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Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is a 1,017-acre urban park in western San Francisco, built from 1870 on sand dunes by William Hammond Hall and John McLaren, with gardens, museums, and 25 million annual visits.
Good Maharaja Square
Good Maharaja Square (Skwer Dobrego Maharadży, Opacz Park) is a garden square in Ochota, Warsaw, named after Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji of Nawanagar, who sheltered Polish refugee children at Balachadi, 1942–1946.
Gorky Park (Moscow)
Gorky Park (Центральный парк культуры и отдыха имени Горького) is Moscow's central park, opened 12 August 1928 on the 1923 agricultural exhibition site, named for Maxim Gorky in 1932, and reconstructed from 2011.
Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation
Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation (Парк культури та відпочинку ім. Горького): name shared by several Soviet-era municipal parks, chiefly Kharkiv's Central Park (founded 1893–95, renamed 2023) and Moscow's Gorky Park (opened 1928, 212 ha).
Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park is a two-acre private park in Manhattan, founded by Samuel B. Ruggles and conveyed to trustees on December 17, 1831, accessible by key to residents of surrounding buildings and governed by the Trustees of Gramercy Park.
Greater London Plan
The Greater London Plan 1944 is a strategic plan by Patrick Abercrombie that proposed moving over a million Londoners into new towns beyond a green belt.
Green belt
Green belt: designated open land around towns and cities protected by planning policy to prevent urban sprawl, most developed in England (1,633,220 hectares, 12.5% of land). Covers NPPF purposes, 1938 Act and 1955 Circular history, grey belt and Golden Rules reforms, and effects on sprawl and housing prices.
Green belt (United Kingdom)
Green belt (UK): designated open land around English cities protected by NPPF chapter 13 to prevent urban sprawl; about 1,633,220 hectares, 12.5% of England, with five purposes, grey belt classification, and Golden Rules for released land.
Green corridor
Green corridor: a vegetated linear strip connecting fragmented natural or urban green areas, also called ecological corridor or greenway; defined by IUCN/UNEP-WCMC, modeled with least-cost and MSPA/MCR methods, providing conduit, habitat, and urban heat and biodiversity benefits.
Green space
Green space: vegetated urban land such as parks, urban forests, gardens, and street trees, linked to mental, physical, and social health benefits, climate cooling, and biodiversity, with unequal global access.
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park, London's oldest and smallest Royal Park (183 acres), enclosed 1433 by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, laid out in the 1660s with André Le Nôtre, home of the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian.
Griffith Park
Griffith Park, Los Angeles: roughly 4,200-4,500-acre urban wilderness park in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains, donated by Griffith J. Griffith in 1896; home to Griffith Observatory, LA Zoo, Greek Theatre; about 10 million visitors yearly.
Guangzhou Children's Park
Guangzhou Children's Park (广州市儿童公园) is a free city-run children's park in Baiyun New Town, Guangzhou, China, founded in 1958 and reopened on former Baiyun Airport land in 2014.
Gunma Flower Park
Gunma Flower Park (ぐんまフラワーパーク), now Gunma Flower Park+, is a flower park in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan; opened 1992, closed 2023 for renovation, reopened October 10, 2025 as an experiential 'Enjoy! Play with flowers' park with five areas and signature roses, hydrangeas, and clematis.
Gyeongju EXPO Grand Park
Gyeongju EXPO Grand Park (경주엑스포대공원), a 559,426 m² cultural park in Gyeongju's Bomun Tourist Complex, site of the 1998 Gyeongju World Expo, the world's first culture-and-arts-themed exposition, and ten later expos; year-round park since 2020 with the 82 m Gyeongju Tower.
Haboro Rose Park
Haboro Rose Park (はぼろバラ園, Haboro Rose Garden), Japan's northernmost rose garden in Haboro, Hokkaido; opened 1998 beside Michi-no-Eki Hotto Haboro; about 300 varieties and 2,000 northern-type roses, free admission, open May to October.
Hadiqat ath Thawrah
Hadiqat ath Thawrah (حديقة الثورة, Thirteen June Park) is a major public park in Sana'a, Yemen, in the Amanat Alasimah region, with an amusement area, a 165 m irrigation basin, and a Syrian namesake park in Al-Hasakah.
Haesindang Park
Haesindang Park (해신당공원), or Penis Park, in Sinnam village, Samcheok, South Korea: a seaside park of phallic sculptures built around a shrine where juniper phalluses are offered to a drowned maiden's spirit for good catches.
Hampstead Heath
Hampstead Heath is a historic north London open space of heathland, woodland and 26 ponds, managed by the City of London Corporation as a charity, saved for the public by the 1871 Hampstead Heath Act, with Kenwood House and three bathing ponds.
Haneul Park
하늘공원 (Haneul Park, Sky Park), an ecological park in Mapo-gu, Seoul, and one of five themed parks of World Cup Park, restored from the Nanjido landfill; known for silver grass and the October Seoul Eulalia Festival.
Hibiya Park
Hibiya Park (日比谷公園) is a 16-hectare metropolitan park in Chiyoda, Tokyo, opened in 1903 as Japan's first Western-style modern park, built on the model of German parks.
High Line
The High Line is a 2.3 km elevated public park in Manhattan, built on a 1934 freight railway abandoned in 1980, converted starting 2009 after a Friends of the High Line campaign.
Hong Kong Country Parks system
Hong Kong Country Parks system: 25 country parks and 22 special areas under the 1976 Country Parks Ordinance, covering about 40% of Hong Kong's land (44,842 ha), managed by AFCD, with 11 million visitors in 2025 and ongoing housing-land debates.
Hong Kong Zoological & Botanical Garden
Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens (香港動植物公園), also called Bing Tau Fa Yuen, is Hong Kong's oldest park, opened 1871 in Central; a free 5.6-hectare zoo and botanical garden with about 236 animals and over 1,000 plant species.
Horkaha Park
Horkaha Park (Maksim Gorky Central Children's Park, Парк Горкага) is Minsk's oldest park, founded 1805 as the Governor's Garden, 28 ha on the Svislach River, with a 54 m Ferris wheel and planetarium.
Hsinchu Zoo
Hsinchu Zoo (新竹市立動物園) is a 2.7-hectare public zoo in Hsinchu Park, Taiwan, founded 1936 and the oldest zoo at its original site; rebuilt cage-free, reopened 2019.
Hyde Park, London
Hyde Park, London: a 350-acre Royal Park in Westminster, acquired by Henry VIII in 1536, opened to the public in 1637, home to the Serpentine, Speaker's Corner, the 1851 Great Exhibition site and major events like Winter Wonderland.
Hyde Park, Sydney
Hyde Park, Sydney: Australia's oldest public parkland, named by Governor Macquarie on 6 October 1810 on land reserved as a common in 1792. A 16-hectare CBD park divided by Park Street, home to the Anzac Memorial, Archibald Fountain, and Emden Gun, reshaped after City Circle railway excavation and Norman Weekes's 1926 design.
Ice Age Park
Ice Age Park, also called Eiszeitpark Petersfels, is an archaeobotanical park east of Engen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, built in 2003 around the Paleolithic Petersfels cave.
Jallo Park
Jallo Park (جلو پارک), also Jallo Wildlife Park, is a 461-acre public recreation and wildlife breeding park east of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, established 1978 on a 1922 reserve forest, with free entry, a botanical garden, and a bird hatchery.