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Granada
Granada, Andalusian city in southeastern Spain, capital of its province; last Nasrid Muslim kingdom, fell 2 January 1492. Known for the Alhambra, Albaicín, tourism, and overtourism disputes.
Grand Bend
Grand Bend, Ontario: Lake Huron beach resort in Lambton Shores, Lambton County, named for a 180-degree bend of the Ausable River; Blue Flag beach, 1892 river Cut harbour, summer population 30,000-40,000.
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota: third-largest ND city (59,166 in 2020) on the Red River, home of the University of North Dakota, founded 1872 by Alexander Griggs, devastated by the 54.35-foot 1997 flood and rebuilt with major flood protection.
Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island, Nebraska: county seat of Hall County, fourth-largest Nebraska city (2020 pop. 53,131), founded 1857 by settlers from Davenport, Iowa, named for a Platte River island, platted 1866 by the Union Pacific, home of the Nebraska State Fair and JBS meatpacking.
Grand Junction, Colorado
Grand Junction is the largest city on Colorado's Western Slope, sitting where the Colorado and Gunnison rivers meet. Founded in 1881, it had 65,560 residents in 2020.
Grand Prairie, Texas
Grand Prairie, Texas, a city of about 196,100 (2020 census) in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties between Dallas and Fort Worth; founded as Dechman in 1863, renamed 1877, transformed by World War II aviation plants.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan: second-largest Michigan city and Kent County seat on the Grand River, known as Furniture City; about 201,000 residents in 2025, commission-manager government since 1916.
Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie, Alberta, is a city about 460 km northwest of Edmonton and the largest commercial center in the Peace Country, serving a trade area of nearly 300,000 people.
Grantham
Grantham is a market town in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, on the River Witham near the Nottinghamshire border. Known for St Wulfram's 282.5 ft spire, Newton's schooling, Thatcher's birthplace, and its engineering and coaching heritage.
Grants Pass, Oregon
Grants Pass, Oregon: county seat of Josephine County on the Rogue River, incorporated 1887, population about 39,000; named for Grant's Vicksburg victory; home of Dutch Bros and the 2024 Johnson v. Grants Pass Supreme Court ruling.
Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas: Tarrant County city of about 50,700 on the Grapevine Prairie, named for wild mustang grapes, incorporated 1907; home of Grapevine Lake, DFW Airport adjacency, TEXRail, and the Christmas Capital of Texas trademark.
Grass Valley, California
Grass Valley is a city in western Nevada County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, incorporated in 1860 and known for its Gold Rush heritage and the Empire Mine.
Grasse
Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes commune and chef-lieu in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; population 50,970 (2023). Known as the world perfume capital, with UNESCO-listed perfumery know-how since 2018.
Grassington
Grassington is a market town in Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England, about 8 miles north of Skipton. Known for its cobbled square, Grassington Moor lead mining remains, scheduled monument 1018333, and as TV's Darrowby in All Creatures Great and Small.
Grassmarket
Grassmarket is a historic market square in Edinburgh's Old Town below the Castle, a market since 1477 and the city's place of execution from 1660 to 1784, including over 100 Covenanters in the Killing Time.
Gravesend
Gravesend is a historic riverside town in Gravesham, Kent, on the south bank of the Thames opposite Tilbury. Recorded as Gravesham in Domesday Book, a ferry port with royal ferry rights, New Tavern Fort, Fastrack transit and major town centre regeneration.
Grays
Grays, historically Grays Thurrock, is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England, on the northern bank of the River Thames about 21 miles from London, and the largest town in the borough.
Graz
Graz: capital of Styria and Austria's second-largest city on the river Mur; UNESCO World Heritage historic centre and Schloss Eggenberg (1999, 2010), first chartered 1128, about 55,000 students, soft-mobility transport policy.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Great Barrington is a Berkshires town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, incorporated 1761 as Berkshire's shire town; population about 7,200, birthplace of W.E.B. Du Bois, first town lit by alternating current.
Great Falls, Montana
Great Falls, Montana: third-largest Montana city and Cascade County seat on the Missouri River, founded 1884 by Paris Gibson, nicknamed the Electric City for its five hydroelectric dams, home to Malmstrom AFB.
Great Falls, MT Metro Area
Great Falls, MT Metro Area (CBSA 24500) is a Montana metropolitan statistical area covering Cascade County, anchored by Great Falls (60,329) and Malmstrom AFB, with about 85,000 residents, $67,690 median household income, and roughly 36,000 nonfarm jobs.
Great Malvern
Great Malvern is a Worcestershire spa town that grew around a Benedictine priory founded in 1085, dissolved under Henry VIII, and revived by the 19th-century water cure, railway, and Grade I priory church.
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk coastal town and port on a Yare-North Sea peninsula; medieval Europe's largest herring port, walled by 1396, seaside resort since the 1700s, now offshore wind and £150m Quayside regeneration.
Greater Austin
Greater Austin is the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area in Central Texas, covering Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell counties. It had 2,620,945 residents in 2025 and is one of the fastest-growing large U.S. metros.
Greater Cleveland
Greater Cleveland is the metropolitan region around Cleveland, Ohio, anchored on Cuyahoga County; officially the six-county Cleveland-Elyria MSA, population about 2.17 million in 2025.
Greater Houston
Greater Houston, also called the Houston metropolitan area, is the ten-county region around Houston, Texas, home to about 7.8 million people and a leading oil and gas center.
Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles: Southern California urban region centered on Los Angeles, also called the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Spans Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties; about 19 million people; defined by OMB statistical areas and shaped by aqueduct water and freeway growth.
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester: metropolitan county in North West England of ten boroughs (Bolton to Wigan), created 1974, county council abolished 1986; home of the first English combined authority (2011) and directly elected mayor (2017), the UK's flagship devolution case.
Greater Mexico City
Greater Mexico City (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México) is Mexico City's official metropolitan area across Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Hidalgo, and Morelos; 84 municipalities, about 20 million people, roughly 25% of national GDP.
Greater Montreal
Greater Montreal (Grand Montréal) is Canada's second-largest metropolitan area, the Montréal census metropolitan area in Quebec: 4,291,732 residents in 2021, 4,615,154 by July 2024, about half of Quebec's population, governed across 82 municipalities.