Cities and towns

Guadalajara

Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco, Mexico, and the country's second largest city, known for its UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts status and cultural history.

Guadalupe, Nuevo León

Guadalupe, Nuevo León, a municipality in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Mexico; founded 1716 as a Tlaxcaltec mission, a city since 1971, home of the Estadio BBVA and a 2026 FIFA World Cup venue.

Oct 22, 2026

Guaduas

Guaduas is a colonial town in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the old Camino Real northwest of Bogotá, best known as the birthplace of heroine Policarpa Salavarrieta.

Guangzhou (广州)

Guangzhou, historically known in English as Canton, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China, a trading port for over 2,000 years.

Guarapuava

Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil: mid-sized municipality in Center-South Paraná, 182,093 residents (2022 census), 3,163.893 km², founded as Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Belém in 1819, city status 1871.

Guarenas, Venezuela: city in Miranda state, seat of Plaza Municipality, founded 1621 as Nuestra Señora de la Copacabana y de los Guarenas; dormitory city of Caracas forming the Guarenas-Guatire axis with Guatire.

Guarulhos

Guarulhos is a city in São Paulo state, Brazil, home to São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, Latin America's largest, and the state's second most populous municipality with 1.3 million residents.

Oct 22, 2026

Guatavita

Guatavita is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, about 45 km north of Bogotá, and the name of the sacred Muisca lake whose investiture ceremony inspired the legend of El Dorado.

Guatemala City

Guatemala City (Ciudad de Guatemala, Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción), Central America's largest metropolis and Guatemala's capital, founded 1524 at Iximché, relocated to the Valle de la Ermita in 1776 after the Santa Marta earthquakes; 22 zones, Kilómetro Cero grid.

Guatire

Guatire: city in Miranda state, Venezuela, seat of Zamora Municipality, about 26 km northeast of Caracas; colonial parish founded 1680, listed as founded 1701; 187,262 residents (2011 census), 328 m elevation, twin city of Guarenas.

Guayaquil

Guayaquil (Santiago de Guayaquil), Ecuador's largest city and main port, capital of Guayas province on the Guayas River; founded 1535/1547, independent 1820, economic hub with about 24% of national GDP and severe flood and security challenges.

Guben

Guben is a town in Brandenburg's Spree-Neiße district on the Lusatian Neisse, twin town of Polish Gubin. Chartered 1235, famed for Wilke's weatherproof felt hats and GDR chemical fibres; about 16,000 residents.

Guédiawaye

Guédiawaye, Senegal: city and department in the Dakar region, a dense satellite of Dakar (28,670 inhabitants/km² in 2023) known for recurrent flooding, dune-coast urbanization, and the BRT terminus.

Guelph

Guelph, Ontario, 'The Royal City': planned town founded April 23, 1827 by John Galt of the Canada Company, named for the royal Guelph lineage; 2021 population 143,740, projected 208,000 by 2051.

Guernica

Guernica (Basque Gernika; official name Gernika-Lumo) is a Bizkaia town of about 17,000, seat of the Basque assemblies under the Tree of Gernika, bombed in 1937 and namesake of Picasso's painting.

Guidonia Montecelio

Guidonia Montecelio, comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio; 89,011 residents (2025), third most populous in Lazio. Formed 1937 by joining hilltop Montecelio with planned Guidonia, built around the Barbieri airfield and named for General Alessandro Guidoni.

Guigang

Guigang (贵港) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangxi, China, on the middle Xijiang River. Known as the Lotus City, it was the birthplace of the 1851 Taiping uprising.

Guildford

Guildford: county town of Surrey, England, on the River Wey where it cuts the North Downs; borough population 143,649 (2021 Census), home to Guildford Castle, Guildford Cathedral, and the University of Surrey.

Guilin (桂林)

Guilin (桂林), a prefecture-level city in northeast Guangxi, China, famed for its fenglin tower karst along the Li River; its karst joined UNESCO's South China Karst World Heritage list in 2014, and it was founded as a Qin prefecture in 214 BC.

Guimarães

Guimarães, a city in Portugal's Braga district, is known as the birthplace of Portugal and its first 12th-century capital. Its UNESCO-listed Historic Centre and Couros Zone, 241 km² municipality of about 160,000 people, and European Green Capital 2026 title distinguish it.

Guixi

Guixi (贵溪市) is a county-level city under Yingtan, Jiangxi, China, founded as a county in 765 AD and made a city in 1996. Known as China's Copper Capital, it hosts Jiangxi Copper's Guixi Smelter, the world's largest, producing about 10 percent of China's electrolytic copper.