word | | Geography - note |
| groups | Wallis and Futuna | both island groups have fringing reefs |
| growing | Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | deeply indented coast provides good natural harbors; short growing season |
| 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 but with enough grassland to support goat herds; dense stands of ... |
| 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 |
| Gulf | Saudi Arabia | extensive coastlines on Persian Gulf and Red Sea provide great leverage on shipping (especially crude oil) through Persian Gulf and Suez Canal |
| Gulf | Yemen | strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes |
| gypsum | Moldova | landlocked; well endowed with various sedimentary rocks and minerals including sand, gravel, gypsum, and limestone |
| habitat | United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | ... 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 public Johnston Atoll: Johnston Island and ... |
| habitation | Faroe Islands | archipelago of 17 inhabited islands and one uninhabited island, and a few uninhabited islets; strategically located along important sea lanes in northeastern Atlantic; precipitous terrain limits habitation to small coastal lowlands |
| Haiti | Dominican Republic | shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti |
| Haiti | Haiti | shares island of Hispaniola with Dominican Republic (western one-third is Haiti, eastern two-thirds is the Dominican Republic) |
| harbor | Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua has a deeply indented shoreline with many natural harbors and beaches; Barbuda has a large western harbor |
| harbor | Guernsey | large, deepwater harbor at Saint Peter Port |
| harbor | Pitcairn Islands | ... s most isolated dependency; only the larger island of Pitcairn is inhabited but it has no port or natural harbor; supplies must be transported by rowed longboat from larger ships stationed offshore |
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