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Gird-i Bazar
Gird-i Bazar, an Iron Age settlement mound in the Peshdar Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, part of the Dinka Settlement Complex with Qalat-i Dinka; Neo-Assyrian frontier site with pottery workshops, excavated 2015–2017.
Gird-i Rostam
Gird-i Rostam is a 15 m high, 1.5-2 ha multi-period settlement mound near Penjween, eastern Iraqi Kurdistan, excavated since 2018 by an LMU-NYU team; occupation spans Late Chalcolithic to Sasanian, with a Neo-Assyrian inscribed wine-bowl sherd.
Girraween National Park
Girraween National Park: 11,800 ha granite park on the QLD–NSW border, 260 km southwest of Brisbane; 'place of flowers'; Mount Norman 1,267 m; formed from 1930–32 parks amalgamated 1966.
Girvan Mains
Girvan Mains, Ayrshire: farm and scheduled archaeological site north of Girvan with two overlapping late first-century AD Roman temporary camps (about 22 ha and 6 ha) and a prehistoric enclosure; Kennedy landholding from 1481.
Gishwati Mukura Landscape Biosphere Reserve
Gishwati Mukura Landscape Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO biosphere reserve in western Rwanda, designated October 2020, around Gishwati-Mukura National Park (gazetted 2016) in the Albertine Rift; a restored chimpanzee and golden monkey forest landscape.
Giubiasco
Giubiasco necropolis: large prehistoric burial ground near Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland, with 565 graves from the late Bronze Age (11th century BC) to the Roman Imperial period, excavated from 1900, held at the Swiss National Museum, republished 2004-2010.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska: 3.28-million-acre NPS unit, monument 1925, park and preserve 1980, famed for the world's most dramatic documented glacial retreat, 1,059 glaciers, and UNESCO World Heritage status.
Glacier Bay-Admiralty Island Biosphere Reserve
Glacier Bay-Admiralty Island Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site in southeastern Alaska, designated 1986, two units (Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Admiralty Island National Monument), 3,455,290 ha, accepted 2019 periodic review.
Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glacier National Park, established May 11, 1910 in northwestern Montana, is a 1,583-square-mile U.S. national park of glaciers, lakes, and Going-to-the-Sun Road, joined with Canada's Waterton Lakes as the first international peace park.
Glaciers of Mount Rainier
The glaciers of Mount Rainier are 28 named glaciers covering the volcano in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, including the Emmons Glacier, the largest in the contiguous United States.
Gladiators' barracks
Gladiators' barracks, Pompeii: two buildings, the Quadriporticus VIII.7.16 (74 Doric columns, converted to gladiatorial use after AD 62) and the earlier V.5.3 barracks with 120 gladiatorial inscriptions, housing and training gladiators for the Amphitheatre.
Glasgow Bridge
Glasgow Bridge Roman Fortlet, an Antonine Wall fortlet in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on a promontory over the River Kelvin; c. 30 x 30 m, one of the four earliest known Wall fortlets, between Cadder and Kirkintilloch forts.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral (High Kirk of St Mungo) is Glasgow's medieval Gothic cathedral, the only one on the Scottish mainland to survive the 1560 Reformation virtually intact; built 12th–13th centuries over St Kentigern's tomb, now a Church of Scotland parish church in HES care.
Glaukos
Glaukos (γλαυκός) is an ancient Greek color term for light blue, gray, or green hues, mostly eye color; root of glaucoma, name of Herodotus's oracle consultant, the Knossos shrine, Glaukos Linea, and Glaukos Corporation (GKOS).
Glava Panega
Glava Panega (Глава Панега) is one of Bulgaria's largest karst springs, source of the Zlatna Panega river near Lukovit, and the site of a 2nd-4th century Roman sanctuary of Asclepius syncretized with the Thracian Horseman.
Glen Affric
Glen Affric (Gleann Afraig), a Highland glen in Scotland with a 17,604-hectare Caledonian pinewood National Nature Reserve managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, known for 75 years of native forest restoration and its 2025 beaver reintroduction.
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 1.25-million-acre NPS unit in Utah and Arizona established 1972, centers on Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam; reservoir storage has fallen to 22% of capacity amid Colorado River drought.
Glenbank
Glenbank is a Roman fortlet at NN 812 057, Perthshire, discovered from the air in 1983; the southernmost known installation of the Flavian Gask line, double-ditched, about 33 by 29 meters over ramparts, deliberately demolished at abandonment.
Glenelg Estuary and Discovery Bay Ramsar Site
Glenelg Estuary and Discovery Bay Ramsar Site (Ramsar Site no. 2344), Australia's 66th Ramsar wetland, listed 2018 in south-western Victoria; 22,289 ha of estuary, fen peatlands, dune slacks, waterbirds, and ancient greenling habitat.
Glenlochar Roman Fort
Glenlochar Roman Fort, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland: cropmark remains of a Flavian fort rebuilt in the AD 140s, with annexe, Roman road, camps, and Bronze Age barrows by the River Dee crossing.
Gleyzia d'Augreilh
Gleyzia d'Augreilh (villa du Gleyzia) is a late Roman villa in Saint-Sever, Landes, France, built in the 4th century, with two peristyles, a bath complex, and 800 m2 of polychrome mosaics, later a Christian necropolis.
Glims 4-H Farm Animal Yard
Glims 4-H Farm Animal Yard (Glimsin 4H-kotieläinpiha), a summer petting farm at Glims Farmstead Museum, Bemböle, Espoo, Finland, run by the Helsinki Region 4H Association with sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, free pasture visits, camps, and Animal Days.
Global City Dammam
Global City Dammam (المدينة العالمية بالدمام) is a seasonal multicultural entertainment park on Dammam Island, Saudi Arabia, opened December 29, 2025; a $2 billion three-phase Vision 2030 project with country pavilions, markets, rides, and over 3 million first-season visits.
Glorious Orient
Glorious Orient (东方欲晓, Oriental Dawn) is Fantawild's theme park brand on modern Chinese history, with four parks in Jining, Ningbo, Ganzhou, and Huai'an; Jining opened July 2024 with 42 attractions and the 92 km/h Fighter Jet coaster.
Go-Kart Hall
Go-kart hall (gokarthall): an indoor go-karting venue with a purpose-built circuit for rental karting, typically in converted warehouses; karts of 5-13 hp or electric, governed by EN 16230 safety standards.
Goat Island (New York)
Goat Island, New York: island in the Niagara River between the American and Horseshoe Falls, part of Niagara Falls State Park, the first US state park, designed by Olmsted and Vaux.
Goat Pen
Goat pen: fenced enclosure for housing, exercising, and managing domestic goats, designed around climbing and escape behavior; minimum space 0.6–2.8 m² per goat by stage (NFACC), 25 sq ft per goat (Cornell), with working, breeding, and kidding pen layouts. Also a place name near Badaling, Beijing.
Goat's Village Playground
Goat's Village Playground (羊村乐园, 欢乐羊村) is a small Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf themed park in Jiashan, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, open 9 AM–5 PM, with free unpowered play and two ticket-included powered rides.
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (Azerbaijan)
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, Qobustan, Azerbaijan: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007 near Baku with over 6,000 petroglyphs spanning 40,000 years on Boyukdash, Kichikdash, and Jinghirdag-Yazylytepe hills.
Goch-Asperden
Goch-Asperden, a late Roman burgus and glass workshop on the Niers river near Goch, Germany (51.705N, 6.049E): wooden fort around 340/350, stone rebuild under Valentinian I, abandoned about 420/430, with two successive glass furnaces producing Helle bowls.