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Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape
Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2015, is a sacred mountain in northeastern Mongolia traditionally held to be where Genghis Khan was born and buried.
Great Caucasus Biosphere Reserve
Great Caucasus Biosphere Reserve (Böyük Qafqaz Biosfer Rezervi), Azerbaijan's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated June 2026 on the southern Greater Caucasus slopes, 245 m to over 3,600 m.
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Great Court is the main courtyard of Trinity College, Cambridge, laid out 1593-1615 by Master Thomas Nevile and reputedly Europe's largest enclosed courtyard. Features the Great Gate (1518-35), fountain (c.1600), 1610 clock, and the Great Court Run tradition.
Great Gobi Biosphere Reserve
Great Gobi Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in south-west Mongolia designated 1990 over 6,839,160 ha, protects wild Bactrian camel, Gobi bear, and snow leopard in Central Asian desert.
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area (GHNPCA), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014 in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, India: 90,540 ha park, sanctuaries, and Ecozone buffer protecting Western Himalayan biodiversity.
Great Kyz Kala
Great Kyz Kala (Greater Kyz Kala, "Maiden Fortress") is the largest surviving monumental köshk, an 8th/9th-century corrugated earthen palace at Merv, Turkmenistan, likely a governor's suburban residence.
Great Lemhill Farm Roman villa
Great Lemhill Farm Roman villa: scheduled Romano-British courtyard villa 550m NE of Great Lemhill Farm, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, occupied 2nd-4th century AD, known from a 1937 excavation and 2011 geophysical survey.
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is a protected area of about 35,000 km² joining Kruger, Limpopo, and Gonarezhou national parks across Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, established by treaty in 2002.
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği (Divriği Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifası): 1228–29 Mengücekid complex in Sivas Province, Turkey, by emir Ahmed Shah and Turan Melek; first Turkish UNESCO World Heritage site, 1985, criteria (i) and (iv).
Great Mosque of Aleppo
Great Mosque of Aleppo (Jāmiʿ Ḥalab al-Kabīr), the Great Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo's Old City, Syria. Founded early 8th century, Seljuk minaret of 1090 collapsed 2013; restored with Chechen funding and reopened October 8, 2026.
Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve
Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, 885 sq km reserve on Great Nicobar Island, India, designated 6 January 1989 and added to UNESCO's World Network in 2013; home to Shompen and Nicobarese and site of the Great Nicobar Project.
Great Northern Railway Buildings
Great Northern Railway Buildings: a 1987 National Historic Landmark district in Glacier National Park, Montana, comprising Many Glacier Hotel, Sperry and Granite Park Chalets, and the Two Medicine Store, built 1913-1915 in Swiss chalet style.
Great Ocean Road
Great Ocean Road, a 242 km coastal road in Victoria, Australia, from Torquay to Allansford; built 1919-1932 by over 3000 WWI returned servicemen as a war memorial, opened 26 November 1932.
Great Pyramid of Cholula
Great Pyramid of Cholula (Tlachihualtepetl, "man-made mountain"), Puebla, Mexico: world's largest pyramid by volume, c. 4.45 million cubic meters, 66 m tall, built 3rd century BCE to 9th century CE, topped by the church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios.
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 Sandy Biosphere Reserve
The Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Queensland, Australia, designated in 2009, spanning 1.416 million hectares and containing K'gari and the Great Sandy Strait.
Great Sandy National Park
Great Sandy National Park, Queensland: two sections, mainland Cooloola and K'gari (formerly Fraser Island), the world's largest sand island, World Heritage listed 1992; Cooloola Recreation Area covers 61,750 ha.
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.
Great Temple of Hera
Great Temple of Hera (Heraion, Samos): colossal uncompleted dipteral Ionic temple begun under Polycrates, 55.16 x 108.63 m, 155 columns, one standing; successor to the 8th-century Hekatompedos and the 570 BC Rhoikos temple.
Great Volzhsko-Kamsky Biosphere Reserve
Great Volzhsko-Kamsky Biosphere Reserve (Большой Волжско-Камский биосферный резерват), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Tatarstan, Russia, designated 2005 around the Volzhsko-Kamsky zapovednik's Raifa and Sarali sections, expanded 2007 to four clusters of nearly 160,000 ha.
Great Wall Cinema
Great Wall Cinema (长城影视基地) is a theme park and film studio complex in Lanzhou New Area, Gansu, China, opened for trial operation in July 2017, known for replicas of a sphinx, a Greek temple, and Chinese dynastic buildings; not related to the 2016 film The Great Wall.
Great Wall of China (长城)
Great Wall of China (长城), a series of walls, fortresses, and beacon towers across northern China built from the 3rd century BC to the 17th century AD, joined under Qin Shi Huang and mainly rebuilt by the Ming; over 20,000 km, UNESCO-listed 1987.
Great Wall of Gorgan
The Great Wall of Gorgan, also known as the Red Snake, is a Sasanian fortified wall in northern Iran, built in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur
Great Ziggurat of Aššur, temple tower of the god Ashur at Assur (Qal'at Sherqat), Iraq; first erected by Shamshi-Adad, rebuilt by Adad-nirari I, still standing, with 2025 UNESCO emergency conservation.
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe: ruined dry-stone capital of a Shona kingdom (11th–15th centuries) near Masvingo, Zimbabwe; Hill Complex, Great Enclosure, Valley Ruins; Indian Ocean gold trade; UNESCO site since 1986.
Greater Blue Mountains Area
The Greater Blue Mountains Area is a UNESCO World Heritage site of 1.03 million hectares of sandstone plateaux and eucalypt forest inland from Sydney, inscribed in 2000.
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.
Greek Mythology Theme Park
Greek Mythology Theme Park (Θεματικό Πάρκο Ελληνικής Μυθολογίας) names two Greek attractions: a closed, for-sale 13-exhibit monster sculpture park in Pyrgos, Elis, and the Pitarokilis family's 3,000 m² mythology and Minoan park in Psychro, Lasithi, Crete.
Greek Temple at Taras
Greek Temple at Taras (Doric Temple, Temple of Poseidon), Taranto: archaic 6th-century BC Doric sanctuary of the Spartan colony, two surviving 8.47 m columns in Piazza Castello, probably dedicated to a female deity.
Greek theater of Morgantina
The Greek theater of Morgantina is a Hellenistic open-air theater near Aidone in Sicily, built in the mid-third century BCE and used for performances and assemblies.