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For one reason or another, your theme is not adding the header and footer.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/layout/#directory

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Your code works fine for me on my test site.
Maybe try just changing

echo do_shortcode('[gd_popular_post_category category_limit=5]');

with

echo do_shortcode('[gd_cpt_categories post_type=gd_place max_level=0 max_count=2]');

For anyone looking at this topic, here is more info: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/faqs/how-do-i-remove-the-popular-categories-section-from-the-home-page/

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I’ll get Stiofan to have a look at your question. Thanks.

Please post the URL of those pages and your WP admin details in a private reply, then we can have a check.
If you review this article, you probably can fix it yourself: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-your-style/

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The Romania [country] page will have a URL like /location/romania and will show all listings that have been added in the country Romania.
The Romania [category] page will have a URL like /places/romania-1 and will show all listings that have been categorised in the category Romania.
Google will crawl both pages, and decide which has the better content somehow.

How can I prevent location page urls and categories and subcategories urls to cannibalize themselves?

What do you mean? All URL settings are at GD > Permalinks.

Location pages by default have this URL: /location/country/region/city or shorter than.
Category pages start with /custom-post-type-name/category

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/layout/#directory

If we can get the URL of that page then we can have a look for you.

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You do not have any addresses for the listings. It works fine if you add an address.
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