Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Ghelar

Ghelar (Ghelari, Gyalár) is an ancient Roman-period iron-mining site in the Poiana Ruscă Mountains, Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania; Pleiades place 207131, BAtlas 21 E4, with Devonian Teliuc-Ghelar type iron deposits.

Gheriat el-Garbia

Gheriat el-Garbia (ancient Myd(---)) is a Roman oasis fort on the limes Tripolitanus in Libya, c. 340 km from Tripoli. Built by Legio III Augusta 198-201 under Septimius Severus, largest fort of the limes (c. 183 x 132 m), occupied to AD 275/80, reoccupied by limitanei c. AD 360/80-430/55, possibly the castra Madensia.

Gheriat esh-Shergia

Gheriat esh-Shergia (قريات الشرقية), a Roman centenarium or fortified farm of the Limes Tripolitanus in Jabal al Gharbi, Libya, east of Gheriat el-Garbia fort; 25 x 40 m ashlar walls, later Ottoman and Italian Fort Bacone.

Ghibli Park

Ghibli Park (ジブリパーク) is a Studio Ghibli-themed park in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan, inside Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park. Opened November 2022, fully five areas by March 2024; ride-less, reservation-only, run by Ghibli Park Co.

Ghindăreşti

Ghindărești is a commune in northwestern Constanța County, Romania, on the right bank of the Danube, 12 km from Hârșova. Single village since 2000; 2,557 inhabitants (2021); Roman fort site La Cetate and Tumulul T-6.

Ghizil-Agaj

Ghizil-Agaj (Azerbaijani: Qızılağac) is a coastal wetland complex on the southwestern Caspian shore in Azerbaijan, designated a Ramsar site in 2001 and protected as a state reserve since 1929.

Ghorfa des Ouled Selama

Ghorfa des Ouled Selama is a late antique stone mausoleum in El Hakimia, Bouira province, Algeria, about 10 kilometers from ancient Auzia, built after 439 CE in the Vandal period.

Ghosi Mound

Ghosi Mound (Nand Baba's mound, Nahusa-ka-Tila), an ancient archaeological mound at Ghosi tehsil, Mau district, Uttar Pradesh; centrally protected since 1939, state-protected in 2025, mud-wall fortified, reported fully encroached in 2025.

Ghost Train (Thorpe Park)

Ghost Train at Thorpe Park, Surrey, is a 15-20 minute indoor horror dark ride with live actors and special effects. Opened 2016 as Derren Brown's VR Ghost Train, reimagined without VR in 2023; minimum height 1.3 m.

Ghrishneshwar Temple, Chatries and Other Ancient Sites

Ghrishneshwar Temple, Chatries and other ancient sites (Ghushmeshwar, Kusumeshwar): an ASI centrally protected monument group at Verul (Ellora), Maharashtra, centered on the 12th and last Jyotirlinga temple rebuilt by Ahilyabai Holkar in the 18th century, with three 17th-century Bhosale chhatries, about 1 km from the Ellora Caves.

Ghulbiyan

Ghulbiyan (Ghulbyân) is an archaeological site in Faryab province, northwestern Afghanistan, with a rock-cut sanctuary whose Sasanian paintings date to the 4th–5th centuries CE, published by Grenet, Lee, and Pinder-Wilson.

Ghuzza

Ghuzza (Ghozza, ancient Berkou) is a multi-period fort, settlement, and Ptolemaic gold-mining village in Egypt's Eastern Desert, where 2020 excavations revealed a planned village and 2023 finds of iron shackles.

Giam Siak Kecil - Bukit Batu Biosphere Reserve

Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu (GSK-BB), Cagar Biosfer, is a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve designated 26 May 2009 in Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia. About 705,000 ha of peat swamp forest, Indonesia's seventh biosphere reserve and the first nominated and co-managed by a private company.

Gianola

Gianola, Formia (Latina), Italy: coastal promontory in the Riviera di Ulisse park with the mid-1st-century-BC maritime villa attributed to Lucius Mamurra, Caesar's engineer, plus cisterns, Grotta della Janara, and a Roman porticciolo.

Giants' grave of Sa Dom'è s'Orcu (Quartucciu)

Giants' grave of Sa Dom'è s'Orcu (Quartucciu), also called Is Concias, a Middle-to-Recent Bronze Age Nuragic giants' tomb in Sette Fratelli park near Cagliari, excavated by Enrico Atzeni in 1962.

Gibbon (site)

A gibbon site is a purpose-built zoo or sanctuary enclosure for gibbons, small arboreal apes of Southeast Asian rainforests that need tall, connected climbing structures for arm-swinging movement.

Gibraltar Range National Park

Gibraltar Range National Park is a national park in northern New South Wales, Australia, between Glen Innes and Grafton, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area.

Giebułtów

Giebułtów, village in gmina Wielka Wieś, Kraków County, Lesser Poland, ~15 km north of Kraków. Multi-period cemetery site: Roman-period princely cremation grave, 11th-12th century graveyard, St. Giles church of 1601-1604.

Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Gifford Pinchot National Forest, formerly Columbia National Forest, is a 1.3-million-acre U.S. national forest in southern Washington, established 1908, renamed 1949 for the first Forest Service chief, and home to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.

Gila (protected area)

Gila (protected area): the Gila Wilderness, first federally designated wilderness (1924, Aldo Leopold), within New Mexico's 3.3-million-acre Gila National Forest; also the Gila freshwater ecoregion and Gila Box and Great Bend of the Gila conservation areas.

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico, preserves Mogollon cliff dwellings built in the late 1270s, occupied about 30 years, plus the TJ Ruin; established 1907, 533 acres, fee-free.

Gilan Gharbi

Gilan Gharbi (Gilan-e Gharb) is an ancient temple, sanctuary, and shrine site near Sarpol-e Zahab in western Iran, Barrington Atlas 92 A2, Pleiades 903034, dated AD 300-640, tied to Sasanian chahar-taq fire-temple studies.

Gilău

Gilău, a Roman auxiliary fort in Cluj County, Romania, 16 km from Napoca; earth-and-timber under Trajan, expanded for ala I Siliana torquata under Hadrian, rebuilt in stone, occupied to the later 3rd century AD.

Gilbert Stanley Underwood

Gilbert Stanley Underwood (1890-1960/61), American architect of National Park Service rustic lodges: Ahwahnee Hotel, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Timberline, Sun Valley, and Jackson Lake lodges, plus federal buildings.

Gillette Castle State Park

Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam, Connecticut, preserves the 24-room fieldstone home (1914–1919) of actor William Gillette, famous as Sherlock Holmes, with trails on his narrow-gauge railroad bed, river camping, and seasonal castle tours.

Gimdoryeong Folk Village

Gimdoryeong Folk Village (김도령민속촌) is a theme park in Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, at 35.23813°N, 128.58519°E, near Masan station, 790 m west.

Ginini Flats Subalpine Bog Complex

Ginini Flats Subalpine Bog Complex (Ginini Flats Wetland Complex), Ramsar Site 793: a 350 ha subalpine sphagnum bog wetland in Namadgi National Park, ACT, Australia, listed 1 March 1996, the ACT's only Ramsar site and key northern corroboree frog habitat.

Giordani

Catacomba dei Giordani, early Christian catacomb under Villa Ada on Rome's Via Salaria Nova, in use 3rd-5th centuries, with tomb of martyr Alexander and the frescoed Cubicle of the Exodus; closed to the public.

Gir National Park

Gir National Park in Gujarat, India, core of the Gir sanctuary complex (about 1,883 sq km), protects the world's only wild Asiatic lions, which numbered 891 in the 2025 census, up from 674 in 2020.