GARY (Settlement) EnglishCity in Indiana that was named after businessman Elbert Henry
GARY (1846-1927), the founder of U.S. Steel.
GENOA (Settlement) EnglishFrom Latin
Genua, probably derived from
genu meaning "knee". This is the name of a port city in northwestern Italy. It is called
Genova in Italian.
GEORGIA (1) (Country) English, Italian, Spanish, Late RomanPossibly of Persian origin, maybe from Middle Persian
gurg meaning "wolf". In Europe the name was long explained as derived from the given name
George. This is the name of a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It is called
Sakartvelo in Georgia.
GERMANY (Country) EnglishFrom Latin
Germania, first attested in the writings of Julius Caesar, used to refer to the areas east of the Rhine and north of the Danube. The origin of the term is uncertain. This is an English exonym corresponding to German
Deutschland.
GETHSEMANE (Region) BiblicalFrom
Γεθσημανι (Gethsemani), the Greek form of an Aramaic place name meaning "oil press". In the New Testament this is the name of the garden where
Jesus was arrested, located on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem.
GHANA (Country) English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech, SlovakFrom the name of the Ghana Empire, which was located in the southwestern Sahara and existed up to the 13th century.
Ghana, meaning "warrior" in Mande, was actually the title of the rulers, while the empire itself was more properly known as
Awkar. In 1957 this was adopted as the name of the newly independent country of Ghana, formerly the British colony Gold Coast, despite the fact that the country lies outside the empire's territory.
GLYME (River) EnglishMeans "bright stream" in Brythonic. This is the name of a river in Oxfordshire, England.
GLYMPTON (Settlement) EnglishDerived from the name of the river
GLYME and Old English
tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of small town in Oxfordshire, England.
GORJESTAN (Country) PersianFrom Persian
گرج (Gorj) meaning "Georgia (the country)" combined with the suffix
ستان (stan) meaning "land of". This is the modern Persian name for the country of
Georgia.
GÓRKA (Settlement) PolishFrom Polish
góra meaning "mountain". This is the name of various towns in Poland.
GORYEO (Region) KoreanPossibly means "walled city" or "center" in Korean. This was the name of a kingdom that ruled most of the Korean Peninsula. The name
Korea is based on it.
GRAINVILLE (Settlement) FrenchMeans "
GUARIN's town" in Old French. This is the name of various towns in Normandy.
GRANTHAM (Settlement) EnglishFrom Old English
grand meaning "gravel" and
ham meaning "home, estate, settlement". This is the name of a town in Lincolnshire.
GREECE (Country) EnglishEnglish form of Latin
Graecia, the name used by the Romans for the land of the Greeks, derived from Greek
Γραικος (Graikos), which is of uncertain origin. It is possibly derived from the city of Graia in Boeotia.
GUINEA (Region, Country & Island) English, Italian, Spanish, GermanFrom Portuguese
Guiné, which is of unknown meaning, possibly of Berber origin. This name was used by the Portuguese to refer to a portion of western Africa. It was also applied by westerners to the island of New Guinea starting in the 16th century. It is now the name or part of the name of the countries of Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea.