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Chechnya (Чечня)
Chechnya (Чечня), officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, with its capital at Grozny, known internationally for the two Chechen wars of the 1990s and 2000s.
Chelyabinsk Oblast (Челябинская область)
Chelyabinsk Oblast (Челябинская область), a Russian federal subject in the Southern Urals founded 17 January 1934 from the Ural Region, with about 3.39 million people, Chelyabinsk as capital, and a metallurgy-led industrial economy.
Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast (Черкаська область) is an administrative division of central Ukraine on both banks of the Dnipro River, formed in 1954 with its capital at Cherkasy.
Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast (Чернівецька область), Ukraine's smallest oblast (8,097 km²), formed 7 August 1940 from northern Bukovyna and part of Bessarabia; capital Chernivtsi; borders Romania and Moldova; population about 900,000.
Chiapas
Chiapas, Mexico's southeasternmost state, capital Tuxtla Gutiérrez, borders Guatemala; 5.5 million people, 12 indigenous peoples, highest poverty rate (67.4% in 2022), 1994 Zapatista uprising, El Chichón volcano.
Chiba Prefecture (千葉県)
Chiba Prefecture (千葉県), east of Tokyo on the Boso Peninsula, was formed in 1873 by merging Kisarazu and Inba prefectures. Capital Chiba City; 6th-largest prefecture by population; major Keiyo industrial belt.
Chihuahua (state)
Estado de Chihuahua (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua), Mexico's largest state by area, created 6 July 1824; borders Texas and New Mexico; capital the city of Chihuahua; 67 municipalities; manufacturing and border-trade economy.
Chikwawa District
Chikwawa District, a district in southern Malawi on the west bank of the Shire River, population about 564,684 (2019), flood-prone Lower Shire Valley with the Elephant Marsh, maize-based agriculture, and Lengwe National Park.
Chimbu Province
Chimbu (Simbu) Province, a mountainous Highlands province of Papua New Guinea with capital Kundiawa, named from a Kuman word for thank you; smallholder coffee producer, home to Mount Wilhelm (4,509 m), population 458,406 (2024 census).
Chinland
Chinland is a self-governing polity in Myanmar's Chin State, proclaimed via an interim constitution and the Chinland Council on 6 December 2023 by the Chin National Front and allied CDFs, governing contested territory against the junta and the rival Chin Brotherhood bloc.
Chittagong Division
Chittagong Division (চট্টগ্রাম বিভাগ), officially Chattogram Division, is the largest and southeasternmost of Bangladesh's eight administrative divisions, covering 33,904 square kilometers and including the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Chon Buri
Changwat Chon Buri (จังหวัดชลบุรี) is an eastern Thai province on the Gulf of Thailand, 80 km from Bangkok, home to Pattaya, Laem Chabang port, and the Eastern Economic Corridor; third most populous province with 2,288,684 people (2025 census).
Chongqing (重庆)
Chongqing (重庆), a province-level municipality in Southwest China on the upper Yangtze, established 1997. Covers 82,400 km² with 31.87 million residents (2025), 37 districts and counties, GDP 3.38 trillion yuan, and China's largest auto production.
Chubut Province
Chubut Province (Provincia del Chubut), Argentine Patagonian province with capital Rawson; 603,120 inhabitants (2022 census); Welsh settlement Y Wladfa since 1865; province since 1955; oil, fishing, and wool economy; governor Ignacio Torres.
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (Чукотский автономный округ)
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (Чукотский автономный округ), Russia's northeasternmost federal subject at the Bering Strait opposite Alaska: 737,700 km², direct federation member since 1992, capital Anadyr, Chukchi-majority indigenous population, gold mining and reindeer herding.
Chungcheongnam-do
Chungcheongnam-do (충청남도, South Chungcheong Province), created 1896 from the split of Chungcheong Province, is a west-central South Korean province of 8,245 km² and about 2.12 million people, an industrial hub for semiconductors, displays, automotive, and petrochemicals.
Chuuk State
Chuuk State, one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, centers on Chuuk Lagoon (Truk) plus the Mortlocks, Pattiw, Namonuito, and Halls outer atolls; most populous FSM state, capital Weno, declining census counts, lowest GDP per capita.
Chuvashia (Чувашия)
Chuvashia (Чăваш Республики, Чувашская Республика), a republic of Russia on the middle Volga with capital Cheboksary; homeland of the Turkic Chuvash people; autonomous oblast 1920, ASSR 1925, sovereignty declared 1990.
Chuzhou
Chuzhou Shi (滁州市), prefecture-level city in eastern Anhui between the Yangtze and Huai rivers; 2 districts, 4 counties, 2 county-level cities; 2025 GDP 422.1 billion yuan; known for Langya Mountain and Ouyang Xiu's Zuiweng Ting Ji.
Cibitoke Province
Cibitoke Province, former northwestern Burundi province with capital Cibitoke town; six communes including Rugombo and Mabayi; merged into Bujumbura province by the 2023 reform; farming, gold mining, Congolese refugee influx.
Cluj
Cluj (Județul Cluj) is a northwestern Romanian county with capital Cluj-Napoca, 6,674.4 km2, 701,564 residents (2026, third of 42 counties), 5 municipalities, 1 town, 75 communes, established 1968.
Coahuila
Coahuila de Zaragoza, a northern Mexican border state with capital Saltillo, third largest by area, heavily industrial (autos, steel, coal), Mexico's safest state by ENVIPE 2026, and the only entity never governed by a party other than the PRI.
Coahuila y Tejas
Coahuila y Tejas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas) was a Mexican federal state, 1824–1835, uniting Texas with Coahuila under the 1827 constitution; representation grievances and colonization disputes led to the Texas Revolution.
Coast Province
Coast Province (Mkoa wa Pwani), former province of Kenya on the Indian Ocean, abolished by the 2010 Constitution; now six counties (Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana River, Lamu, Taita Taveta) with a tourism- and port-driven coastal economy.
Coast Region
Coast Region (Mkoa wa Pwani) is a Tanzanian administrative region around Dar es Salaam, capital Kibaha, 32,547 km², 2,024,947 people (2022), seven districts, launched 1972, among Tanzania's lowest per capita GDP regions.
Cochabamba Department
Departamento de Cochabamba (Cochabamba Department), a central Bolivian department created 23 January 1826 under Sucre: 16 provinces, 55,631 km2, no international borders, 2,005,373 people per Censo 2024, capital Cochabamba city, Chapare coca region, Bs3,057.4M tax collection Jan-Aug 2025.
Colima
Colima is a small state on Mexico's Pacific coast, bordered by Jalisco and Michoacán, with the city of Colima as capital and Manzanillo as its main port.
Collines Department
Collines Department (Département des Collines), central Benin administrative division created in 1999 from Zou; six communes, capital Dassa-Zoumè since 2016; 717,477 inhabitants (2013 census), 13,931 km², agriculture-based economy.
Colony of Natal
Colony of Natal: British colony in southeastern Africa, annexed 1843, separate from the Cape Colony by the Charter of Natal, 15 July 1856; known for Indian indentured labour (1860–1911) and Zululand annexation 1897; ended with the 1910 Union of South Africa.
Colony of Victoria
The Colony of Victoria was a British colony in south-eastern Australia, created in 1851 from the Port Phillip District's separation from New South Wales, becoming self-governing in 1855.