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Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands (云顶高原), a mountain resort city in Bentong District, Pahang, Malaysia, about 50 km from Kuala Lumpur at roughly 1,800 m elevation; home to Resorts World Genting, Malaysia's only land-based casino, Genting SkyWorlds and Skytropolis theme parks, founded by Lim Goh Tong in 1965.

Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park

Genting SkyWorlds Theme Park (云顶天城世界), formerly 20th Century Fox World, is an outdoor theme park at Resorts World Genting, Genting Highlands, Malaysia, soft-opened 8 February 2022 with nine themed worlds, 26 rides, and 20th Century Studios licenses.

Geochang Apple Theme Park

Geochang Apple Theme Park (거창사과테마파크), a free county-run apple exhibition and experience park in Geochang-eup, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, with a Future Laboratory, apple pizza making, and outdoor apple trees; distinct from the G-APPLE cafe complex.

Geoglyph

A geoglyph is a large-scale design made by removing stones, digging trenches, or piling earth, and the best-known examples are the Nasca Lines of Peru.

Geoje Sea World

Geoje Sea World (거제씨월드), opened April 2014 on Geoje Island, South Gyeongsang, is Korea's largest dolphin and beluga experience park, owned by Goldsea Korea Investment, marked by welfare controversies, 2024 dolphin deaths, and a 2025 suspension review.

Geology of the Grand Canyon area

The geology of the Grand Canyon area exposes nearly two billion years of Earth history in the walls of the canyon cut by the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona.

GeoMôn UNESCO Global Geopark

GeoMôn UNESCO Global Geopark covers all of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), Wales. Founded 2005, EGN 2009, UNESCO programme 2015; 1.8 billion years of geology, oldest fossils in England and Wales, Parys Mountain copper mine.

George Floyd Square

George Floyd Square (George Perry Floyd Square), intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered in 2020; community memorial, Rise and Remember preservation, and 2026 reconstruction.

George Gordon Meade Memorial

The George Gordon Meade Memorial, or Meade Memorial, is a marble and granite allegorical monument in Washington, D.C. honoring the Union commander at Gettysburg; designed by Charles Grafly, given by Pennsylvania, dedicated 1927, moved to Pennsylvania Avenue NW in 1983-1984.

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

George Washington Birthplace National Monument (Wakefield, Popes Creek) is an NPS park in Westmoreland County, Virginia, marking Washington's February 1732 birth site, with the 1896 War Department obelisk, 1930-31 Memorial House, and Building X archeology.

George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument is a 240-acre National Park Service unit in southwest Missouri, preserving the Moses Carver farm where the scientist was born.

George's Chapel

George's Chapel, or George's Meeting House, is a Grade I listed former Unitarian chapel built in 1760 on South Street, Exeter, Devon, now a JD Wetherspoon pub; NHLE entry 1267126, distinct from St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Georgia Aquarium

Georgia Aquarium is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, opened November 2005 as the world's largest after a $250 million Bernard Marcus gift; it holds over 11 million gallons of water and displays whale sharks.

Georgia Guidestones

The Georgia Guidestones, also called America's Stonehenge, were a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, erected in 1980 by the pseudonymous R.C. Christian with ten guides in eight languages, and destroyed by bombing in July 2022.

Gerace Roman Villa

Gerace Roman Villa: late Roman estate centre in contrada Gerace, 10 km south of Enna, Sicily; granary, unfinished villa of Philippianus, and bathhouse; destroyed by earthquakes and fire ca. 500 CE.

Germa Necropoleis

Germa Necropoleis: ancient cemeteries around Germa (Garama), Garamantian capital in Libya's Wadi al-Ajal. Includes Royal Cemetery GSC030-031 of stepped tombs (4th-6th c AD), Saniat ben Howedi, and Gasr Uatuat mausoleum.

German War Graves Commission

Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK), the German War Graves Commission: humanitarian nonprofit founded 16 December 1919 in Berlin; maintains ~840 war cemeteries in 45 countries with 2.8 million dead, runs Graves Search Online, and introduced Volkstrauertag.

Germanicum

Germanicum (Castra Germanicum), Roman ala fort at Kösching, Bavaria, on the Raetian Limes north of the Danube; founded spring AD 80, garrisoned by Ala I Flavia Gemelliana, abandoned around 242/243 after an Alemannic attack.

Germes

Germes (BAtlas 23 H1) is an ancient tumulus site recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places, cited to the Barrington Atlas map 23 square H1, with a place record created by David Braund in 2012.

Germisara

Germisara, under Roman rule Thermae Germisara, was a Dacian and Roman settlement with a major thermal spa in the Mureș valley of present-day Hunedoara County, Romania.

Geroland

Geroland (جيرولاند) is a family theme park in El Obour City, Cairo Governorate, Egypt, opened in the 1990s as a 42-hectare park; known for classic rides, a Boomerang coaster, and later decline.

Geronisos

Geronisos (Yeronisos, Γερόνησος), "Sacred Island," a small islet off western Cyprus near Agios Georgios Pegeias; a Ptolemaic garrison and Apollo sanctuary under Cleopatra VII, excavated by NYU since 1990.

Gerulata

Gerulata: Roman castellum at Rusovce, Bratislava, Slovakia, first fort on the Carnuntum–Ad Flexum Danube limes line; founded under Domitian, garrisoned by Ala I Cannanefatum, four building phases to a late-antique fort around 380 AD, now a UNESCO Danube Limes component; distinct from the Serbian Gerulata fort at Miroč.

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats

Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats is a natural UNESCO World Heritage site of six tidal flat areas on South Korea's Yellow Sea coast, inscribed in 2021 and extended in 2026.

Gethsemane (גת שמנים)

Gethsemane (גת שמנים, "oil press") is the garden at the foot of Jerusalem's Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed before his arrest; eight ancient olive trees, radiocarbon-dated to medieval centuries, mark the Franciscan site.

Geumo Land

Geumo Land (금오랜드) is a small family amusement park opened in 1993 at the base of 976-meter Geumosan in Gumi, South Korea, with free entry, paid rides, a 2023 Ferris wheel, ice rink, and TiniPing zone.

Gezer (גזר)

Gezer (גזר), ancient Canaanite and Israelite city at Tell Jezer in Israel's Shephelah, identified by boundary inscriptions; known from Egyptian, Assyrian, and biblical texts, with a Middle Bronze Age water system and major ongoing radiocarbon chronology research.

Geziret el Marakeb

Geziret el Marakeb (Jazīrat al 'Ulbah, Seal Island) is a small barren island in Libya's Gulf of Bomba, Cyrenaica, with over sixty debated stone enclosures, Late Roman remains, and a proposed identification with Herodotus' Platea.

Ġgantija

Ġgantija is a megalithic temple complex of two Neolithic structures on Gozo's Xagħra plateau, Malta, first excavated in the 1820s and inscribed by UNESCO in 1980 as part of the Megalithic Temples of Malta.

Ghalekuti

Ghalekuti (Qal'eh Kuti, قلعه کوتی), ancient cemetery site of four hills in Dailaman Province, northern Iran, about 5 km east of Dailaman; excavated 1960 and 1964 by Namio Egami's Tokyo University expeditions, with at least 270 Late Bronze Age to Parthian-period tombs.