1. Dacca
2. Dachau
- a Nazi concentration camp (1933 - 45) in the German state of Bavaria
3. Dagestan
- a self-governing republic in SW Russia, on the shore of the Caspian Sea; capital Makhachkala
4. Dahomey
- former name for Benin
5. Dakar
- the capital of the African country of Senegal
6. Dallas
- a city and centre of the oil industry in the US state of Texas.
7. Damascus
- the capital of Syria
8. Danube
- a river which rises in the Black Forest in SW Germany and flows about 2,850 km through
Austria, Hungary, and Serbiathen forming the border between Bulgaria and Romania before
reaching the Black Sea.
- It is the second-longest river in Europe.
9. Dardanelles
- a narrow strait between Europe and Asiatic Turkey, linking the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean
Sea.
10. Dar es Salaam
- the chief port and former capital of Tanzania
11. Darling River
- a river of SE Australia which rises in the Great Dividing Range and flows south-westward to
join the Murray River.
12. Dartmoor
- a moorland district and national park in Devon
13. Darwin
- the capital of Northern Territory, Australia
14. Dead Sea
- a salt lake in the Jordan valley, on the Israel-Jordan border.
- At 400 m below sea level, it is the lowest point in the world.
15. Death Valley
- a desert basin below sea level in SE California and SW Nevada, the hottest and driest part of
North America.
16. Dee
- a river in NE Scotland, which rises in the Grampian Mountains and flows into the North Sea at
Aberdeen.
17. Dehra Dun
- a city in northern India, capital of the state of Uttaranchal.
18. Delaware
- a state of the US on the Atlantic coast; capital, Dover.
19. Delhi
- an old city in India, now part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
20. Delphi
- the seat of the Delphic Oracle and one of the most important religious sanctuaries of ancient
Greece, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.
21. Denali
- Mount McKinley
22. Denbighshire
- a county of North Wales; administrative centre, Ruthin
23. Denmark
- a Scandinavian country which consists of the greater part of the Jutland peninsula and several
neighbouring islands, between the North Sea and the Baltic; capital, Copenhagen.
24. Denver
- the capital of the US state of Colorado
25. Derbyshire
- a county of north central England; county town, Matlock.
26. Derry
27. Detroit
- a major industrial city and Great Lakes port in the US state of Michigan
28. Devil's Island
- a rocky island off the coast of Frenc Guiana, used as a French prison colony (1852-1953)
29. Devon
- a county of SW England; county town, Exeter.
30. Dhaka
- the capital of Bangladesh
31. Dieppe
- a channel port in northern France
32. Dijon
- an industrial city in east central France
33. District of Columbia
- a federal district of the US, extending over the same area as the capital city of Washington.
34. Djakarta
35. Djibouti
- a country on the NE coast of Africa; capital, Djibouti
36. Dnieper
- a river of eastern Europe, rising in Russia west of Moscow and flowing southwards through
Ukraine to the Black Sea.
37. Dodecaese
- a group of twelve Greek islands in the SE Aegean.
38. Dodoma
- the capital of Tanzania
39. Doha
- the capital of Qatar
40. Dolomite Mountains
- a range of the Alps in northern Italy
41. Dominica
- an island in the Caribbean, the largest of the Windward Islands; capital, Roseau
42. Dominican Republic
- a country in the Caribbean occupying the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola; capital, Santo
Domingo.
43. Don
- a river in Russia which rises near Tula, south-east of Moscow, and flows generally south to the
Sea of Azov.
44. Doncaster
- an industrial town and unitary council in northern England.
45. Donegal
- a county in the extreme north-west of the Republic of Ireland; capital, Lifford.
46. Dordogne
- a river of western France which rises in the Auvergne and flows westwards to meet the River
Garonne and form the Gironde estuary north of Bordeaux.
47. Dorset
- a county of SW England; county town, Dorchester
48. Douglas
- the capital of the Isle of Man
49. Douro
- a river of the Iberian peninsula, rising in central Spain and flowing west through Portugal to the
Atlantic Ocean near Oporto.
50. Dover
- a ferry port in Kent, on the coast of the English Channel
51. Down
- one of the Six counties of Northern Ireland; chief town, Downpatrick
52. Downing Street
- a street in Westminster, London. No. 10 is the official residence of the Prime Minister; No.11 is
the home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
53. Dresden
- a city in eastern Germany, the capital of Saxony.
- It was almost totally destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945.
54. Dubai
- a member state of the United Arab Emirates; capital, Dubai
55. Dublin
- the capital city of the Republic of Ireland.
- Irish name Baile Atha Cliath
56. Dublin
- a county of the Republic of Ireland; county town, Dublin
57. Dubrovnik
- a port and resort on the Adriatic coast of Croatia
58. Dumfries and Galloway
- a council area in SW Scotland; administrative centre, Dumfries.
59. Dunbartonshire
- a former county of west central Scotland, on the Clyde, divided into East Dunbartonshire and
West Dunbartonshire council areas.
60. Dundee
- a city in eastern Scotland, on the north side of the Tay estuary
61. Dunedin
- a city and port in the South Island, New Zealand.
62. Dunkirk
- a port in northern France, scene of the evacuation of 335,000 Allied troops by ships and small
boats in 1940.
63. Dun Laoghaire
- a ferry port and resort town in the Republic of Ireland, near Dublin
64. Dunnet Head
- a headland on the north coast of Scotland, between Thurso and John o'Groats.
- It is the most northerly point on the British mainland.
65. Durban
- a port and resort in South Africa, on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal
66. Durham
- a county of NE England; county town, Durham
67. Dushanbe
- the capital of the Asian republic of Tajikistan
68. Dusseldorf
- an industrial city of NW Germany, on the Rhine, capital of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
69. Dutch East Indies
- former name for Indonesia
70. Dutch Guiana
- former name for Suriname
(Sources, Oxford English Dictonary)
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Countries, city for Capital C
Countries, City for capital C are:
1. Cadiz - a city and port on the coast of SW Spain.
2. Caerdydd - Welsh name for Cardiff.
3. Caernarfon - a town in NW Wales on the Menai Strait, the administrative centre of Gwynedd.
4. Caesarea - an ancient port on the Mediterranean coast of Israel.
5. Cagliari - the capital of Sardinia.
6. Cairngorm Mountains - a mountain range in northern Scotland.
7. Cairo - the capital of Egypt.
8. Calabria - a region of SW Italy. Capital - Catanzaro
9. Calais - a ferry port in northern France.
10. Calcutta - former name (until 2000) for Kolkata.
11.California - a state of the US, on the Pacific coast. Capital - Sacramento.
12. Calvary - the hill outside Jerusalem on which Christ was crucified.
13. Camargue - a region of the Rhone delta in SE France with many shallow salt lagoons, known for
its white horses.
14. Cambodia - a country in SE Asia between Thailand and southern Vietnam. Capital - Phnom Penh.
officially called the Khmer Rebublic (1970 - 5) and Kampuchea (1976 - 89).
15. Cambridge - a city in eastern England, site of Cambridge University.
16. Cambridge - a city in eastern Massachusetts in the US, site of Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
17. Cambridgeshire - a county of eastern England; county town - Cambridge.
18. Camelot - the place where King Arthur held his court.
19. Cameroon - a country on the west coast of Africa between Nigeria and Gabon. Capital - Younde.
20. Campania - a region of southern Italy. Capital - Naples
21. Camp David - the retreat of the President of the US, in the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland.
22. Canaan - the biblical name for the area of ancient Palestine west of the River Jordan which the
Israelites conquered and occupied.
23. Canada - the second-largest country in the world, covering the entire northern half of North
America with the exception of Alaska. Capital - Ottawa
24. Canary Islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the NW coast of Africa, forming a
self-governing region of Spain; co-capitals, Las palmas (on Gran Canaria) and
Santa Cruz (on Tenerife). The main islands are Tenerife, Gran Canaria,
Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Gomera, La Palma, and Hierro.
25. Canaaveral, Cape - a cape on the east coast of Florida known as Cape Kennedy 1963 - 73), the
site of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, from which the Apollo space
missions were launched.
26. Canberra - the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory.
27. Cancun - a resort in SE Mexico, on the Ne coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
28. Cannes - a resort on the Mediterranean coast of France, site of an annual international film
festival.
29. Cantabria - a self-governing region of northern Spain. Capital - Santander.
30. Canterbury - a city in Kent, SE England.
31. Canton - Var. of Guangzhou
32. Cape Cod - a sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, USA
33. Cape of Good Hope - a mountainous headland south of Cape Town, near the southern tip of
Africa.
34. Cape Province - a former province of South Africa; it was divided in 1994 into provinces of
Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape,
35. Cape Town - the legislatice capital of South Africa and administrative capital of the province of
Western Cape.
36. Cape Verde Islands - a country consisting of a group of islands in the Atlantic off the coast of
Senegal. Capital - Praia.
37. Capitol - the seat of the US Congress in Washington DC.
38. Capri - an island off the west coast of Italy, south of Naples.
39. Caracas - the capital of Venezuela
40. Carcassonne - a walled city in SW France.
41. Cardiff - the capital of Wales. Welsh name Caerdydd.
42. Cardiganshire - a former county of SW Wales, which became part of Dyfed in 1974. The area
became a county once more in 1996, but was renamed Ceredigion.
43. Caribbean Sea - the part of the Atlantic Ocean lying between the West Indies and the mainland of
Central and South America.
44. Carlisle - a city in NW England, the county town of Cumbria.
45. Carmarthenshire - a county of South Wales; adminstrative centre, Carmarthen
46. Caroline Islands - a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean forming the Federated States of
Micronesia and the country of Palau.
47. Carpathian Mountains - a mountain system extending south-eastwards from southern Poland and
Slovakia into Romania.
48. Carpentaria, Gulf of - a large bay on the north coast of Australia.
49. Carthage - an ancient city on the coast of North Africa near present-day Tunis. Founded by the
Phoenicians c.814 BC, Carthage came into conflict with Rome in the Punic Wars, at
the end of which it was destroyed.
50. Casablanca - the largest city of Morocco, a port on the Atlantic coast.
51. Caspian Sea - a large landlocked salt lake, bounded by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Azerbaijan, and Iran. It is the world's largest body of inland water with an area of
about 371,800 sq. km.
52. Castile - a region of central Spain, formerly an independent Spanish kingdom.
53. Castilla-La Mancha - a self-governing region of central Spain. Capital - Toledo.
54. Castilla-Leon - a self-governing region of northern Spain. Capital - Valladolid.
55. Catalonia - a self-governing region of NE Spain. Capital - Barcelona.
56. Cathay - the name by which China was known to medieval Europe.
57. Catskill Mountains - a range of mountains in the state of New York, part of the Appalachian
system.
58. Caucasus - a mountainous region of SE Europe and western Asia, lying between the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea, in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and SE Russia.
59. Cavan - a county of the Republic of Ireland. County town - Cavan.
60. Cayenne - the capital and chief port of French Guiana.
61. Cayman Islands - a British dependency consisting of a group of three island in the Caribbean
Sea, south of Cuba. Capital - George Town.
62. Celebes - former name for Sulawesi
63. Celebes Sea - a part of the western Pacific between the Philippines and Sulawesi.
64. Central African Republic - a country of central Africa. Capital - Bangui.
65. Central America - the southernmost part of North America, linking the continent to South
America and consisting of the countries of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
66. Centre - a region of central France. Chief City - Orleans.
67. Cephalonia - a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
68. Ceredigion - a county of western mid Wales. Administrative centre, Aberaeron.
69. Ceylon - former name for Sri Lanka.
70. Chad - a landlocked country in northern central Africa. Capital - N'Djamena.
71. Champagne-Ardenne - a region of NE France. Chief city - Rheims.
72. Champs Elsees - an avenue in Paris, leading from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de
Triomphe.
73. Chandigarh - a city in Chandigargh Union Territory in NW India, the capital of the states of
Punjab and Haryana.
74. Channel Islands - a group of islands in the English Channel off the NW coast of France, of which
the largest are Jersy, Guernsey and Alderney.
75. Channel Tunnel - a railway tunnel under the English Channel, linking the coasts of England and
France, opened in 1994 and 49 km long.
76. Charleston - the state capital of the US state of West Virginia.
77. Charleston - a city and port in the US state of South Carolina. In 1861 Confederate troops
bombed Fort Sumter, in the harbour, marking the beginning of the American Civil
War.
78. Chartres - a city in northern France, noted for its Gothic cathedral.
79. Charybdis - a dangerous whirlpool in a narrow channel of the sea, opposite the cave of the sea
monster Scylla.
80. Chechnya - a self-governing republic in the Caucasus in SW Russia. Capital - Grozny. Also
called Chechen Republic.
81. Cheltenham - a town in western England, in Gloucestershire.
82. Chennai - a port on the east coast of India, capital of Tamil Nadu. former name (until 1995)
Madras.
83. Chequers - a mansion in Buckinghamshire the country residence of the British Prime Minister.
84. Cherbourg - a port and naval base in Normandy, northern France.
85. Chernobyl - a town near Kiew in Ukraine, site of a serious accident at a nuclear power station in
1986.
86. Chesapeake Bay - a large inlet of the North Atlantic on the US coast, extending 320 km
northwards through the states of Virginia and Maryland.
87. Cheshire - a county of west central England. County town - Chester.
88. Cheviot Hills - a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland
89. Chhattisgarh - a state in central India; capital - Raipur.
90. Chicago - a major city and port in the US state of Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
91. Chichen Itza - a site in northern Yucatan, Mexico, the centre of the Mayan empire after AD 918.
92. chile - a country on the Pacific coast of South America; capital - Santiago.
93. Chiltern Hills - a range of chalk hills in southern England, north of the River Thames.
94. China - a country in east Asia; capital - Beijing.
95. China, Republic of -official name for Taiwan.
96. China Sea - the part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China.
97. Chisinau - the capital of Moldova
98. Chongqing - a city in Sichuan province in central China, the capital of China 1938 -46.
99. Christchurch - a city on the South Island, New Zealand.
100. Christiania - former name for Oslo.
101. Cincinnati - an industrial city in the US state of Ohio.
102. Cinque Ports - a group of ports in SE England, which from the 11th to the 16th centuries were
allowed trading privileges in exchange for providing a large part of England's
navy. The five original ports were Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney, and
Hythe.
103. Clackmannanshire - a council area and former county of central Scotland; administrative centre,
Alloa.
104. Clare - a county on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland; county town, Ennis.
105. Clwyd - a former county of NE Wales, replaced in 1996 by Denbighshire and Flintshire.
106. Clyde - a river western central Scotland which flows from SE Strathclyde to the Firth of Clyde.
107. Clyde, Firth of - the estuary of the River Clyde in western Scotland.
108. Cocos Islands - a group of twenty-seven small islands in the Indian Ocean, an external territory
of Australia since 1955. Also called Keeling Islands.
109. Colditz - a castle near Leipzig, Germany, used as a top-security camp for Allied prisoners in the
Second World War.
110. Cologne - an industrial and university city in western Germany, in the state of North Rhine-
Westphalia.
111. Colombia - a country in NW South America; capital - Bogota.
112. Colombo - the capital and chief port of Sri Lanka.
113. Colorado - a river of the US which rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and
flows to the Gulf of California, passing through the Grand Canyon.
114. Colorado - a state in the central US; capital - Denver.
115. Columbia, District of
116. Commonwealth of Independent States - a confederation of independent states, consisting of
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan, established in 1992.
117. Como, Lake - a lake in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy.
118. Cooros - a country consisting of a group of islands in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar;
capital Moroni.
119. Conakry - the capital of the African country of Guinea.
120. Congo - a najor river of central Africa, which rises in northern Democratic Republic of Congo
and flows 4,630 km westwards and then southwestwards to form the border with the
Congo before emptying into the Atlantic. Also called Zaire River.
121. Congo - an equatorial country in Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic ocean; capital
Brazzaville.
122. Congo, Democratic Republic of - a country in central Africa, with a short coastline on the
Atlantic Ocean; capital Kinshasa. Former name (until 1997)
Zaire.
123. Connacht - a province in the south-west of the Republic of Ireland.
124. Connecticut - a state in the north-eastern US, on the Atlantic coast; capital, Hartford.
125. Connemara - a mountainous coastal region of Galway, in the west of the Republic of Ireland.
126. Constantinople - the former name for Istanbul from 330 to the capture of the city by the Turks
in 1453.
127. Cook, Mount - the highest peak in New Zealand, in the Southern Alps on the South Island,
rising to a height of 3,764 m. Official name Aoraki-Mount Cook.
128. Cook Islands - a group of fifteen island in the SW Pacific Ocean, a self-governing territory in
free association with New Zealand; capital, avarua on Rarotonga.
129. Copenhagen - the capital and chief port of Denmark.
130. Coral Sea - a part of the western Pacific lying between Australia, New Guinea and Vanuatu.
131. Cordoba - a city in Andalusia in southern Spain.
132. Corfu - one of the Ionian Islands, off the west coast of mainland Greece.
133. Corinth - a city on the north coast of the Peloponnese, Greece.
134. Cork - a county of the Republic of Ireland, on the south coast in the province of Munster;
county town, Cork.
135. Cornwall - a county occupying the extreme south-western peninsula of England; county town,
Truro.
136. Corsica - an island off the west coast of Italy, a region of France; chief towns, Bastia and
Ajaccio.
137. Corunna - a port in NW Spain, the point of departure for the Spanish Armada in 1588.
138. Cos
139. Costa Blanca - a resort region on the Mediterranean coast of SE Spain.
140. Costa Brava - a resort region on the Mediterranean coast of NE Spain.
141. Costa del Sol - a resort region on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain.
142. Costa Rica - a republic in Central America on the Isthmus of Panama; capital, San Jose.
143. Cote d'lvoire - official name for Ivory Coast.
144. Cotopaxi - an active volcano in the Andes of central Ecuador, at 5,896 m te highest in the world.
145. Cotswold Hills - a range of limestone hills in SW England, largely in the county of
Gloucestershire.
146. County Durham
147. Covent Garden - a distrit in central London, the site until 1974 of London's chief fruit and
vegetable market, and the home of the national opera and ballet companies,
based at the Royal Opera House.
148. Coventry - an industrial city in the west Midlands of England.
149. Cowes - a town on the Isle of Wight, southern England, famous as a yachting centre.
150. Cracow - an industrial and university city in southern Poland.
151. Crete - a Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean; capital Heraklion.
152. Crimea - a peninsula of Ukraine lying between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
153. Croatia - a country in SE Europe, formerly a republic belonging to the federation of Yugoslavia;
capital Zagreb.
154. Cystal Palace - a large building of iron and glass, designed for the Great Exjonotopm pf 1851 in
London. it burned down in 1936.
155. Cuba - a Caribbean country, the largest and furthest west of the islands of the West Indies;
capital Havana.
156. Cumberland - a former coounty of NW England, united with Westmorland and part of
Lancashire to form the county of Cumbria in 1974.
157. Cumbria - a county of NW England; county town Carlisle.
158. Curacao - the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, situated north of the Venezuelan coast.
159. Cuzco - a city in the Andes in southern Peru, capital of the Inca empire until the Spanish
conquest in 1533.
160. Cyclades - a large group of islands in the southern Aegean Sea.
161. Cymru - Welsh name for Wale
162. Cyprus - an island in the eastern Mediterranean, south of the Turkish coast; capital Nicosia.
163. Czechoslovakia - a former country in central Europe, now divided between the Czech Republic
and Slovakia.
164. Czech Republic - a country in central Europe; capital Prague.
1. Cadiz - a city and port on the coast of SW Spain.
2. Caerdydd - Welsh name for Cardiff.
3. Caernarfon - a town in NW Wales on the Menai Strait, the administrative centre of Gwynedd.
4. Caesarea - an ancient port on the Mediterranean coast of Israel.
5. Cagliari - the capital of Sardinia.
6. Cairngorm Mountains - a mountain range in northern Scotland.
7. Cairo - the capital of Egypt.
8. Calabria - a region of SW Italy. Capital - Catanzaro
9. Calais - a ferry port in northern France.
10. Calcutta - former name (until 2000) for Kolkata.
11.California - a state of the US, on the Pacific coast. Capital - Sacramento.
12. Calvary - the hill outside Jerusalem on which Christ was crucified.
13. Camargue - a region of the Rhone delta in SE France with many shallow salt lagoons, known for
its white horses.
14. Cambodia - a country in SE Asia between Thailand and southern Vietnam. Capital - Phnom Penh.
officially called the Khmer Rebublic (1970 - 5) and Kampuchea (1976 - 89).
15. Cambridge - a city in eastern England, site of Cambridge University.
16. Cambridge - a city in eastern Massachusetts in the US, site of Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
17. Cambridgeshire - a county of eastern England; county town - Cambridge.
18. Camelot - the place where King Arthur held his court.
19. Cameroon - a country on the west coast of Africa between Nigeria and Gabon. Capital - Younde.
20. Campania - a region of southern Italy. Capital - Naples
21. Camp David - the retreat of the President of the US, in the Appalachian Mountains in Maryland.
22. Canaan - the biblical name for the area of ancient Palestine west of the River Jordan which the
Israelites conquered and occupied.
23. Canada - the second-largest country in the world, covering the entire northern half of North
America with the exception of Alaska. Capital - Ottawa
24. Canary Islands - a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the NW coast of Africa, forming a
self-governing region of Spain; co-capitals, Las palmas (on Gran Canaria) and
Santa Cruz (on Tenerife). The main islands are Tenerife, Gran Canaria,
Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Gomera, La Palma, and Hierro.
25. Canaaveral, Cape - a cape on the east coast of Florida known as Cape Kennedy 1963 - 73), the
site of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, from which the Apollo space
missions were launched.
26. Canberra - the capital of Australia, in Australian Capital Territory.
27. Cancun - a resort in SE Mexico, on the Ne coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
28. Cannes - a resort on the Mediterranean coast of France, site of an annual international film
festival.
29. Cantabria - a self-governing region of northern Spain. Capital - Santander.
30. Canterbury - a city in Kent, SE England.
31. Canton - Var. of Guangzhou
32. Cape Cod - a sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, USA
33. Cape of Good Hope - a mountainous headland south of Cape Town, near the southern tip of
Africa.
34. Cape Province - a former province of South Africa; it was divided in 1994 into provinces of
Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape,
35. Cape Town - the legislatice capital of South Africa and administrative capital of the province of
Western Cape.
36. Cape Verde Islands - a country consisting of a group of islands in the Atlantic off the coast of
Senegal. Capital - Praia.
37. Capitol - the seat of the US Congress in Washington DC.
38. Capri - an island off the west coast of Italy, south of Naples.
39. Caracas - the capital of Venezuela
40. Carcassonne - a walled city in SW France.
41. Cardiff - the capital of Wales. Welsh name Caerdydd.
42. Cardiganshire - a former county of SW Wales, which became part of Dyfed in 1974. The area
became a county once more in 1996, but was renamed Ceredigion.
43. Caribbean Sea - the part of the Atlantic Ocean lying between the West Indies and the mainland of
Central and South America.
44. Carlisle - a city in NW England, the county town of Cumbria.
45. Carmarthenshire - a county of South Wales; adminstrative centre, Carmarthen
46. Caroline Islands - a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean forming the Federated States of
Micronesia and the country of Palau.
47. Carpathian Mountains - a mountain system extending south-eastwards from southern Poland and
Slovakia into Romania.
48. Carpentaria, Gulf of - a large bay on the north coast of Australia.
49. Carthage - an ancient city on the coast of North Africa near present-day Tunis. Founded by the
Phoenicians c.814 BC, Carthage came into conflict with Rome in the Punic Wars, at
the end of which it was destroyed.
50. Casablanca - the largest city of Morocco, a port on the Atlantic coast.
51. Caspian Sea - a large landlocked salt lake, bounded by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Azerbaijan, and Iran. It is the world's largest body of inland water with an area of
about 371,800 sq. km.
52. Castile - a region of central Spain, formerly an independent Spanish kingdom.
53. Castilla-La Mancha - a self-governing region of central Spain. Capital - Toledo.
54. Castilla-Leon - a self-governing region of northern Spain. Capital - Valladolid.
55. Catalonia - a self-governing region of NE Spain. Capital - Barcelona.
56. Cathay - the name by which China was known to medieval Europe.
57. Catskill Mountains - a range of mountains in the state of New York, part of the Appalachian
system.
58. Caucasus - a mountainous region of SE Europe and western Asia, lying between the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea, in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and SE Russia.
59. Cavan - a county of the Republic of Ireland. County town - Cavan.
60. Cayenne - the capital and chief port of French Guiana.
61. Cayman Islands - a British dependency consisting of a group of three island in the Caribbean
Sea, south of Cuba. Capital - George Town.
62. Celebes - former name for Sulawesi
63. Celebes Sea - a part of the western Pacific between the Philippines and Sulawesi.
64. Central African Republic - a country of central Africa. Capital - Bangui.
65. Central America - the southernmost part of North America, linking the continent to South
America and consisting of the countries of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
66. Centre - a region of central France. Chief City - Orleans.
67. Cephalonia - a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
68. Ceredigion - a county of western mid Wales. Administrative centre, Aberaeron.
69. Ceylon - former name for Sri Lanka.
70. Chad - a landlocked country in northern central Africa. Capital - N'Djamena.
71. Champagne-Ardenne - a region of NE France. Chief city - Rheims.
72. Champs Elsees - an avenue in Paris, leading from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de
Triomphe.
73. Chandigarh - a city in Chandigargh Union Territory in NW India, the capital of the states of
Punjab and Haryana.
74. Channel Islands - a group of islands in the English Channel off the NW coast of France, of which
the largest are Jersy, Guernsey and Alderney.
75. Channel Tunnel - a railway tunnel under the English Channel, linking the coasts of England and
France, opened in 1994 and 49 km long.
76. Charleston - the state capital of the US state of West Virginia.
77. Charleston - a city and port in the US state of South Carolina. In 1861 Confederate troops
bombed Fort Sumter, in the harbour, marking the beginning of the American Civil
War.
78. Chartres - a city in northern France, noted for its Gothic cathedral.
79. Charybdis - a dangerous whirlpool in a narrow channel of the sea, opposite the cave of the sea
monster Scylla.
80. Chechnya - a self-governing republic in the Caucasus in SW Russia. Capital - Grozny. Also
called Chechen Republic.
81. Cheltenham - a town in western England, in Gloucestershire.
82. Chennai - a port on the east coast of India, capital of Tamil Nadu. former name (until 1995)
Madras.
83. Chequers - a mansion in Buckinghamshire the country residence of the British Prime Minister.
84. Cherbourg - a port and naval base in Normandy, northern France.
85. Chernobyl - a town near Kiew in Ukraine, site of a serious accident at a nuclear power station in
1986.
86. Chesapeake Bay - a large inlet of the North Atlantic on the US coast, extending 320 km
northwards through the states of Virginia and Maryland.
87. Cheshire - a county of west central England. County town - Chester.
88. Cheviot Hills - a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland
89. Chhattisgarh - a state in central India; capital - Raipur.
90. Chicago - a major city and port in the US state of Illinois, on Lake Michigan.
91. Chichen Itza - a site in northern Yucatan, Mexico, the centre of the Mayan empire after AD 918.
92. chile - a country on the Pacific coast of South America; capital - Santiago.
93. Chiltern Hills - a range of chalk hills in southern England, north of the River Thames.
94. China - a country in east Asia; capital - Beijing.
95. China, Republic of -official name for Taiwan.
96. China Sea - the part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China.
97. Chisinau - the capital of Moldova
98. Chongqing - a city in Sichuan province in central China, the capital of China 1938 -46.
99. Christchurch - a city on the South Island, New Zealand.
100. Christiania - former name for Oslo.
101. Cincinnati - an industrial city in the US state of Ohio.
102. Cinque Ports - a group of ports in SE England, which from the 11th to the 16th centuries were
allowed trading privileges in exchange for providing a large part of England's
navy. The five original ports were Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney, and
Hythe.
103. Clackmannanshire - a council area and former county of central Scotland; administrative centre,
Alloa.
104. Clare - a county on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland; county town, Ennis.
105. Clwyd - a former county of NE Wales, replaced in 1996 by Denbighshire and Flintshire.
106. Clyde - a river western central Scotland which flows from SE Strathclyde to the Firth of Clyde.
107. Clyde, Firth of - the estuary of the River Clyde in western Scotland.
108. Cocos Islands - a group of twenty-seven small islands in the Indian Ocean, an external territory
of Australia since 1955. Also called Keeling Islands.
109. Colditz - a castle near Leipzig, Germany, used as a top-security camp for Allied prisoners in the
Second World War.
110. Cologne - an industrial and university city in western Germany, in the state of North Rhine-
Westphalia.
111. Colombia - a country in NW South America; capital - Bogota.
112. Colombo - the capital and chief port of Sri Lanka.
113. Colorado - a river of the US which rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and
flows to the Gulf of California, passing through the Grand Canyon.
114. Colorado - a state in the central US; capital - Denver.
115. Columbia, District of
116. Commonwealth of Independent States - a confederation of independent states, consisting of
Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan, established in 1992.
117. Como, Lake - a lake in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy.
118. Cooros - a country consisting of a group of islands in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar;
capital Moroni.
119. Conakry - the capital of the African country of Guinea.
120. Congo - a najor river of central Africa, which rises in northern Democratic Republic of Congo
and flows 4,630 km westwards and then southwestwards to form the border with the
Congo before emptying into the Atlantic. Also called Zaire River.
121. Congo - an equatorial country in Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic ocean; capital
Brazzaville.
122. Congo, Democratic Republic of - a country in central Africa, with a short coastline on the
Atlantic Ocean; capital Kinshasa. Former name (until 1997)
Zaire.
123. Connacht - a province in the south-west of the Republic of Ireland.
124. Connecticut - a state in the north-eastern US, on the Atlantic coast; capital, Hartford.
125. Connemara - a mountainous coastal region of Galway, in the west of the Republic of Ireland.
126. Constantinople - the former name for Istanbul from 330 to the capture of the city by the Turks
in 1453.
127. Cook, Mount - the highest peak in New Zealand, in the Southern Alps on the South Island,
rising to a height of 3,764 m. Official name Aoraki-Mount Cook.
128. Cook Islands - a group of fifteen island in the SW Pacific Ocean, a self-governing territory in
free association with New Zealand; capital, avarua on Rarotonga.
129. Copenhagen - the capital and chief port of Denmark.
130. Coral Sea - a part of the western Pacific lying between Australia, New Guinea and Vanuatu.
131. Cordoba - a city in Andalusia in southern Spain.
132. Corfu - one of the Ionian Islands, off the west coast of mainland Greece.
133. Corinth - a city on the north coast of the Peloponnese, Greece.
134. Cork - a county of the Republic of Ireland, on the south coast in the province of Munster;
county town, Cork.
135. Cornwall - a county occupying the extreme south-western peninsula of England; county town,
Truro.
136. Corsica - an island off the west coast of Italy, a region of France; chief towns, Bastia and
Ajaccio.
137. Corunna - a port in NW Spain, the point of departure for the Spanish Armada in 1588.
138. Cos
139. Costa Blanca - a resort region on the Mediterranean coast of SE Spain.
140. Costa Brava - a resort region on the Mediterranean coast of NE Spain.
141. Costa del Sol - a resort region on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain.
142. Costa Rica - a republic in Central America on the Isthmus of Panama; capital, San Jose.
143. Cote d'lvoire - official name for Ivory Coast.
144. Cotopaxi - an active volcano in the Andes of central Ecuador, at 5,896 m te highest in the world.
145. Cotswold Hills - a range of limestone hills in SW England, largely in the county of
Gloucestershire.
146. County Durham
147. Covent Garden - a distrit in central London, the site until 1974 of London's chief fruit and
vegetable market, and the home of the national opera and ballet companies,
based at the Royal Opera House.
148. Coventry - an industrial city in the west Midlands of England.
149. Cowes - a town on the Isle of Wight, southern England, famous as a yachting centre.
150. Cracow - an industrial and university city in southern Poland.
151. Crete - a Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean; capital Heraklion.
152. Crimea - a peninsula of Ukraine lying between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
153. Croatia - a country in SE Europe, formerly a republic belonging to the federation of Yugoslavia;
capital Zagreb.
154. Cystal Palace - a large building of iron and glass, designed for the Great Exjonotopm pf 1851 in
London. it burned down in 1936.
155. Cuba - a Caribbean country, the largest and furthest west of the islands of the West Indies;
capital Havana.
156. Cumberland - a former coounty of NW England, united with Westmorland and part of
Lancashire to form the county of Cumbria in 1974.
157. Cumbria - a county of NW England; county town Carlisle.
158. Curacao - the largest island of the Netherlands Antilles, situated north of the Venezuelan coast.
159. Cuzco - a city in the Andes in southern Peru, capital of the Inca empire until the Spanish
conquest in 1533.
160. Cyclades - a large group of islands in the southern Aegean Sea.
161. Cymru - Welsh name for Wale
162. Cyprus - an island in the eastern Mediterranean, south of the Turkish coast; capital Nicosia.
163. Czechoslovakia - a former country in central Europe, now divided between the Czech Republic
and Slovakia.
164. Czech Republic - a country in central Europe; capital Prague.
Saturday, 22 June 2013
The World start with capital B
Countries or places which start with B:
1. Babel @ Tower of Babel
2. Babylon - ancient city in Mesopotamia. It was the capital of Babylonia in the 2nd millennium BC
and was famous for its Hanging Garden
3. Babylonia - an ancient region and powerful kingdom of Mesopotamia
4. Baffin Island - a large island in te Canadian Arctic, Situated at the mouth of Hudson Bay.
5. Baghdad - the capital of Iraq
6. Bahamas - a country consisting of a group of islands off the SE coast of Florida, part of the West
Indies - capital Nassau
7. Bahrain - a sheikhdom consisting of a group of islands in the Persian Gulf - capital Manama
8. Baikal, Lake - a large lake in southern Siberia. It is the largest freshwater lake in Europe and Asia
and, with a depth of 1,743 m, the deepest lake in the world.
9. Baile Atha Cliath - Irish name for Dublin
10. Baku - capital of Azerbaijan
11. Balearic Islands - a group of islands in the western Mediterranean forming a self-governing
region of Spain, with four large islands (Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, formentera)
and seven smaller ones - capital Palma
12. Bali - mountainaous island of Indonesia.
13. Balkans - the countries occupying the Peninsula in SE Europe bounded by the Adriatic and
Jonian Seas in he West, the Aegean and Black Seas in the east, and the Mediterranean
in the south
14. Ballarat - city in Victoria, Australia, formerly the centre of a rich gold-mining industry
15. Balmoral Castle - a Scottish castle used by the British royal family as a holiday residence.
16. Baltic Sea - an almost landlocked sea of northern Europe, between Sweden, Finland, Russia,
Poland, Germany, and Denmark.
17. Baltimore - a port in north Maryland, USA
18. Bamako - capital of Mali
19. Bandar Seri Begawan - capital of Brunei, on the island of Borneo
20. Bangalore - city in south central India, capital of the state of Karnataka
21. Bangkok - capital and chief port of Thailand
22. Bangladesh - country of the Indian subcontinent, in the Ganges delta
23. Bangui - the capital of the Central African Republic
24. Banjul - capital of Gambia
25. Barbados - an island country of the West Indies, part of the Windward Island group - capital
Bridgetown.
26. Barbuda
27. Barcelona - a city on the coast of NE, Spain- capital of Catalonia
28. Barents Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia
29. Basilicata - region of southern Italy - capital Potenza
30. Basle - a commercial and industrial city in NW switzerland
31. Basque Provinces - self- governing region of northern Spain - Capital Vitoria
32. Basra - a city and port of Iraq on the Shatt al-Arab waterway
33. Basse-Normandie - regoin of NW France, on the English Channel - chief city, Caen
34. Basseterre - capital of St. Kitts and Nervis in the Leeward Island, on the island of St. Kitts
35. Bass Strait - channel separating tasmania from the mainland of Australia
36. Bastille - a fortress and prison in Paris. It was stormed by a mob on 14 July 1789, an event which
marked the start of the French Revolution.
37. Bath - a spa town in SW England, founded by the Romans
38. Bavaria - a state of southern Germany, capital Munich
39. Bayeux - a town in Normandy in France, famous for the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth
about 70 metres long, illustrating events leading up to the Norman Conquest and made
between 1066 and 1077
40.Bay of Bengal, Bay of Biscay
41. Bayreuth - town in Bavaria in Germany, where regular festivals of Wagner's operas are held
42. Bedfordshire - a country of south central England, country town Bedford
43. Beijing - the capital of China
44. Beirut - the capital of Lebanon
45. Belarus - a country in eastern Europe, capital, Minsk. Formerly called Belorussia
46. Belau
47. Belfast - the capital and chief port of Northern Ireland
48. Belgium - a country in Western Europe on the south shore of the North Sea and English Channel;
capital, Brussels
49. Belgrade - capital of Serbia
50. Belize - a country on the Caribbean coast of Central America; capital, Belmopan. Former
name(until 1973) British Honduras
51. Belmopan - the capital of Belize
52. Belorussia -former name for Belarus
53. Belsen - a Nazi concentration camp in the second World War, in NW Germany
54. Benelux - the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg as an economic union
55. Bengal - a former province in the north-east of the Indian subcontinent. in 1947, it was divided
into West Bengal, which became a state of India and East Bengal, now Bangladesh.
56. Bengal, Bay of - a part of the Indian Ocean lying between India to the west and Burma and
Thailand to the east.
57. Benin - a country of West Africa; capital, Porto Novo. Former name (until 1975) Dahomey.
58. Ben Nevis - a mountain in western Scotland. Rising to 1,343 m it is the highest in the British
Isles.
59. Bergen - a port in SW Norway, a centre of the fishing and North Sea oil industries.
60. Bering Sea - an arm of the North Pacific lying between NE Siberia and Alaska.
61. Bering Strait - a narrow sea passage which separates the eastern tip of Siberia from Alaska and
links the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea, about 85 km wide at its narrowest
point
62. Berkeley - a city in western California, a site of a campus of the University of California
63. Berkshire - a former county of southern England, west of London, divided in 1998 into six
unitary authorities.
64. Berlin - the capital of Germany. At the end of the Second World War the city was divided into
two parts: West Berlin, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany, and East Berlin, the
capital of the German Democratic Republic. The two parts were reunited in 1990.
65. Berlin Wall - a fortified wall built in 1961 by the communist authorities between East and West
Berlin. it was opened in November 1989 after the collapse of the communist
regime in East Germany and later dismantled.
66. Bermuda - a UK overseas territor consisting of about 150 small islands off the coast of North
Carolina; capital, Hamilton.
67. Bermuda Triangle - an area of the western Atlantic Ocean where a large number of ships and
aircraft are said to have mysteriously disappeared.
68. Berne - the capital of Switzerland.
69. Bethlehem - a small town near Jerusalem; it was the native city of King David and, according to
the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, the birthplace of Jesus
70. Beverly Hills - a city in California, on the NW side of Los Angeles, the home of many film star.
71. Bharat - Hindi name for India
72. Bhopal - the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
73. Bhutan - a small independent kingdom on the south-eastern slopes of the Himalayas; capital,
Thimphu
74. Biafra - a state proclaimed in 1967, when part of eastern Nigeria declared independence. In the
ensuing civil war the new state's troops were defeated, and by 1970 it had ceased to exist
75. Big Ben - the great clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London and its bell
76. Bihar - a state in NE, India; capital Patna
77. Bikini - an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific, used by the US between 1946 and
1958 as a site for testing nuclear weapons.
78. Bilbao - a port and industrial city in northern Spain
79. Billingsgate - a large London fish market originally situated near London Bridge and now
located at the Isle of Dogs in the East End.
80. Birmingham - an industrial city in west central England
81. Biscay, Bay of - the North Atlantic between the north coast of Spain and the west coast of
France, noted for its strong currents and storms.
82. Bishkek - the capital of Kyrgyzstan
83. Bissau - the capital of the African country of Guinea-Bissau
84. Black Country - an industrial district of the English Midlands
85. Black Forest - a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, lying to the east of the Rhine valley
86. Black Hole of Calcutta - a dungeon 6 metres square in Fort William, Calcutta, where perhaps as
many as 146 English prisoners were imprisoned overnight after the
capture of the city by the nawab (governor) of Bengal in 1756. only
twenty-three prisoners were alive the next morning.
87. Blackpool - a seaside resort in NW England
88. Black Sea - a tideless almost landlocked sea bounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey,
Bulgaria and Romania
89. Bloemfontein - the capital of Free State province and judicial capital of South Africa.
90. Blue Nile - one of the two main headwaters of the Nile, rising in NW Ethiopia and meeting the
White Nile at Khartoum
91. Blue Ridge Mountains - a range of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US, stretching from
southern Pennyslvania to northen Georgia
92. Bodrum - a resort town on the coast of western Turkey, site of the ancient Greek city of
Halicarnassus
93. Bogota - the capital of Colombia. Official name Santa Fe De Bogota
94. Bohemia - a region forming the western part of the Czech Republic
95. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - official name for Venezuela
96. Bolivia - a landlocked country in South America; capital, La Paz
97. Bologna - a city in northern Italy; capital of Emilia-Romagna region.
98. Bombay - former name (until 1995) for Mumbai
99. Bonaire - one of the two main islands for the Netherlands Antillies; chief town, Kralendijk
100. Bondi - a coastal resort in New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
101. Bonn - a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, the capital of the Federal
Republic of Germany from 1949 until the reunification of Germany in 1990.
102. Bordeaux - a port of SW France on the River Garonne, capital of Aquitaine and a centre of the
wine trade.
103. Borneo - a large island of the Malay Archipelago
104. Bosnia-Herzegovina - a country in the Balkans in SE Europe, formally a republic belonging to
the federation of Yugoslavia; capital Sarajevo
105. Bosporus - a strait connecting the Black Seas with the Sea of Marmara, with Istanbul at its
south end
106. Boston - the capital of the US state of Massachusetts
107. Botany Bay - a bay in New South Wales, Australia, the site of Captain James Cook's landing in
1770.
108. Botswana - a landlocked country in southern Africa; capital, Gaborone
109. Boulogne - a ferry port and fishing town in northern France
110. Bournemouth - a resort on the south coast of England, a unitary council formerly in Dorset.
111. Bradford - an industrial city in northern England, a unitary council formerly in Yorkshire
112. Brahmaputra - a river of southern Asia, rising in the Himalayas and flowing through Tibet, NE
India and Bangladesh, to join the Ganges at the Bay of Bengal
113. Brasilia - the capital of Brazil
114. Bratislava - the capital of Slovakia
115. Brazil - the largest country in South America capital, Brasilia
116. Brazzaville - the capital of the Republic of Congo
117. Bremen - a state of NE Gernamy; capital, Bremen
118. Brest 1 - a port and naval base in France, on the Atlantic coast of Brittany
119. Brest 2 - a river port and industrial city in Belarus.
120 .Bridgetown - the capital of Barbados
121. Brighton - a resort on the south coast of England., noted for its Regency architecture. It
became a city in 2000
122. Brisbane - the capital of Queensland, Australia
123. Bristol - a city and port on the River Avon in SW England.
124. Bristol Channel - a wide inlet of the Atlantic between South Wales and the south-western
peninsula of England, narrowing into the estuary of the River Severn.
125. Britain - the island containing England, Wales and Scotland, and including the small adjacent
island.
126. British antarctic Territory - part of Antarctica claimed by Britain in 1962, formerly part of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies.
127. British Columbia - a province on the west coast of Canada; capital, Victoria
128. British Empire - a former empire consisting of Great Britain and its colonies, territories, and
dependencies, which reached its peak around 1920, when over 600 million
people were ruled from London.
129. British Honduras - formerly name for Belize
130. British Isles - a group of islands lying off the coast of NW Europe, including Britain, Ireland,
the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Island, the Shetland Islands, the Scilly
Isles, and the channel Islands.
131. British Virgin Islands
132. Brittany - a region of NW France, on the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel; chief city.
Rennes
133. Brno - an industrial city in the Czech Republic, the capital of Moravia
134. Broads - a network of shallow lakes, linked by slow-moving rivers, in Norfolk and Suffolk
135. Broadway - a street running through the length of Manhattan in New York, famous for its
Theaters
136. Bronx - a borough in the north-east of New York City
137. Brooklyn - a borough of New York City
138. Bruges - a city in NW Belgium, caital of the province of West Flanders
139. Berunei - a sultanate on the NW coast of Borneo; capital Bandar Seri Begawan
140. Brunswick - an industrial city and former duchy and state of northern Germany
141. Brussels - the capital of Belgium and home of the headquarters of the European Commission
142. Bucharest - the capital of Romania
143. Buchenwald - a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War, near the village of
Buchenwald in eastern Germany.
144. Buckingham Palace - the London home of the British sovereign since 1837
145. Buckinghamshire - a county of central England; conty town, Aylesbury
146. Budapest - the capital of Hungary
147. Buenos Aires - the capital and chief port of Argentina
148. Bujumbura - the capital of the African country of Burundi
149. Bulawayo - an industrial city in western Zimbabwe
150. Bulgaria - a contry in SE Europe on the western shores of the Black Sea; capital, Sofia
151. Burgundy - a region of east central France; chief city, Dijon
152. Burkina Faso - a landlocked country in western Africa; capital, Ouagadougou. Former name
(until 1984) Upper Volta
153. Burma - a country in SE Asia, on the Bay of Bengal; capital, Naypyidaw. Official name Union
of Myanmar
154. Burundi - a central African country on the east side of Lake Tanganyika; capital, Bujumbura
155. Byelorussia
156. Byzantine Empire - the empire in SE Europe and Asia Minor(present-day Turkey) formed form
the eastern part of the Roman Empire in AD 395. It came to an end with
the loss of Constantinople (fomerly Byzantium) in 1453.
157. Byzantium - an ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century BC, at the southern end of the
Bosporus. It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great as Constantinople (modern
Istanbul)
Sources from Oxford English Dictionary
1. Babel @ Tower of Babel
2. Babylon - ancient city in Mesopotamia. It was the capital of Babylonia in the 2nd millennium BC
and was famous for its Hanging Garden
3. Babylonia - an ancient region and powerful kingdom of Mesopotamia
4. Baffin Island - a large island in te Canadian Arctic, Situated at the mouth of Hudson Bay.
5. Baghdad - the capital of Iraq
6. Bahamas - a country consisting of a group of islands off the SE coast of Florida, part of the West
Indies - capital Nassau
7. Bahrain - a sheikhdom consisting of a group of islands in the Persian Gulf - capital Manama
8. Baikal, Lake - a large lake in southern Siberia. It is the largest freshwater lake in Europe and Asia
and, with a depth of 1,743 m, the deepest lake in the world.
9. Baile Atha Cliath - Irish name for Dublin
10. Baku - capital of Azerbaijan
11. Balearic Islands - a group of islands in the western Mediterranean forming a self-governing
region of Spain, with four large islands (Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, formentera)
and seven smaller ones - capital Palma
12. Bali - mountainaous island of Indonesia.
13. Balkans - the countries occupying the Peninsula in SE Europe bounded by the Adriatic and
Jonian Seas in he West, the Aegean and Black Seas in the east, and the Mediterranean
in the south
14. Ballarat - city in Victoria, Australia, formerly the centre of a rich gold-mining industry
15. Balmoral Castle - a Scottish castle used by the British royal family as a holiday residence.
16. Baltic Sea - an almost landlocked sea of northern Europe, between Sweden, Finland, Russia,
Poland, Germany, and Denmark.
17. Baltimore - a port in north Maryland, USA
18. Bamako - capital of Mali
19. Bandar Seri Begawan - capital of Brunei, on the island of Borneo
20. Bangalore - city in south central India, capital of the state of Karnataka
21. Bangkok - capital and chief port of Thailand
22. Bangladesh - country of the Indian subcontinent, in the Ganges delta
23. Bangui - the capital of the Central African Republic
24. Banjul - capital of Gambia
25. Barbados - an island country of the West Indies, part of the Windward Island group - capital
Bridgetown.
26. Barbuda
27. Barcelona - a city on the coast of NE, Spain- capital of Catalonia
28. Barents Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia
29. Basilicata - region of southern Italy - capital Potenza
30. Basle - a commercial and industrial city in NW switzerland
31. Basque Provinces - self- governing region of northern Spain - Capital Vitoria
32. Basra - a city and port of Iraq on the Shatt al-Arab waterway
33. Basse-Normandie - regoin of NW France, on the English Channel - chief city, Caen
34. Basseterre - capital of St. Kitts and Nervis in the Leeward Island, on the island of St. Kitts
35. Bass Strait - channel separating tasmania from the mainland of Australia
36. Bastille - a fortress and prison in Paris. It was stormed by a mob on 14 July 1789, an event which
marked the start of the French Revolution.
37. Bath - a spa town in SW England, founded by the Romans
38. Bavaria - a state of southern Germany, capital Munich
39. Bayeux - a town in Normandy in France, famous for the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth
about 70 metres long, illustrating events leading up to the Norman Conquest and made
between 1066 and 1077
40.Bay of Bengal, Bay of Biscay
41. Bayreuth - town in Bavaria in Germany, where regular festivals of Wagner's operas are held
42. Bedfordshire - a country of south central England, country town Bedford
43. Beijing - the capital of China
44. Beirut - the capital of Lebanon
45. Belarus - a country in eastern Europe, capital, Minsk. Formerly called Belorussia
46. Belau
47. Belfast - the capital and chief port of Northern Ireland
48. Belgium - a country in Western Europe on the south shore of the North Sea and English Channel;
capital, Brussels
49. Belgrade - capital of Serbia
50. Belize - a country on the Caribbean coast of Central America; capital, Belmopan. Former
name(until 1973) British Honduras
51. Belmopan - the capital of Belize
52. Belorussia -former name for Belarus
53. Belsen - a Nazi concentration camp in the second World War, in NW Germany
54. Benelux - the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg as an economic union
55. Bengal - a former province in the north-east of the Indian subcontinent. in 1947, it was divided
into West Bengal, which became a state of India and East Bengal, now Bangladesh.
56. Bengal, Bay of - a part of the Indian Ocean lying between India to the west and Burma and
Thailand to the east.
57. Benin - a country of West Africa; capital, Porto Novo. Former name (until 1975) Dahomey.
58. Ben Nevis - a mountain in western Scotland. Rising to 1,343 m it is the highest in the British
Isles.
59. Bergen - a port in SW Norway, a centre of the fishing and North Sea oil industries.
60. Bering Sea - an arm of the North Pacific lying between NE Siberia and Alaska.
61. Bering Strait - a narrow sea passage which separates the eastern tip of Siberia from Alaska and
links the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea, about 85 km wide at its narrowest
point
62. Berkeley - a city in western California, a site of a campus of the University of California
63. Berkshire - a former county of southern England, west of London, divided in 1998 into six
unitary authorities.
64. Berlin - the capital of Germany. At the end of the Second World War the city was divided into
two parts: West Berlin, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany, and East Berlin, the
capital of the German Democratic Republic. The two parts were reunited in 1990.
65. Berlin Wall - a fortified wall built in 1961 by the communist authorities between East and West
Berlin. it was opened in November 1989 after the collapse of the communist
regime in East Germany and later dismantled.
66. Bermuda - a UK overseas territor consisting of about 150 small islands off the coast of North
Carolina; capital, Hamilton.
67. Bermuda Triangle - an area of the western Atlantic Ocean where a large number of ships and
aircraft are said to have mysteriously disappeared.
68. Berne - the capital of Switzerland.
69. Bethlehem - a small town near Jerusalem; it was the native city of King David and, according to
the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke, the birthplace of Jesus
70. Beverly Hills - a city in California, on the NW side of Los Angeles, the home of many film star.
71. Bharat - Hindi name for India
72. Bhopal - the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
73. Bhutan - a small independent kingdom on the south-eastern slopes of the Himalayas; capital,
Thimphu
74. Biafra - a state proclaimed in 1967, when part of eastern Nigeria declared independence. In the
ensuing civil war the new state's troops were defeated, and by 1970 it had ceased to exist
75. Big Ben - the great clock tower of the Houses of Parliament in London and its bell
76. Bihar - a state in NE, India; capital Patna
77. Bikini - an atoll in the Marshall Islands, in the western Pacific, used by the US between 1946 and
1958 as a site for testing nuclear weapons.
78. Bilbao - a port and industrial city in northern Spain
79. Billingsgate - a large London fish market originally situated near London Bridge and now
located at the Isle of Dogs in the East End.
80. Birmingham - an industrial city in west central England
81. Biscay, Bay of - the North Atlantic between the north coast of Spain and the west coast of
France, noted for its strong currents and storms.
82. Bishkek - the capital of Kyrgyzstan
83. Bissau - the capital of the African country of Guinea-Bissau
84. Black Country - an industrial district of the English Midlands
85. Black Forest - a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, lying to the east of the Rhine valley
86. Black Hole of Calcutta - a dungeon 6 metres square in Fort William, Calcutta, where perhaps as
many as 146 English prisoners were imprisoned overnight after the
capture of the city by the nawab (governor) of Bengal in 1756. only
twenty-three prisoners were alive the next morning.
87. Blackpool - a seaside resort in NW England
88. Black Sea - a tideless almost landlocked sea bounded by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey,
Bulgaria and Romania
89. Bloemfontein - the capital of Free State province and judicial capital of South Africa.
90. Blue Nile - one of the two main headwaters of the Nile, rising in NW Ethiopia and meeting the
White Nile at Khartoum
91. Blue Ridge Mountains - a range of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern US, stretching from
southern Pennyslvania to northen Georgia
92. Bodrum - a resort town on the coast of western Turkey, site of the ancient Greek city of
Halicarnassus
93. Bogota - the capital of Colombia. Official name Santa Fe De Bogota
94. Bohemia - a region forming the western part of the Czech Republic
95. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - official name for Venezuela
96. Bolivia - a landlocked country in South America; capital, La Paz
97. Bologna - a city in northern Italy; capital of Emilia-Romagna region.
98. Bombay - former name (until 1995) for Mumbai
99. Bonaire - one of the two main islands for the Netherlands Antillies; chief town, Kralendijk
100. Bondi - a coastal resort in New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Sydney.
101. Bonn - a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, the capital of the Federal
Republic of Germany from 1949 until the reunification of Germany in 1990.
102. Bordeaux - a port of SW France on the River Garonne, capital of Aquitaine and a centre of the
wine trade.
103. Borneo - a large island of the Malay Archipelago
104. Bosnia-Herzegovina - a country in the Balkans in SE Europe, formally a republic belonging to
the federation of Yugoslavia; capital Sarajevo
105. Bosporus - a strait connecting the Black Seas with the Sea of Marmara, with Istanbul at its
south end
106. Boston - the capital of the US state of Massachusetts
107. Botany Bay - a bay in New South Wales, Australia, the site of Captain James Cook's landing in
1770.
108. Botswana - a landlocked country in southern Africa; capital, Gaborone
109. Boulogne - a ferry port and fishing town in northern France
110. Bournemouth - a resort on the south coast of England, a unitary council formerly in Dorset.
111. Bradford - an industrial city in northern England, a unitary council formerly in Yorkshire
112. Brahmaputra - a river of southern Asia, rising in the Himalayas and flowing through Tibet, NE
India and Bangladesh, to join the Ganges at the Bay of Bengal
113. Brasilia - the capital of Brazil
114. Bratislava - the capital of Slovakia
115. Brazil - the largest country in South America capital, Brasilia
116. Brazzaville - the capital of the Republic of Congo
117. Bremen - a state of NE Gernamy; capital, Bremen
118. Brest 1 - a port and naval base in France, on the Atlantic coast of Brittany
119. Brest 2 - a river port and industrial city in Belarus.
120 .Bridgetown - the capital of Barbados
121. Brighton - a resort on the south coast of England., noted for its Regency architecture. It
became a city in 2000
122. Brisbane - the capital of Queensland, Australia
123. Bristol - a city and port on the River Avon in SW England.
124. Bristol Channel - a wide inlet of the Atlantic between South Wales and the south-western
peninsula of England, narrowing into the estuary of the River Severn.
125. Britain - the island containing England, Wales and Scotland, and including the small adjacent
island.
126. British antarctic Territory - part of Antarctica claimed by Britain in 1962, formerly part of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies.
127. British Columbia - a province on the west coast of Canada; capital, Victoria
128. British Empire - a former empire consisting of Great Britain and its colonies, territories, and
dependencies, which reached its peak around 1920, when over 600 million
people were ruled from London.
129. British Honduras - formerly name for Belize
130. British Isles - a group of islands lying off the coast of NW Europe, including Britain, Ireland,
the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Orkney Island, the Shetland Islands, the Scilly
Isles, and the channel Islands.
131. British Virgin Islands
132. Brittany - a region of NW France, on the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel; chief city.
Rennes
133. Brno - an industrial city in the Czech Republic, the capital of Moravia
134. Broads - a network of shallow lakes, linked by slow-moving rivers, in Norfolk and Suffolk
135. Broadway - a street running through the length of Manhattan in New York, famous for its
Theaters
136. Bronx - a borough in the north-east of New York City
137. Brooklyn - a borough of New York City
138. Bruges - a city in NW Belgium, caital of the province of West Flanders
139. Berunei - a sultanate on the NW coast of Borneo; capital Bandar Seri Begawan
140. Brunswick - an industrial city and former duchy and state of northern Germany
141. Brussels - the capital of Belgium and home of the headquarters of the European Commission
142. Bucharest - the capital of Romania
143. Buchenwald - a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War, near the village of
Buchenwald in eastern Germany.
144. Buckingham Palace - the London home of the British sovereign since 1837
145. Buckinghamshire - a county of central England; conty town, Aylesbury
146. Budapest - the capital of Hungary
147. Buenos Aires - the capital and chief port of Argentina
148. Bujumbura - the capital of the African country of Burundi
149. Bulawayo - an industrial city in western Zimbabwe
150. Bulgaria - a contry in SE Europe on the western shores of the Black Sea; capital, Sofia
151. Burgundy - a region of east central France; chief city, Dijon
152. Burkina Faso - a landlocked country in western Africa; capital, Ouagadougou. Former name
(until 1984) Upper Volta
153. Burma - a country in SE Asia, on the Bay of Bengal; capital, Naypyidaw. Official name Union
of Myanmar
154. Burundi - a central African country on the east side of Lake Tanganyika; capital, Bujumbura
155. Byelorussia
156. Byzantine Empire - the empire in SE Europe and Asia Minor(present-day Turkey) formed form
the eastern part of the Roman Empire in AD 395. It came to an end with
the loss of Constantinople (fomerly Byzantium) in 1453.
157. Byzantium - an ancient Greek city, founded in the 7th century BC, at the southern end of the
Bosporus. It was rebuilt by Constantine the Great as Constantinople (modern
Istanbul)
Sources from Oxford English Dictionary
Friday, 21 June 2013
Trip to Melaka
Although it was a short vacation but its kinda enjoyable. Goes for vacation with my family is something that i wait for a long time, since i can't take any vacation randomly without a reason, so it's quite precious time for me to spend my time with my family. Besides, my sister only able to returned home during school holiday since she still training as a teacher in KL. We went to KL on 6 June 2013 used Airasia Airline....... luckily, our flight on scheduled without any problem and without delayed. At KL, we straight went to TBS for our next destination, that is Melaka.
We arrived in Melaka around 3 o'clock. we just rested for the first day. on our 2nd day, we went for a Cruised at Melaka River. Before that, we went to Muzium Samudera.
After that, we went for river cruise, it took 45 min.
Before, we went for river cruise, we managed to experienced other unique attraction on our way to the port.
On the third day, we went further up, we went to the Tamingsari, park and Mall....
Quite a memory, right......
After that, we went for river cruise, it took 45 min.
On the third day, we went further up, we went to the Tamingsari, park and Mall....
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