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GANA (Country) Western African, Akan, Ewe, Portuguese, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Mongolian, Korean
Form of GHANA.

GARY (Settlement) English
City in Indiana that was named after businessman Elbert Henry GARY (1846-1927), the founder of U.S. Steel.

GÊNES (Settlement) French
French form of GENOA.

GENOA (Settlement) English
From 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.

GÉNOVA (Settlement) Spanish
Spanish form of GENOA.

GENOVA (Settlement) Italian
Italian form of GENOA.

GENUA (Settlement) Ancient Roman, German, Dutch
Latin, German and Dutch form of GENOA.

GEÓRGIA (Country & Political Subdivision) Portuguese
Portuguese form of GEORGIA (1) or GEORGIA (2).

GEORGIA (1) (Country) English, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Greek, Late Roman
Possibly 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 Georgian.

GEORGIA (2) (Political Subdivision & Country) English, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch
From the given name GEORGE, named in honour of the British king George II. This was the name of an American colony, later a state.

GÉORGIE (Country & Political Subdivision) French
French form of GEORGIA (1) or GEORGIA (2).

GEORGIË (Country) Dutch
Dutch form of GEORGIA (1).

GEORGIEN (Country) German, Swedish, Danish
German, Swedish and Danish form of GEORGIA (1).

GERMANIA (Country) Ancient Roman, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Georgian
Latin, Italian, Greek, Romanian and Georgian form of GERMANY.

GERMANIYA (Country) Russian, Bulgarian
Russian and Bulgarian form of Germania (see GERMANY).

GERMANY (Country) English
From 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.

GERUSALEMME (Settlement) Italian
Italian form of JERUSALEM.

GETHSEMANE (Region) Biblical
From Γεθσημανί (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.

GETHSEMANI (Region) Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Form of GETHSEMANE used in the Greek and Latin Bibles.

GHANA (Country) English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Arabic, Indonesian, Malay
From 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.

GIAPPONE (Country) Italian
Italian form of JAPAN.

GIORDANIA (Country) Italian
Italian form of JORDAN (the country).

GIORDANO (River) Italian
Italian form of JORDAN (the river).

GLYME (River) English
Means "bright stream" in Brythonic. This is the name of a river in Oxfordshire, England.

GLYMPTON (Settlement) English
Derived from the name of the river GLYME and Old English tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of small town in Oxfordshire, England.

GORJ (Country) Persian (Archaic)
Archaic Persian name of GEORGIA (1), possibly from Middle Persian gurg meaning "wolf".

GORJESTAN (Country) Persian
From 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) Polish
From Polish góra meaning "mountain". This is the name of various towns in Poland.

GORYEO (Region) Korean
Possibly 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.

GRAECIA (Country) Ancient Roman
Latin form of GREECE.

GRAINVILLE (Settlement) French
Means "GUARIN's town" in Old French. This is the name of various towns in Normandy.

GRANTHAM (Settlement) English
From Old English grand meaning "gravel" and ham meaning "home, estate, settlement". This is the name of a town in Lincolnshire.

GRÉCIA (Country) Portuguese
Portuguese form of Graecia (see GREECE).

GRECIA (Country) Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Graecia (see GREECE).

GREECE (Country) English
English form of Latin Graecia, the name used by the Romans for the land of the Greeks, derived from Greek Γραικός (Graikos), which is of uncertain origin. It is possibly derived from the city of Graia in Boeotia.

GRUZIYA (Country) Russian, Bulgarian
Russian and Bulgarian form of GORJ, used as the name for the country of Georgia.

GUINÉ (Region, Country & Island) Portuguese
Portuguese form of GUINEA.

GUINEA (Region, Country & Island) English, Italian, Spanish, German
From 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 full name of the countries of Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea.

GUINÉE (Region, Country & Island) French
French form of GUINEA.

GUINEE (Region, Country & Island) Dutch
Dutch form of GUINEA.

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