word | | Geography - note |
| growing | United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands: scattered vegetation consisting of grasses, prostrate vines, and low growing shrubs; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife; closed to the ... |
| Guantanamo | Navassa Island | strategic location 160 km south of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; mostly exposed rock with numerous solution holes (limestone sinkholes) but with enough grassland to support goat herds; dense ... |
| Guiana | Venezuela | on major sea and air routes linking North and South America; Angel Falls in the Guiana Highlands is the world's highest waterfall |
| Guinea | Nigeria | the Niger enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea |
| Guinea | Papua New Guinea | shares island of New Guinea with Indonesia; one of world's largest swamps along southwest coast |
| Guinean | Guinea | the Niger and its important tributary the Milo have their sources in the Guinean highlands |
| Gulf | Bahrain | close to primary Middle Eastern petroleum sources; strategic location in Persian Gulf, through which much of the Western world's petroleum must transit to reach open ocean |
| Gulf | Iran | strategic location on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, which are vital maritime pathways for crude oil transport |
| Gulf | Iraq | strategic location on Shatt al Arab waterway and at the head of the Persian Gulf |
| Gulf | Jordan | strategic location at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and as the Arab country that shares the longest border with Israel and the occupied West Bank |
| Gulf | Kuwait | strategic location at head of Persian Gulf |
| Gulf | Nigeria | the Niger enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea |
| Gulf | Qatar | strategic location in central Persian Gulf near major petroleum deposits |
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