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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.

Gezira

Gezira (Al Jazirah), region of east-central Sudan between the Blue and White Niles, home of the Gezira Scheme, one of the world's largest irrigated farms; RSF overran it in 2023, wheat fell 58 percent, SAF retook Wad Madani in January 2025.

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.

Ghaggar-Hakra River

The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an ephemeral India-Pakistan river whose paleochannel was a former Sutlej course, abandoned 11-8 ka, later sustaining monsoon-fed Harappan settlements and identified by many with the Vedic Sarasvati.

Ghajar (غجر)

Ghajar (غجر) is an Alawite village of about 3,000 on the Hasbani river at the junction of Israel, Lebanon, and the Golan Heights, split by the UN Blue Line in 2000.

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.

Ghamubar Zom

Ghamubar Zom (Dhuli Chhish), 6,518 m ultra in Pakistan's Hindu Raj, Ghizer District; five summits, main summit first climbed 1973 by Italians, Ghamubar Zom V first climbed 2023 by Japanese trio.

Ghana

Ghana (Republic of Ghana), West African country on the Gulf of Guinea; first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence (1957). Second-largest world cocoa producer; emerged from 2022 debt crisis with 6% growth in 2025 under an IMF program.

Ghantasala Mound

Ghantasala Mound (Lanja dibba), a Buddhist stupa mound at Ghantasala, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh; excavated by Alexander Rea in 1892, with a unique concentric brick plan, ayaka platforms, and about seventeen early Prakrit inscriptions including the 1st-century CE Bharatiyanam umbrella inscription.

Ghar El Kebir settlement

Ghar El Kebir, near El Haouaria on Tunisia's Cap Bon peninsula, is the site of ancient Punic and Roman stone quarries (latomies) that supplied Carthage from the 7th century BC; ancient Hermaea, where Agathocles landed in 310 BC.

Gharbia Governorate

Gharbia Governorate (محافظة الغربية), an Egyptian governorate in the middle Nile Delta between the Damietta and Rosetta branches; area 1,943.27 km², population 5,379,417 (2022), capital Tanta, 8 cities, industrial and agricultural economy.

Ghazi Shah Mound

Ghazi Shah Mound, locally known as Mari Khar or Piyaro ji Mari, is an Early and Mature Indus settlement mound in Johi taluka, Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan.

Ghaziabad (ग़ाज़ियाबाद)

Ghaziabad (ग़ाज़ियाबाद) is an industrial city in western Uttar Pradesh, India, about 19 km east of Delhi; founded in 1740 as Ghaziuddinnagar, it is known as the Gateway of U.P.

Ghāziābād, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ghāziābād (गाजियाबाद) district, Uttar Pradesh, India; also Ghaziuddinnagar. Industrial district east of Delhi, created 14 November 1976 from Meerut; 2011 population 3,343,000, 67.6% urban, Gateway of U.P.

Ghazipur (district)

Ghazipur district (गाजीपुर ज़िला), Uttar Pradesh, India: an eastern-UP district in Varanasi Division on the Ganga; 3,377 sq km, 3.62 million people (2011), 7 tehsils, made a separate district in 1818, distinct from Gazipur district, Bangladesh.

Ghazipur (ग़ाज़ीपुर)

Ghazipur (ग़ाज़ीपुर) is a city and district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, on the River Ganga in the Varanasi Division, known for its opium factory and the Tomb of Lord Cornwallis.

Ghazipur Mound

Ghazipur Mound: archaeological mounds (dih, khera) in Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, including ASI-protected Masaon-Dih, Suiri-ka-Raj, Dildarnagar, Bhitari, and the city mound of Raja Gadhi's fort.

Ghazni (district)

Ghazni district (غزنی) is the ADM2 district of Ghazni province, Afghanistan, containing the provincial capital Ghazni City; population about 60,458 (2015), surrounded by Taliban-influenced districts and struck by the August 2018 Taliban incursion.

Ghazni (غزنی)

Ghazni, historically Ghazna, is a city in east-central Afghanistan. It was the Ghaznavid capital, launching invasions into India before being destroyed by the Mongols in 1221.

Ghegham Volcanic Ridge

Ghegham (Gegham) Volcanic Ridge, Geghama lerner, is a Pleistocene-Holocene monogenetic volcanic field in west-central Armenia between Yerevan and Lake Sevan, with 127 centers, Azhdahak 3,597 m, obsidian domes, petroglyphs, and dragon stones.

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.

Ghetto

Ghetto: a city district where a group, originally Jews, is confined by law or force. Originated in Venice 1516; revived by Nazi Germany (1,300+ ghettos); later applied to segregated Black urban neighborhoods in the United States.

Ghiberti (Mercurian crater)

Ghiberti is an IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury, feature ID 2154, named for Italian sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455), approved 1976; about 110-123 km across, centered near 48.4 degrees south latitude.

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.

Ghirza

Ghirza, a Romano-Libyan frontier settlement in pre-desert Tripolitania, Libya, on the Wadi Ghirza; a limes Tripolitanus outpost of fortified farms, dams, and fourteen decorated mausolea, occupied from the third to sixth century AD.

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.