word | | Terrain |
| Glorioso | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... Bassas da India (Iles Eparses): atoll, awash at high tide; shallow (15 m) lagoon Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island: low, flat, and sandy Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): low, flat ... |
| Gobi | Mongolia | vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central |
| good | Armenia | Armenian Highland with mountains; little forest land; fast flowing rivers; good soil in Aras River valley |
| good | Georgia | ... the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi (Kolkhida Lowland) opens to the Black Sea in the west; Mtkvari River Basin in the east; good soils in river valley flood plains, foothills of Kolkhida Lowland |
| gradual | Moldova | rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea |
| gradually | Greenland | flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast |
| Gran | Paraguay | grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere |
| Grande | France | ... rising to hills and small mountains Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin ... |
| granitic | Seychelles | Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs |
| grassy | Mongolia | vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central |
| grassy | Paraguay | grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere |
| grassy | Rwanda | mostly grassy uplands and hills; relief is mountainous with altitude declining from west to east |
| gravel | Qatar | mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel |
| Great | Azerbaijan | large, flat Kur-Araz Ovaligi (Kura-Araks Lowland) (much of it below sea level) with Great Caucasus Mountains to the north, Qarabag Yaylasi (Karabakh Upland) in west; Baku lies on Abseron Yasaqligi ... |
| Great | Ethiopia | high plateau with central mountain range divided by Great Rift Valley |
| Great | Georgia | largely mountainous with Great Caucasus Mountains in the north and Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the south; Kolkhet'is Dablobi (Kolkhida Lowland) opens to the Black Sea in the west; Mtkvari River Basin ... |
| Great | Jordan | mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River |
| Great | Kenya | low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west |
| greatest | World | the greatest ocean depth is the Mariana Trench at 10,924 m in the Pacific Ocean |
| Greenland | Arctic Ocean | ... Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than ... |
| ground | Saint Helena | ... plateaus and plains Ascension: surface covered by lava flows and cinder cones of 44 dormant volcanoes; ground rises to the east Tristan da Cunha: sheer cliffs line the coastline of the nearly ... |
| group | Saint Helena | the islands of this group result from volcanic activity associated with the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge Saint Helena: rugged, volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains Ascension: surface covered by lava flows and ... |
| Group | Seychelles | Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs |
| groups | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... thermal springs Iles Crozet: a large archipelago formed from the Crozet Plateau is divided into two groups of islands Iles Kerguelen: the interior of the large island of Ile Kerguelen is composed ... |
| grows | Southern Ocean | ... at depths of 400 to 800 m (the global mean is 133 m); the Antarctic icepack grows from an average minimum of 2.6 million sq km in March to about 18.8 million ... |
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