gaalkacyo), capital of Somalia's Mudug region, is a divided trade city: North Galkayo under Puntland, South under Galmudug, split since the 1993 Mudug Peace Agreement, with a major livestock market.
Galle
Galle (ගාල්ල, காலி) is a southwest Sri Lankan port city, capital of the Southern Province, home to the UNESCO-listed Dutch-built Galle Fort (inscribed 1988) and governed by Galle Municipal Council.
Gallup, New Mexico
Gallup, New Mexico (Na'nízhoozhí, 'The Bridge'), county seat of McKinley County: founded 1881 as an Atlantic and Pacific Railroad railhead, Route 66 town, Native American art hub, 2020 population 21,899, Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project.
Galveston, Texas
Galveston, Texas: island city chartered 1839, 19th-century principal Texas port, site of the deadly September 8, 1900 hurricane (about 8,000 deaths), seawall and grade-raising recovery, and today the 4th-ranked U.S. cruise port with about 53,700 residents.
Galway
Galway, or Gaillimh, is a city on Ireland's west coast where the River Corrib flows into Galway Bay. First recorded in 1124, it is known as the City of Tribes and a UNESCO City of Film.
Gandajika
Gandajika (Ngandajika), city and territory in Lomami Province, central DR Congo; INERA agricultural research center and site of the AfDB-financed Ngandajika Agro-Industrial Park (PRODAN); population about 208,000-346,000.
Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador
Gander, Newfoundland, and Labrador: town built around Gander International Airport, a 1938 transatlantic refueling hub and WWII Ferry Command base, famous for sheltering 6,600 stranded 9/11 passengers, inspiring Come From Away.
Gāndhīdhām
Gāndhīdhām is a planned city in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, India, built after the 1947 Partition to resettle Sindhi Hindu refugees and named after Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhinagar (ગાંધીનગર)
Gandhinagar (ગાંધીનગર), Gujarat's planned capital founded 2 August 1965 and named for Mahatma Gandhi, lies on the Sabarmati River north of Ahmedabad, with 30 grid sectors, about 208,000 people (2011), and GIFT City's IFSC.
Gandia
Gandia (Gandía), capital of La Safor county in Valencia province, Spain; Mediterranean ducal city with the Borja Ducal Palace, five kilometres of beaches, 83,135 inhabitants in 2025, and strong tourism and industrial growth.
Gangaikonda Cholapuram
Gangaikonda Cholapuram (கங்கை கொண்ட சோழபுரம்) is Rajendra Chola I's former Chola capital in Tamil Nadu, whose Brihadisvara Shiva temple, completed 1035 with a 53-m curved vimana, joined UNESCO's Great Living Chola Temples in 2004.
Gangtok (སྒང་ཐོག)
Gangtok (སྒང་ཐོག, sGang thog, "hilltop") is the capital and largest city of Sikkim, India, on a Himalayan ridge. Capital since 1894 under Chogyal Thutob Namgyal; British Political Agency established 1889; Sikkim's 22nd-state capital since 1975.
Ganja, Azerbaijan
Ganja (Gəncə), western Azerbaijan city on the Ganja Čāy river; historically Elisavetpol and Kirovabad; medieval capital of Arrān, home of poet Nizami Ganjavi; population about 330,700 in 2024.
Ganzhou (赣州)
Ganzhou (赣州), also Gannan, is Jiangxi's largest prefecture-level city in southern China: over 95% Hakka, Song dynasty walls and Fushougou drainage, Ruijin Soviet heritage, world-leading tung and rare earth reserves, and the world's largest navel orange planting area.
Gao
Gao (Mali): ancient Niger River trading city founded in the 7th century, capital of the Songhai Empire under Sunni Ali and Askia Mohamed, home of the 17-m Tomb of Askia (UNESCO, 2004), now a conflict-affected regional hub in northern Mali.
Gaomi
Gaomi (高密市) is a county-level city in eastern Shandong, China, under Weifang; Qin-era county, 858,000 residents (2024), manufacturing hub, home of Nobel laureate Mo Yan and four national folk-arts heritages.