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Greater Noida (ग्रेटर नोएडा)
Greater Noida (ग्रेटर नोएडा) is a planned industrial township in Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, developed by GNIDA since January 1991 under the UP Industrial Area Development Act 1976, distinct from Noida (1976) and Greater Noida West.
Greater Orlando
Greater Orlando, the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford MSA of Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties, Florida: a 2.94-million-resident, 75.3-million-visitor metro led by theme parks, rapid growth, and a large Puerto Rican community.
Greater St. Louis
St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan statistical area: OMB-defined bi-state region of 14 counties plus the independent city of St. Louis; about 2.81 million residents in 2025, peaking at 2.83 million in 2009.
Greater Sudbury
Greater Sudbury (Grand Sudbury) is a 3,186 km² single-tier city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada's second-largest municipality by area, formed by 2001 amalgamation, a world-class nickel-copper mining centre with 166,004 residents (2021) and a bilingual population.
Greater Tokyo Area (首都圏)
Greater Tokyo Area (首都圏, Shuto-ken): the metropolitan region of Tokyo plus Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba; 36.986 million people (2025 census, 30.1% of Japan), the world's largest metropolitan area and about one-third of national GDP.
Greater Toronto Area
Greater Toronto Area (GTA): Ontario planning region of Toronto plus Durham, York, Peel, and Halton regions; Canada's most populous metro area, distinct from the Toronto CMA and GTHA.
Greeley, Colorado
Greeley, Colorado: Weld County seat founded in 1870 as the Union Colony, a temperance utopian agricultural community by Nathan Meeker and named for Horace Greeley; population about 115,000, home to the University of Northern Colorado and JBS meatpacking.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay, Wisconsin: city at the mouth of the Fox River in Brown County; 2020 population 107,395. Fur-trade and lumber port, home of the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field, economic hub of northeastern Wisconsin.
Greenock
Greenock: town in Inverclyde, Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde. Known for the £24m UK Government-funded Central Greenock redevelopment (2026-2027) and for containing Scotland's most deprived SIMD data zone.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina: Guilford County seat founded 1808 in the central Piedmont; population about 308,700 (2025 estimate). Known for the February 1, 1960 NC A&T sit-in at Woolworth's that sparked the national sit-in movement, and for JetZero's planned $4.7 billion aircraft plant.
Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville, Mississippi: Delta river-port city in Washington County, population 29,670 (2020), 82.6% Black, median household income $40,083; rebuilt after the Civil War and the 1927 flood; home of the Port of Greenville.
Greenville, North Carolina
Greenville, North Carolina, is the county seat of Pitt County on the Tar River, a university and medical center for eastern North Carolina with about 96,000 residents in 2025.
Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina: Upstate city on the Reedy River, incorporated 1831, population 70,720 (2020). Former textile mill town, now known for Falls Park, Liberty Bridge, Swamp Rabbit Trail, and downtown dining.
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich, Connecticut: affluent Fairfield County town founded 1640, population 63,505, known for restrictive zoning, 5.93 percent affordable housing, and 2026 dispute over state zoning mandates.
Greifswald
Greifswald (Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald) is a Baltic Sea university and Hanseatic city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany: founded near Eldena Abbey in 1199, Hanseatic from 1278, university since 1456, Swedish 1648–1815, birthplace of Caspar David Friedrich.
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France and the prefecture of the Isère department, set in an Alpine valley and known as the "capital of the Alps." It hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Gresham
Gresham, Oregon: fourth-largest city in the state (114,247 in 2020), in Multnomah County east of Portland. Founded 1851 by the Powell brothers, incorporated 1905, named for Postmaster General Walter Quintin Gresham; former berry-farming town turned suburb.
Greymouth
Greymouth (Māwhera), largest town of New Zealand's West Coast, at the Grey River mouth 233 km from Christchurch; Māori pā, 1860s gold-rush port, coal and timber exporter, now fishing, services and TranzAlpine terminus.
Grid plan
Grid plan: an orthogonal street layout of right-angle intersections forming rectangular blocks. Also called gridiron or Hippodamian plan. Known for high connectivity, walkability, and ancient Greek, Roman, and Spanish colonial use.
Grimsby
Grimsby, England: Humber Estuary port town in North East Lincolnshire, founded as Viking settlement Grimesbi, once the world's largest fishing port, now a major seafood processing and regeneration centre.
Grindavík
Grindavík is an Icelandic fishing town of about 3,800 people on the Reykjanes peninsula, 50 km southwest of Reykjavík, near the Blue Lagoon and Svartsengi power plant; evacuated in November 2023 before the Sundhnúkur eruption series.
Griquatown
Griquatown, in Afrikaans Griekwastad, is a small sheep-farming town in the Northern Cape, South Africa, once the seat of the Griqua state known as Waterboer's Land.
Grodno (Гродна)
Grodno (Hrodna, Гродна) is a city in western Belarus, administrative center of Grodno Region on the Neman River. First mentioned 1128; former residence of Lithuanian grand dukes; third-largest Belarusian city with about 356,000 residents (2014).
Groningen
Groningen is the largest city of the Dutch north, first recorded in 1040 as villa Cruoninga, a former Hanseatic city-state and university city (founded 1614), with about 244,060 residents in 2026, known for gas-field earthquakes and the 2023 parliamentary inquiry.
Grootfontein
Grootfontein (Afrikaans, "big fountain") is a town in Otjozondjupa Region, north-central Namibia, on the B8 road in the maize triangle with Otavi and Tsumeb; founded 1885 by Dorslandtrekkers, fort built 1896, museum since 1983.
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Grosse Pointe, Michigan: a 1.06-square-mile Lake St. Clair city in Wayne County, one of five Pointes bordering Detroit; 5,678 residents (2020), median household income $158,853, incorporated as a village in 1879.
Groton, Connecticut
Groton, Connecticut: a New London County town between the Thames and Mystic Rivers, settled 1650, incorporated 1705. Home of Electric Boat, Naval Submarine Base New London, the USS Nautilus, and the 'Submarine Capital of the World.'
Grozny
Grozny (Грозный), capital of the Chechen Republic on the Sunzha River; founded 1818 as a Russian fortress, grew into a major oil city, was destroyed in the Chechen wars, and rebuilt with Moscow funds.
Gruyères
Gruyères (Greyerz), Fribourg canton, Switzerland: hilltop medieval town and 13th-century castle of the counts of Gruyère, home of Gruyère AOP cheese, HR Giger Museum, 2,353 residents (2025).
Guacara
Guacara is a city of about 199,000 people in Carabobo state, Venezuela, seat of Guacara Municipality on the Lake Valencia basin. Founded as San Agustín de Guacara in 1694, it is an industrial city known for petroglyphs and a tropical monsoon climate.