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Goeblange
Goeblange (Luxembourgish: Goeblingen) is a village in the commune of Koerich in central-western Luxembourg, known for the Gallo-Roman villa of Goeblingen-Miecher and the Celtic necropolis of Goeblange-Nospelt.
Goiás Velho
Goiás Velho, officially the Cidade de Goiás, is a historic Brazilian municipality founded in the 1720s as the gold-mining settlement of Vila Boa, the first capital of Goiás.
Gojra
Gojra (گوجرہ) is a city and tehsil headquarters in Toba Tek Singh District, Punjab, Pakistan; founded 1896 as a canal-colony grain market, population 214,349 (2023), a cotton trading center and hockey stronghold on the M-4 motorway.
Golasecca
Golasecca, a commune in Varese province, Lombardy (7.4 km2, 2,530 inhabitants in 2008), gave its name to the Golasecca culture, an Iron Age cremation-burial civilization of Lombardy, Piedmont, and Canton Ticino with Lepontic inscriptions, ended by the Insubri Celtic invasion.
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast, Queensland: Australia's largest non-capital city, second largest in Queensland, about 80 km south of Brisbane. Beaches, theme parks, tourism ($3.2 billion, 2021-22), GRP $48.72 billion, 2018 Commonwealth Games host.
Golden, Colorado
Golden, Colorado: Jefferson County city founded 1859 as a gold-rush supply town, Colorado Territory capital 1862-1867, home of Colorado School of Mines and Coors Brewery, population about 20,467.
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Goldsboro, North Carolina: Wayne County seat on the Neuse River, chartered January 1, 1847 and named for railroad engineer Matthew T. Goldsborough; home to Seymour Johnson AFB (activated 1942), population about 35,000, prone to Neuse flooding.
Göllheim
Göllheim is a North Palatinate village in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, first recorded as Gylnheim in 819; site of the 1298 Battle of Hasenbühl where King Adolf of Nassau fell, marked by the Königskreuz.
Golubac (Голубац)
Golubac (Голубац), a small Danube town and municipality in eastern Serbia at the entrance to the Đerdap gorge, known for its medieval fortress first mentioned in 1335; 6,599 municipal residents in 2022.
Goma
Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, sits on Lake Kivu at the Rwanda border beneath the active Nyiragongo volcano.
Gomadingen
Gomadingen, also Gemeinde Gomadingen, is a municipality in the Reutlingen district, Baden-Württemberg, in the Große Lauter valley on the Swabian Alb, with seven Ortsteile including Grafeneck, site of the Aktion T4 memorial, and the Marbach state stud.
Gómez Palacio
Gómez Palacio, Durango: city and municipality in the Comarca Lagunera of northeastern Mexico, founded 1886, named for governor Francisco Gómez Palacio; 372,750 inhabitants (2020), industrial and dairy hub of the La Laguna metro area.
Gondar
Gondar (ጎንደር, Gonder), a city in North Gondar Zone, Amhara, Ethiopia, made permanent capital by Emperor Fasilides in 1636; home to Fasil Ghebbi, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
Gondomar, Portugal
Gondomar is a municipality in the Porto district, located east of Porto along the Douro river, and is Portugal's principal center for goldsmithing and intricate filigree work.
Gongzhuling
Gongzhuling (公主岭市), county-level city in Changchun, Jilin, China; formerly Huaide County, named for Princess Hejing's tomb. Major corn producer, "Hometown of Corn in China", transferred from Siping to Changchun in 2020.
Gonia (Libya)
Gonia, ancient coastal place in Cyrenaica, Libya, near Tobruk (Porto di Tobruk), on the Tabula Peutingeriana after Antipyrgos; Hellenistic/Roman; Pleiades 716566; variants Goma, Gonia, Ptolemy's Graias Gony harbor.
Gorakhpur (गोरखपुर)
Gorakhpur (गोरखपुर), eastern Uttar Pradesh city and district named after saint Gorakhnath of the Nath Sampradaya; on the Rapti river, flood-prone, home to Gorakhnath Temple, Gita Press, and GI-tagged terracotta.
Gorey
Gorey (Irish: Guaire) is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland, laid out by the Ram family and chartered as Newborough in 1619. Population 11,517 (2022); a fast-growing Key Town on the Dublin–Rosslare rail line and M11.
Gorgān (city)
Gorgān (گرگان), formerly Astarābād, is the capital of Golestan Province in northern Iran near the Caspian; renamed from Astarābād under Reza Shah, birthplace of Aqa Mohammad Khan, 350,676 inhabitants in 2016.
Gori, Georgia
Gori (გორი) is a city in eastern Georgia, regional capital of Shida Kartli at the Mtkvari–Liakhvi confluence, 76 km west of Tbilisi. Known as Stalin's birthplace (museum opened 1957), for Gori Fortress, nearby Uplistsikhe cave town, the 1920 earthquake, and nine-day 2008 Russian occupation.
Görlitz
Görlitz (Zhorjelc, Zgorzelec) is Germany's easternmost city, in Saxony on the Lusatian Neisse, with 55,065 residents, over 4,000 listed buildings, the twin city Zgorzelec, and the film nickname Görliwood.
Gosford
Gosford, New South Wales: Central Coast city on Brisbane Water, Darkinjung land, surveyed 1839; railway from 1887; 2021 Census SA3 population 178,427; civic heart of the Central Coast.
Goshen, Indiana
Goshen, Indiana, the Maple City, is the county seat of Elkhart County, platted in 1831, population about 34,500, with a large Hispanic/Latino community and an RV-manufacturing-centered economy.
Gospić
Gospić, town in Lika, Croatia, seat of Lika-Senj County; 6,362 inhabitants (2021), 562 m elevation on the Novčica river. First mentioned 1263 as Kaseg; Ottoman until 1689; Zagreb–Split railway junction.
Gotha
Gotha, Thuringian city in central Germany west of Erfurt, first mentioned 775 as villa gotaha; ducal capital of Saxe-Gotha 1640-1918; 45,832 residents (2022 census); Friedenstein Palace and Gotha Research Library.
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden's second city on the southwest coast at the mouth of the Göta River: 613,278 residents (2025), Scandinavia's largest port handling 20% of Swedish foreign trade, and home to Volvo, SKF, AstraZeneca, and the University of Gothenburg.
Göttingen
Göttingen, Lower Saxony university city on the Leine, home of Georg-August-Universität (founded 1737) with 45 Nobel laureates, five Max Planck Institutes, and the Gänseliesel landmark.
Gouts-Rossignols
Gouts-Rossignols (officially Gout-Rossignol, INSEE 24199) is a rural commune in Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, formed in 1827 from Gout and Rossignol; 360 inhabitants in 2023, canton of Ribérac, two monuments historiques.
Gqeberha
Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth, is a port city on Algoa Bay in South Africa's Eastern Cape, renamed in February 2021 after the isiXhosa name of the Baakens River; largest Eastern Cape city, part of Nelson Mandela Bay municipality.
Grafenworth
Grafenworth (Grafenwörth) is a market municipality in Lower Austria, postal code 3484, home of football club USC Grafenwörth, founded 1949, refounded 1966, playing in the 2. Klasse Wachau/Donau.