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Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen, a Ruhr city in North Rhine-Westphalia with about 265,000 residents, chartered in 1875, once called the City of a Thousand Fires for its coal and steel industry, now focused on urban renewal.
Gemeente Het Bildt
Gemeente Het Bildt, former Frisian municipality (1816–2018), CBS code 0063, seat St.-Annaparochie; reclaimed polder of 1503, merged into Waadhoeke in 2018.
Gemeente Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland
Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (Kollumerland c.a.), former municipality in northeast Friesland, Netherlands, existing 1816–2019 with Kollum as main village; merged into Noardeast-Fryslân on 1 January 2019.
Gemeente Ouderkerk
Gemeente Ouderkerk (GM0644) was a South Holland municipality, 1985–2015, formed by merging Ouderkerk aan den IJssel and Gouderak and dissolved into Krimpenerwaard; 8,241 residents at abolition.
Gemena
Located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gemena is the capital of Sud-Ubangi province. The city acts as the administrative, commercial, and educational center of the region.
Geneina
Geneina (El Geneina) is the capital of West Darfur, Sudan, a former Masalit Sultanate capital of about 540,000 people; RSF forces killed 10,000–15,000 there in 2023 and expelled over 570,000 Massalit to Chad.
General Santos
General Santos (GenSan) is a highly urbanized city on Sarangani Bay, southern Mindanao, Philippines; the Tuna Capital with 722,059 residents (2024), a PhP 152.60 billion economy, and Asia-scale fish port.
Geneva
Geneva (Genève), capital of the Swiss canton of Geneva, is Switzerland's second largest city and a global diplomacy hub hosting the UN Office at Geneva, CERN, and WIPO, with about 210,600 residents, half of them foreign, and the world's highest expat cost of living in 2025.
Genoa
Genoa (Genova, Zena) is the capital of Liguria, Italy, a Mediterranean port city and former capital of the Republic of Genoa; home of the Banco di San Giorgio (1407) and the UNESCO-listed Strade Nuove and Palazzi dei Rolli (2006).
Geoje
Geoje (거제; 巨濟) is a city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, on Geoje Island; a shipbuilding center hosting Hanwha Ocean and Samsung Heavy Industries yards, with 228,629 residents (September 2026) and a history from Byeonhan's Dokro-guk through the 1592 Battle of Okpo.
George Town, Cayman Islands
George Town, Cayman Islands: capital, seat of government, and main port on Grand Cayman's southwest coast. Largest district (43,220 residents, 48.7% in 2024), offshore finance hub, tender-only cruise port after the 2025 referendum rejecting piers.
George Town, Penang
George Town, Penang: Malaysian state capital founded 1786 by Francis Light as a British free port; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008 with Melaka, known for shophouse townscape and multicultural heritage.
George, Western Cape
George, Western Cape: Garden Route city founded 1811, named for King George III; seat of George Local Municipality (294,929 people, 2022), second largest Western Cape municipality after Cape Town; hub of N2, George Airport, tourism, and forestry.
Georgetown, Guyana
Georgetown, Guyana: capital and only city, on the Demerara River estuary, formerly Dutch Stabroek, city by Royal Warrant 1842. About 311,000 residents, largely below sea level, protected by seawalls, sluices, and pumps against recurrent flooding.
Georgetown, Texas
Georgetown, Texas: county seat of Williamson County on I-35 and the San Gabriel River, founded 1848 and named for George Washington Glasscock; home of Southwestern University (1873), a 100% renewable municipal utility, and one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities, reaching 106,907 in 2025.
Gera
Gera, kreisfreie city in eastern Thuringia, Germany, on the Weiße Elster; third largest Thuringian city, first documented 995, former Reuss residence city, Otto Dix's birthplace, about 95,000 residents.
Gerlachsheim
Gerlachsheim, a village in the Tauber valley, now a district of Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg; first recorded 1209 as Gerlagesheim, seat of an Alemannic noble family, and home of a Premonstratensian priory with a Baroque church of 1723-1730.
Germantown, Maryland
Germantown, Maryland: unincorporated Montgomery County CDP, third most populous place in Maryland (91,249 in 2020). Founded by German settlers in the 1830s; shifted to the B&O Metropolitan Branch in 1873; planned six-village corridor city on I-270.
Germiston
Germiston, Gauteng city in Ekurhuleni, South Africa; grew from the Simmer and Jack gold mine on farm Elandsfontein, named by John Jack after Glasgow; railway junction, Rand Refinery, Victoria Lake, about 356,806 residents (2022).
Gernsheim
Gernsheim (Schöfferstadt), town in Kreis Groß-Gerau, Hesse, Germany, on the Rhine; first recorded 852, town rights 1356, birthplace of Peter Schöffer, and site of a Roman cohort fort (70/80–110/120 AD) and vicus.
Getafe
Getafe, a city 12-14 km south of Madrid, Spain, founded in 1326 on the Madrid-Toledo royal road; cradle of Spanish aviation, industrial hub, seat of Universidad Carlos III and the Diocese of Getafe, about 190,000 inhabitants.
Ghaziabad (ग़ाज़ियाबाद)
Ghaziabad (ग़ाज़ियाबाद) is an industrial city in western Uttar Pradesh, India, about 19 km east of Delhi; founded in 1740 as Ghaziuddinnagar, it is known as the Gateway of U.P.
Ghazipur (ग़ाज़ीपुर)
Ghazipur (ग़ाज़ीपुर) is a city and district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, on the River Ganga in the Varanasi Division, known for its opium factory and the Tomb of Lord Cornwallis.
Ghazni (غزنی)
Ghazni, historically Ghazna, is a city in east-central Afghanistan. It was the Ghaznavid capital, launching invasions into India before being destroyed by the Mongols in 1221.
Ghetto
Ghetto: a city district where a group, originally Jews, is confined by law or force. Originated in Venice 1516; revived by Nazi Germany (1,300+ ghettos); later applied to segregated Black urban neighborhoods in the United States.
Ghooghulpur (Uttar Pradesh 15)
Ghooghulpur is a village in Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh, holding three ASI centrally protected mounds, Ora Jhar, Penahia Jhar, and Kharahua Jhar, near the ancient Sravasti remains of Saheth-Maheth.
Ghulja
Ghulja, also known as Kulja and officially Yining, is a city in the Ili River valley in far northwestern Xinjiang, China, and seat of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.
Gießen
Gießen, university city in central Hesse on the Lahn, about 92,000 residents, youngest city in Hesse (average age 38), Germany's top student city with roughly 37,000 students; university founded 1607, Justus Liebig professor there 1824–1852.
Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-Yvette is a commune in Essonne, 23 km southwest of Paris, on the RER B line. A ninth-century village renamed in 1930, it hosts CNRS laboratories and the growing Moulon quarter on the Saclay plateau.
Giffnock
Giffnock, East Renfrewshire: affluent Glasgow suburb of about 12,300 people, formerly a quarrying village; railway arrived 1864, 1930s housing boom, Rouken Glen Park.