Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Goraj Mound

Goraj Mound is an archaeological site in Goraj village, Vadodara district, Gujarat, identified through 1980s excavations as the early temple site of Mahadeopura, with a large brick temple plinth.

Gorée (Île de Gorée) is a 28-hectare Senegalese island 3.5 km off Dakar, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978, famed for the House of Slaves and Door of No Return, though historians dispute its scale as a slave-trading hub.

Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (Turkey)

Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (Göreme Millî Parkı ve Kapadokya), a mixed UNESCO World Heritage site in Nevşehir, Türkiye, inscribed 1985: fairy-chimney tuff landscape, Byzantine rock churches, and the underground cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu.

Gorge of Samaria Biosphere Reserve

Gorge of Samaria Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere site in Crete, Greece, designated 1981 around the Samaria Gorge National Park (1962); 58,484 ha, endemic Cretan wild goat, cypress forests, seasonal tourism.

Gorham's Cave Complex

Gorham's Cave Complex, Gibraltar: four sea-level caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016, preserving about 120,000 years of Neanderthal and early modern human occupation, the last recorded Neanderthals, and a Neanderthal rock engraving over 39,000 years old.

Gorhambury Ancient Site

Gorhambury Ancient Site is a late Iron Age farmstead and Roman villa on the Gorhambury estate near Verulamium at St Albans, excavated from 1972 to 1982.

Gorkhatri

Gorkhatri (Gor Khatri), Peshawar's fortified archaeological complex in the Walled City, a Mughal caravanserai (Sarai Jahanabad, 1641) built by Jahan Ara Begum over 8.5 m of deposits spanning about 2,300 years; UNESCO Tentative List 2026.

Gorki

Gorki (Russian for "hillocks") is the name of several places in Russia and Belarus, including a Moscow cascade park, a Lenin museum estate, and a Sochi resort.

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).

Görresburg

Görresburg, also Matronenheiligtum Görresburg, is a Roman sanctuary of the Aufan Matrons on a spur near Nettersheim in the German Eifel, part of the vicus Marcomagus on the Cologne–Trier road, excavated from 1909 and shown in the Nettersheim archaeological park.

Gors Fawr stone circle

Gors Fawr stone circle: Bronze Age ring of 16 stones, about 22 m across, near Mynachlog-ddu in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire; eight spotted dolerite bluestones, a stone pair 120 m away, scheduled monument PE117.

Gorszewice

Gorszewice, a village in Greater Poland (Kaźmierz commune, Szamotuły county), first recorded in 1394, site of a rich Lusatian culture Hallstatt C cemetery with Italian and Alpine imports, excavated from 1873.

Görtschach

Görtschach (Goritschach, Goriče) names several Austrian Alpine villages, chiefly one in Hermagor-Pressegger See, Carinthia, plus a Roman imperial-cult site near Lienz, a medieval noble family, and a Carinthian youth home under investigation.

Gossine Folk Village

Gossine Folk Village (고씨네민속촌) is a theme-park-classified attraction in Yeonje-gu, Busan, showcasing traditional Korean architecture and culture; a family-friendly stroll site near Yeonsan, distinct from a same-named Jeju restaurant.

Gothenburg Botanical Garden

Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Göteborgs botaniska trädgården, Botaniska), a 175-hectare botanical garden in Gothenburg, Sweden, opened 1919–1923, led by Carl Skottsberg; 20,000 species, Michelin-listed rock garden, Sweden's largest orchid collection.

Gough and Inaccessible Islands

Gough and Inaccessible Islands: uninhabited South Atlantic volcanic islands in the Tristan da Cunha group, UK Overseas Territory; UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995, extended 2004), famed for seabird colonies and endemics, threatened by introduced house mice on Gough.

Gouri Park

Gouri Park (حديقة قوري للتسلية) is an amusement park in El Oued, Algeria, in the Oued Souf region, with two steel roller coasters, 24-hour listed hours, government ownership, and ratings around 4.0 from over 200 reviews.

Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve

Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR), a UNESCO MAB site designated 9 June 2015 in South Africa's southern Cape; its 3.19-million-hectare domain is the only place where the Fynbos, Succulent Karoo, and Maputaland–Pondoland–Albany hotspots converge.

Gournay-sur-Aronde

Gournay-sur-Aronde sanctuary: Iron Age Celtic religious site at Le Parc, Oise, France, inside a Bellovaci oppidum; excavated 1975-1984 by Jean-Louis Brunaux; first identified Celtic sanctuary, with weapon, animal, and human-bone deposits and a later Gallo-Roman fanum.

Govt. Ayurveda College Botanic Garden

Govt. Ayurveda College Botanic Garden is a medicinal plant garden at Poojappura in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, serving the Government Ayurveda College, one of Kerala's oldest Ayurveda teaching institutions.

Grabbist Hillfort

Grabbist Hillfort is an unfinished univallate Iron Age hillfort on the edge of Grabbist Hill in Dunster parish, Exmoor, Somerset, one of only seven hillforts in the region.

Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery, Chicago: private Victorian rural cemetery founded 1860 by Thomas B. Bryan, now an arboretum; resting place of Pullman, Field, Burnham, Sullivan; National Register 2001.

Gradus Massilitanorum

Gradus Massilitanorum, an ancient Roman station and port on the Rhône between Fossae Marianae and Arles, recorded in the Itinerarium Maritimum as the first river access point for navigation to Arles.

Graeco-Roman theater at Isthmia

Graeco-Roman theater at Isthmia, in the Sanctuary of Poseidon on the Isthmus of Corinth: first built late 5th century BC with a rectilinear cavea and sunken orchestra, rebuilt in the late 4th century BC and under Nero, used mainly for musical contests, later quarried for Justinian's Hexamilion wall.

Graias Gonu

Graias Gonu (Γραίας γόνυ) was an ancient coastal town or station in Egypt, perhaps at Kom Nadoura/Marsa Berek, attested in two texts, dated 330 BC–AD 300, Barrington Atlas 73 E2, Pleiades 716568.

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.

Grampians National Park

Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) is a heritage-listed park in western Victoria, Australia, famed for Aboriginal rock art, Mount William, and the 164 km Grampians Peaks Trail; heavily affected by 2024-25 bushfires.

Gramrianae

Gramrianae (Gramrianis, Rappiana/Rampiana) was a Roman road station on the Via Militaris in Moesia Superior, about 12-13 miles north of Naissus near modern Aleksinac, Serbia; its exact site near Draževac remains unlocated.