Gruyères Gruyres is a small town in the district of Gruyre , canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Its German name is Greyerz. The mediaeval town is an important tourist location in the upper valley of the Saane river, and gives its name to the well-known Gruyre cheese.
	Guacamole Guacamole is an avocado-based relish or Food_dip from the time of the Aztec. In addition to avocados, the basic ingredients are lime juice and edible salt. Variations often include black pepper, tomato, chile pepper, onion, coriander, garlic, and other spices.
	Guadalcanal Guadalcanal is a 2,510 square mile island in the Pacific Ocean and a province of the Solomon Islands. The island became the scene of the important Guadalcanal Campaign during World War II. The island, which is mainly jungle, contains the national capital of the Solomon Islands, Honiara, and has a population of 109,382.
	Guadalupe Fur Seal The Guadalupe Fur Seal is a fur seal. It is one of six members of the Arctocephalus genus, but the only one to be found in the Northern Hemisphere. Sealers reduced the population to just a few dozen by the late 19th century, but the species had recovered to 10,000 in number by the late 1990s.
	Guadalupe Island Guadalupe Island, or Isla Guadalupe, is a volcanic island located 241 kilometers off the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and some 400 kilometers southwest of the border city of Tijuana in Baja California state, in the Pacific Ocean.
	Guadalupe Mountains The Guadalupe Mountains are a mountain range located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The range includes the highest summit in Texas, Guadalupe Peak, and the "signature peak" of West Texas, El Capitan . The range lies southeast of the Sacramento Mountains and east of Brokeoff Mountains, extends north-northwest and northeast from Guadalupe Peak in Texas into New Mexico, 16km southwest of Carlsbad.
	Guadalupe Mountains National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and contains Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet in elevation. It also contains El Capitan, long used as a landmark by people traveling along the old route later followed by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.
	Guadeloupe Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at , with a total area of 1,780 square kilometres . It is an overseas dpartement in France of France. As with the other DOMs, Guadeloupe is also one of the twenty-six Rgions of France and an integral part of the Republic.
	Guaiacum Guaiacum is a genus in the family Zygophyllaceae. The six species are shrubs and trees, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas. The trees are grown in Florida and California as ornamental plants. The trees grow slowly and can reach a height of approximately 20 m, though it is usually less than half that.
	Guaiacum officinale Guaiacum officinale is one of the species yielding the true lignum vitae, a wood once used to treat syphilis. All species in this genus Guaiacum are -listed. Guaiacum officinale is the national flower of
	Guam Guam , officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized territory unincorporated territory of the United States. Its inhabitants are the Chamorros, who first populated the island approximately 4,000 years ago.
	Guangzhou Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province of China in northern and southern China China. The native name of the city, in Cantonese , is ?? . The city was formerly known internationally as Canton City or simply Canton, after a French language transliteration of the name of the province in Cantonese .
	Guanine Guanine is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA; the others being adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. With the formula C5H5N5O, guanine is a derivative of purine, consisting of a fused pyrimidine-imidazole ring system with conjugated double bonds.
	Guano Guano is the name given to the collected feces of seabirds and bats. It is highly prized as an effective fertilizer or gunpowder ingredient due to its high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen. Superphosphate made from guano is used for aerial topdressing.
	Guanosine Guanosine is a nucleoside comprising guanine attached to a ribose ring via a -N9-glycosidic bond. Guanosine can be phosphorylated to become GMP , cGMP , GDP and GTP . When guanine is attached to a deoxyribose ring, it is known as a deoxyguanosine.
	Guantánamo Guantnamo, also rendered as Guantanamo, is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantnamo Province. The municipality covers 2,150 km and includes the communities of Arroyo Hondo, Baitiquir, Bano, Bayate, Caimanera, Camarones, Caridad, Corralillo, Cuatro Caminos, Filipinas, Glorieta, Gobierno, Guaso, Hospital, Indios, Isleta, Jaibo Abajo, Lajas, Macurijes, Mercado, Ocujal, Parroquia, Palma de San Juan, Rastro, Tiguabos and Vnculo.
	Guaraní Guaran was one of the most important tribal groups of South America, formerly living mostly between the Uruguay River and lower Paraguay Rivers in what is now Paraguay, and the Corrientes and Entre Ros Province Provinces of Argentina.
	Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala , is a country in Central America, in the south part of North America, bordering Mexico to the northwest, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast.
	Guatemala City Guatemala City is the capital and largest city of the nation of Guatemala. It is also the largest city in Central America. Population estimates for Guatemala City is 2,541,581. The city is located at , in a mountain valley in the south central part of the country.
	Guava Guava is a genus of about 100 species of tropical shrubs and small trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America. The leaf are opposite, simple, elliptic to ovate, 5-15 cm long. The flowers are white, with five petals and numerous stamens.
	Guayaquil Santiago de Guayaquil, or just Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main sea port. Guayaquil is on the west margin of the Guayas River, which flows into the Gulf of Guayaquil in the Pacific Ocean.
	Guayule Guayule, pronounced 'wa-YOO-leh', is a shrub in the genus Parthenium of the family Asteraceae, native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The plant can be used as an alternate source of latex that is also hypoallergenic, unlike the normal para rubber tree rubber.
	Guenon The guenons are the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys. Not all the members of this genus have the word "guenon" in their common names, and because of changes in scientific classification, some monkeys in other genera may have common names that do include the word "guenon".
	Guernsey Guatemala's major diplomatic interests are regional security and, increasingly, regional development and economic integration. The Central American Ministers of Trade meet on a regular basis to work on regional approaches to trade issues. In March 1998, Guatemala joined its Central American neighbors in signing a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement .
	Guglielmo Marconi Although Guglielmo Marconi is widely credited as the "Inventor of Radio", for some this title is controversial, and competing claims are reviewed in History of radio and Invention of Radio. Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, Royal Victorian Order was an Italian-Irish inventor, best known for his development of a practical radio system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide.
	Guiana Guiana forms a portion of the northern coast of South America. It is a 2 billion year old Cambrian geological formation, possibly the oldest on the planet, that hosts the impressive and mysterious table-like mountains called tepui. Its highlands are the source of some of the world's most spectacular waterfalls such as Angel Falls, Kaieteur Falls and Kuquenan Falls.
	Guide dog Guide dogs are assistance dogs trained to lead blindness or visually impaired people around obstacles. They are commonly, but incorrectly called "Seeing Eye" dogs. The Seeing Eye is the name of only one of many guide dog training schools. Although the dogs can be trained to navigate various obstacles, they are partially color blind and are not capable of interpreting street signs.
	Guided missile destroyer A guided missile destroyer is, as the name suggests, a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. Many are also equipped to carry out Anti-submarine warfare, Anti-aircraft warfare, and ASUW Modern Naval tactics. In the United States Navy, their hull classification symbol is DDG.
	Guiding Light Guiding Light is an United States television program credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television history. The 15,000th televised episode of Guiding Light aired on September 15, 2006.
	Guild A guild is an Voluntary association of people of the same trade or pursuits , formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards of workmanship and ethical conduct. Historically guilds were formed as benefit society or small business associations, A guild was a trade union of sorts, since each crafter was a self-employed individual artisan or part of a small craft shop or co-operative.
	Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire was a poet, writer, and art critic. Among the foremost French poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirsias .
	Guilloché The guilloche interlace pattern, a conventional enriched moulding in classical architecture, may enclose empty space or be rosetted as it is here; the result is a moulding that could be said to be guilloch. Bands of guillloche, picked up from Roman and Renaissance practice, became a widely-used motif of Neoclassicism.
	Guillotine The guillotine is a device used for carrying out capital punishments by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy blade. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the victim's head. The device is famous for long being the main method of execution in France and, more particularly, for its use during the French Revolution.
	Guinea Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea , is a nation in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea. It borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal on the north, Mali on the north and north-east, the Cte d'Ivoire on the south-east, Liberia on the south, and Sierra Leone on the west.
	Guinea pig Guinea pigs are rodents belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, originally idigenous to the Andes. Despite their common name, the animals are not pigs, nor do they come from Guinea .
	Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau , is a country in western Africa, and one of the smallest nations in continental Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west. Formerly the Portugal colony of Portuguese Guinea, upon independence, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's official name in order to prevent confusion between itself and the Guinea.
	Guinean franc The Guinean franc is the currency used in the African nation of Guinea. It has the ISO 4217 currency code GNF.
	Guinevere Guinevere was the queen consort of King Arthur. The name Guinevere may be an epithetthe Welsh language form Gwenhwyfar can be translated The White Fay or White Ghost. However, as Rachel Bromwich notes in her scholarly edition of the Welsh Triads, the name can also be analyzed as "Gwenhwy-vawr" or Gwenhwy the Great in contrast to the personage "Gwenhwy-vach" – Gwenhwy the less.
	Guinness Guinness is a dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness's St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. The beer is based upon the Porter style that originated in London in the early 1700s. It is one of the most successful beer brands in the world, being exported world wide.
	Guise Guise is a Commune in France of the Aisne dpartement in France in northern France. * Population: 6,066 * Area: 15.54 km² * Altitude: 97 m
	Guitar The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a Classical guitar. It is most recognised in popular culture as the primary instrument in blues, country, flamenco and rock music.
	Guitar pick A guitar pick is a type of plectrum designed for use on a guitar. Over time people have made picks of various materials, including nylon, plastic, rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, and rock. The most often take the shape of an acute isosceles triangle with the two equal corners very rounded and the third corner rounded to a lesser extent.
	Guitar Player Guitar Player is a popular magazine for guitarists. It contains articles, interviews, reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists, genres and products. It has been in print since the late 1960s and is currently edited by Michael Molenda. Guitar Player is a part of the Music Player Network.
	Guitarfish The guitarfishes are a family, Rhinobatidae, of batoidea. Notable species include the Shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatos productus, and the Bowmouth guitarfish, Rhina ancylostoma.
	Guitarist A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar.
	Gujarat Gujarat is the most industrialized States and territories of India in the Republic of India with industrial output of 19.8% of total output in country defeating Maharashtra , which contains many of the former Princely states of India. Gujarat borders Pakistan, and the states of Rajasthan to the north-east, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territory of Diu, Daman, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south.
	Gulag Gulag is an acronym for ??????? ?????????? ????????????????????? ??????? ? ???????, "Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii", "The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies" of the NKVD. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains:
	Gulf of Aden The Gulf of Aden is located in the Indian Ocean between Yemen on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in Africa. In the northwest it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab el Mandeb sound. The Gulf of Aden is an essential waterway for Persian Gulf Petroleum, making it very important for the world ecomomy.
	Gulf of Antalya The Gulf of Antalya is an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea south of Antalya province, Turkey. It includes some of the main seaside resorts of Turkey, also known as the "Turkish riviera".
	Gulf of Aqaba The Gulf of Aqaba, also called The Gulf of Eilat in Hebrew language., is a large Headlands and bays of the Red Sea. It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland. Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia all have coastlines on the Gulf of Aqaba.
	Gulf of Bothnia The Gulf of Bothnia is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It is situated between Finland's west coast and Sweden's east coast. In the south of the gulf lie the land, between the Sea of land and the Archipelago Sea.
	Gulf of California The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexico mainland. It is bordered by the States of Mexico of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa. The name "Gulf of California" predominates on most maps in English today.
	Gulf of Carpentaria The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea. In geological terms, the Gulf is young - it was dry land as recently as the last ice age. The land bordering the Gulf is generally flat and low-lying.
	Gulf of Corinth The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth which includes the shipping route of the Corinth Canal, and in the west by the Strait of Rion, which separates the Gulf of Corinth from the outer Gulf of Patras at Cape Drepano, where the narrowest point is crossed by the Rio-Antirio bridge.
	Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland is an arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn.
	Gulf of Guinea The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. The gulf is considered the geographic center of the earth because it is zero degrees longitude and latitude . The gulf derives its name from the former names of the coasts of Africa. The south coast of West Africa, north of the Gulf of Guinea, was historically called "Upper Guinea." The west coast of Southern Africa, to the east, was historically called "Lower Guinea." The name "Guinea" is still attached to the names of thre
	Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is a major body of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America.
	Gulf of Ob The Gulf of Ob is an immense headlands and bays of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia, at the head of which is the mouth of the Ob River. This Gulf flows into the Kara Sea, which is part of the Artic Ocean. The Gulf is about 1,000 km long, and varies from about 50 km to 80 km in width, running generally north and south.
	Gulf of Riga The Gulf of Riga is a Headlands and bays of the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Estonia. The area of the Gulf of Riga is about 18,000 square km. The maximum depth is 54 m. The Saaremaa island partially separates it from the rest of the Baltic sea. The Ruhnu island middle of the gulf also belongs to Estonia.
	Gulf of Saint Lawrence Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. The river goes into the gulf through the Jacques Cartier Strait between the Cte-Nord region of Quebec and the north shore of Anticosti Island, and the Honguedo Strait between the south shore of Anticosti Island and the Gasp Peninsula.
	Gulf of Sidra Gulf of Sidra is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya; it is also known as Gulf of Sirte. It is located by the city of Sirte. The gulf's waters are the warmest of all the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Tuna fishing is of economical importance in the Gulf.
	Gulf of Suez - ||} The northern end of the Red Sea is bifurcated by the Sinai Peninsula, creating the Gulf of Suez in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east. The Gulf of Suez is a relatively young rift basin, dating back 40 million years. It stretches some 175 miles north by northeast, terminating at the Egyptian city of Suez and the entrance to the Suez Canal.
	Gulf of Thailand The Gulf of Thailand is a gulf that borders but is not part of the South China Sea, surrounded by the countries Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. The north tip of the gulf is the Bay of Bangkok at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River, near Bangkok. The gulf covers roughly 320,000 square kilometer.
	Gulf Stream The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension, the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic Ocean ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, exits through the Straits of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
	Gulf War The Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 20 nations led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order to liberate Kuwait. The war began with the Iraq invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, following Iraqi contentions that Kuwait was illegally Directional drilling petroleum across Iraqs border.
	Gulf War syndrome Gulf War syndrome or Gulf War illness is the name given to an illness with symptoms including increases in the rate of immune system disorders and birth defects, reported by combat veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. It has not always been clear whether these symptoms were related to Gulf War service.
	Gull Gulls are seabirds in the family Laridae. They are most closely related to the terns, and more distantly to the waders, auks and skimmers. Most gulls belong to the large genus Larus. They are in general medium to large Avess, typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings.
	Gully A gully is a landform created by running water erosion sharply into a hill. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in height and width. Gullying, or gully erosion, is the process by which gullies are formed.
	Gulu Gulu is the commercial and administrative centre of Gulu District in Uganda, located at 2°46'00N 32°16'00E, on the railway from Tororo to Pakwach. It is the second-largest town by population in the country, with a population of 119,430. The town is served by Gulu Airport.
	Gum arabic Gum arabic, a natural gum also called gum acacia, is a substance that is taken from two sub-Saharan species of the acacia tree, Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal. It is used primarily in the food industry as a stabilizer, but has had more varied uses in the past, including viscosity control in inks.