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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado: protects North America's tallest dunes (Star Dune, 750 ft), a 30-square-mile dunefield, Medano Creek surge flow, and a closed aquifer system; monument 1932, park 2004.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 772-square-mile Appalachian park in Tennessee and North Carolina, authorized 1926, dedicated 1940; most biodiverse and most visited US national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.
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.
Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park, a 180,500-hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site on Newfoundland's west coast, exposes the Earth's mantle at the Tablelands, features Gros Morne Mountain (806 m) and Western Brook Pond fjord, and hosts seven enclave communities.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a national park in west Texas, established in 1972, preserving an exposed Permian fossil reef and Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas.
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.
Guiana Amazonian Park
Guiana Amazonian Park (Parc amazonien de Guyane), created 27 February 2007, is France's and the EU's largest national park: 34,000 km² of rainforest in southern French Guiana, linked with Brazil's Tumucumaque park.
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.
Gwangmyeong Florist
Gwangmyeong Florist (광명식물원) is a garden in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Jeolla, at 35.1564° N, 126.81694° E; a namesake flower shop operates in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi.
Gwigeraehyang
귀거래향 식물원 (歸去來鄕, Gwigeraehyang), also called 귀거래향 수생식물원, is a private aquatic plant garden in Seongyeon-myeon, Seosan, South Chungcheong, South Korea, growing about 280 rare water lily varieties and lotuses on roughly 3,000-4,000 pyeong, run by grower Jang In-jae.
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.
Gymnosperms area
Gymnosperms area (裸子植物区): a botanical garden section growing naked-seed plants such as conifers, cycads, ginkgo and Ephedra for display, education and ex situ conservation; examples range from Beijing's 2.3 ha, 60-species area to Kunming's 200-species collection.
Ha Ha Tonka State Park
Ha Ha Tonka State Park is a roughly 3,700-acre Missouri state park near Camdenton on the Lake of the Ozarks, featuring ruins of Robert Snyder's 1905 stone castle, Missouri's 12th-largest spring, karst gorges, and over 15 miles of trails.
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.
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden (海南热带野生动植物园) is an AAAA-rated zoo and botanical garden in Dongshan town, Haikou, Hainan, holding over 2,000 animals of 130+ species, with a driving safari section, pandas, and 158 yuan tickets.
Half Dome
Half Dome is a granodiorite dome at the head of Yosemite Valley, about 8,800 ft above sea level, formed by exfoliation of a pluton, joint-controlled rockfalls, and glacial plucking of its sheer northwest face.
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.
Hanoi Botanical Gardens
Hanoi Botanical Gardens, or Bach Thao Park (Vườn Bách Thảo), a French-created 1890 botanical garden behind the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi; now about 10 hectares with rare and red-listed tree species.
Harbin Zoo
Harbin Zoo was the city zoo of Harbin, China, founded in 1954, renamed in 1964, and closed in 2003 when its animals moved to a new forest site.
Harding Icefield
Harding Icefield, Alaska icefield in the Kenai Mountains, heart of Kenai Fjords National Park; ~700 sq mi with 38 outflowing glaciers including Exit and Aialik, thinning since the 1950s.
Hatley Park National Historic Site
Hatley Park National Historic Site, Colwood, British Columbia: 228.84-hectare Edwardian estate with Hatley Castle (1908-09, Samuel Maclure), built for James Dunsmuir, later Royal Roads Military College and Royal Roads University.