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Gaoping, Sichuan
Gaoping (高坪区) is a district of Nanchong, Sichuan, on the east bank of the Jialing River; 806 km², about 600,000 people, created 1993 from Nanchong County, home of Gaoping Airport and a distinct same-named town in Guanghan.
Gaozhou
Gaozhou (高州) is a county-level city of Maoming in southwestern Guangdong, China, with about 1.29 million people on 3,276 km². Known as China's lychee homeland, it plants over 59万亩 of lychee and hosts the national lychee germplasm repository.
Garching
Garching bei München is a town in the Munich district of Upper Bavaria, north of Munich, first recorded around 1020 (or 915) as Gouvirihhinga. It hosts the TUM research campus with over 7,500 staff and 20,300 students, the 1957 Atom-Ei reactor, and three U6 stations.
Garðabær
Garðabær, a Capital Region municipality in Iceland south of Reykjavík, had 20,724 inhabitants in 2026, became a town in 1976, merged with Álftanes in 2013, and hosts Bessastaðir.
Garden Grove, California
Garden Grove, California: an Orange County city of about 170,000 founded in 1874 by Alonzo Cook and incorporated June 18, 1956, known for the Strawberry Festival, Little Saigon, and Christ Cathedral.
Gardena, California
Gardena, California: South Bay city in Los Angeles County, incorporated September 11, 1930 from Gardena, Moneta, and Strawberry Park. Known as the Freeway City, former berry capital, historic Japanese American community, and home of California's first licensed card club (1936).
Garhi Khairo
Garhi Khairo is a tehsil and town in Jacobabad District, Sindh, Pakistan; 2023 census population 193,297, 89.65 percent rural, area 733 square kilometres, a former Hindu trade town known for Usto-mason architecture.
Garland, Texas
Garland, Texas, is a city in Dallas County founded in 1887 as a railroad town; its 2020 population was 246,018, making it Texas's 13th largest city.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavarian market town at the foot of the Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany's highest mountain, about 90 km from Munich. Formed by merging Garmisch and Partenkirchen in January 1935; hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics; major ski and tourism resort with housing pressure.
Garoua
Garoua is a city in northern Cameroon on the Benue River, chief town of the Nord Region and seat of a Fulani lamidat founded in 1809.
Gary, Indiana
Gary, Indiana: city founded 1906 by U.S. Steel as a company town for the Gary Works mill, named for Elbert H. Gary; peaked near 178,000 in 1960, now about 67,000, a Rust Belt steel city undergoing demolition and redevelopment.
Gastonia, North Carolina
Gastonia, North Carolina: county seat of Gaston County, incorporated 1877 as a railroad junction town, once a leading Southern textile center, now a Piedmont city of about 87,000 west of Charlotte.
Gated community
Gated community: a housing development restricting public access via gates, walls, fences, and security. Also called enclosed or walled residential enclaves; US units grew from 701,000 (1970) to 24 million (2009); crime effects mixed, segregation debated.
Gateshead
Gateshead: Tyne and Wear metropolitan borough on the south bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle; medieval borough under the Bishops of Durham, coal-mining and industrial town, now a culture-led regeneration area with BALTIC, the Glasshouse and Gateshead Quays.
Gatineau
Gatineau, Quebec's fourth-largest city (306,105 in 2025), on the Ottawa River across from Ottawa; formed in 2002 by merging Hull, Aylmer, Gatineau, Buckingham, and Masson-Angers; Outaouais regional metropolis.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Sevier County gateway city to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, incorporated 1945, about 3,700 residents, tourism-driven economy, site of the deadly 2016 Chimney Tops 2 wildfire.
Gauriganj
Gauriganj (गौरीगंज) is a town, tehsil, and Nagar Palika Parishad in Amethi district, Uttar Pradesh, India, and the district headquarters since the district's creation on 1 July 2010; town population 26,539 (2011), founded as a market by Raja Madho Singh of Amethi. Distinct from Gauriganj Rural Municipality in Jhapa, Nepal.
Gaza City
Gaza City (غزة, Ghazzah), largest city of the Gaza Strip on the Mediterranean coast; over 5,000 years of habitation, historic centre on UNESCO Tentative List; 83% of buildings damaged and famine confirmed after the 2023–2025 war.
Gaziantep
Gaziantep, large city in southeastern Türkiye, first UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy in the country (2015). Known for its Iron Age culinary heritage, Zeugma mosaics, export-driven industry, large Syrian refugee population, and 2023 earthquake recovery.
Gazipur
Gazipur (গাজীপুর), Bangladesh: industrial district and city north of Dhaka; Gazipur City Corporation, established 16 January 2013, is the country's largest by area (~330 km²) and a major garment hub.
Gboko
Gboko is a town and local government area in Benue State, Nigeria, headquarters of the Tiv division since 1932 and seat of the Tor Tiv, the Tiv paramount ruler.
Gdańsk
Gdańsk (Danzig), Baltic port city in northern Poland, largest city of Polish Pomerania and part of the Tricity conurbation with Sopot and Gdynia; about 488,000 residents, major container port, Free City of Danzig between the world wars.
Gdynia
Gdynia (Kashubian: Gdiniô) is a port city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, built from a fishing village in the 1920s around a purpose-built seaport.
Gedaref
Gedaref (القضارف, Al Qadarif, El-Gadarif) is the capital city of Al Qadarif State in eastern Sudan, near the Ethiopian border. It anchors Sudan's largest rain-fed farming region, producing most of the country's sorghum and sesame, and hosts large displaced and refugee populations.
Geelong
Geelong (Wadawurrung: Djilang) is Victoria's largest provincial city, 75 km south-west of Melbourne on Corio Bay. Population 295,052 (2025); historic wool port and gold-rush gateway, now a growing service economy and UNESCO City of Design.
Geislingen
Geislingen an der Steige, a town of about 26,800 in Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; founded by the Counts of Helfenstein, first named 1108, Ulm 1396-1802, industrialized via WMF.
Geita (city)
Geita, a gold-mining city in northwestern Tanzania and capital of Geita Region (created 2012), grew from 14,000 people in 1988 to over 360,000 by the 2022 census, driven by the Geita Gold Mine.
Gela
Gela (Greek Ghéla) is a Sicilian city, founded c. 689-688 BCE by Rhodian and Cretan colonists, mother city of Agrigento, ruled by tyrant Gelon, destroyed by Carthage in 405 BCE and by Phintias c. 282 BCE; modern Terranova, renamed 1927, petrochemical center.
Gelibolu
Gelibolu (Gallipoli, from Kallipolis) is a town and district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey, at the northern entrance of the Dardanelles; Ottoman naval base from 1354, population 33,062 (2025), mayor Ali Kamil Soyuak.
Gelnhausen
Gelnhausen (Barbarossastadt) is a Hessian town founded in 1170 by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa; site of the 1180 Gelnhausen Document against Henry the Lion, the Kaiserpfalz, and Grimmelshausen's birthplace.