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.
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