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Colorado

Colorado, officially the State of Colorado and nicknamed the Centennial State, is a western United States state admitted in 1876 as the 38th, with a 2020 population of 5,773,714.

Community of Madrid

Community of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid): uniprovincial autonomous community of Spain created by Organic Law 3/1983 on 1 March 1983, capital Madrid, population about 7.1 million, seven-star flag, net contributor to regional financing.

Comoé

Comoé is an autonomous district of eastern Côte d'Ivoire, created in 2021, capital Abengourou, bordering Ghana and the Atlantic; agricultural region of coffee, cocoa, and Grand-Bassam.

Conca de Barberà

Conca de Barberà, a Catalan comarca in the province of Tarragona on the Francolí and Anguera rivers; 650.24 km², 22 municipalities, 20,748 inhabitants (2025), Montblanc as main town, DO wine region with Poblet monastery.

Connacht

Connacht (Connaught), the smallest and most westerly Irish province, comprises Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo; named for the ancient Connachta, destination of Cromwell's transplantation.

Constantine Province

Constantine Province (ولاية قسنطينة), Algeria's wilaya no. 25 in the northeast around the city of Constantine: 2,187 km², 12 communes, over 1.29 million people, a mechanical and pharmaceutical industry pole.

Copperbelt Province

Copperbelt Province, Zambia's copper-mining province centered on Kitwe and Ndola; most urbanized province (83% urban, 2,768,192 people in 2022), historic growth engine now contracting as mining shifts to North-Western Province.

Cordillera Administrative Region

Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), the Philippines' only landlocked region, created July 15, 1987 by Executive Order No. 220; six provinces plus Baguio City; 2025 GRDP PhP 394.96 billion.

Córdoba Province

Córdoba Province (Provincia de Córdoba), Argentina's second most populous province, capital city Córdoba, founded 1573; landlocked Central Region province, INDEC code 14, area 165,321 km², 427 municipalities, diversified agro-industrial economy.

Corrientes Province

Corrientes Province, northeastern Argentine province between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, capital founded 1588; INDEC code 18, about 1.17 million projected 2026 inhabitants; known for Iberá wetlands, chamamé, and carnival.

Cortona (Italy)

Cortona (Etruscan Curtun) is a Tuscan hill town in the Valdichiana, province of Arezzo, one of the twelve Etruscan cities, with 5th-century BC walls, the Tabula Cortonensis, and the MAEC museum.

Cotabato

Cotabato (formerly North Cotabato) is a landlocked province in Region XII, central Mindanao, Philippines, with capital Kidapawan City. 1,490,618 residents in 2020; 63 barangays later joined BARMM; 2024 GDP P131.23 billion.

Counties of Norway

Counties of Norway (fylker): the 15 first-level administrative regions since 1 January 2024, each with an elected county council except Oslo. Created by 2020 mergers and 2024 divisions of Viken, Vestfold og Telemark, and Troms og Finnmark.

Counties of Sweden

The counties of Sweden (Swedish: län) are the kingdom's 21 first-level administrative divisions, created in 1634, each with a state-run board and a directly elected region.

County of Provence

County of Provence (comté de Provence), feudal state in southeastern France under Barcelona, Angevin, then French rule; last Angevin count Charles III died 1481, leaving it to Louis XI as an union 'principal to principal'.

Cross River State

Cross River State, South-South Nigeria, capital Calabar; created 1967 as South-Eastern State, renamed 1976; 18 LGAs; known for Obudu Mountain Resort, Calabar Festival, Cross River National Park, and an agricultural, timber-producing economy.

Csongrád megye

Csongrád megye, officially Csongrád-Csanád megye since 4 June 2020, is a county in southeastern Hungary with seat Szeged, area 4,265 km², and 388,340 residents on 1 January 2026.

Cuanza Norte Province

Cuanza Norte (North Kwanza) is a province of Angola, capital Ndalatando in Cazengo municipality. Area 24,110 km², 17 municipalities, 659,097 residents in the 2024 census, Ambundu people, Kimbundu and Portuguese, governor João Diogo Gaspar.

Cubango Province

Cubango Province (Província do Cubango) is a province of Angola created 5 September 2024 from the split of Cuando Cubango, capital Menongue, 11 municipalities, 570,447 inhabitants (Census 2024), area 91,105 km².

Cundinamarca

Cundinamarca is a department of Colombia, one of the country's 32 first-level divisions, surrounding Bogotá on the Andean high plateau and serving as the capital's main food supplier with its 116 municipalities.

Cunene Province

Cunene Province (Província do Cunene), southern Angola, capital Ondjiva; 78,342 km², 14 municipalities, Ovambu people, semi-arid cattle-herding economy, and Angola's most drought-affected province.

Dacia Inferior

Dacia Inferior (Lower Dacia) was a Roman province in present-day Romania, created by Hadrian's division of Dacia, governed by a procurator, and renamed Dacia Malvensis around 169.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Dadra and Nagar Haveli, former Indian union territory of 491 sq km between Gujarat and Maharashtra; liberated from Portuguese rule 2 August 1954, made a union territory by the 1961 Act, merged with Daman and Diu on 26 January 2020.

Dagestan (Дагестан)

Dagestan (Дагестан), formally the Republic of Dagestan, is a federal subject of Russia on the Caspian Sea, home to more than 40 ethnic groups and centered on its capital, Makhachkala.

Dagestan Oblast

Dagestan Oblast (Дагестанская область) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire in the northeastern Caucasus, created in 1860 after the Caucasian War and dissolved in 1917.

Dalarna County

Dalarna County (Dalarnas län), central Sweden: about 286,000 residents in 15 municipalities, no coastline, Falun-Borlänge core, continental climate, forestry and mining economy, major tourism destination.

Dali Baizu Zizhizhou

Dali Baizu Zizhizhou (大理白族自治州), the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, is a Bai-minority autonomous prefecture in northwestern Yunnan, established 22 November 1956, capital Dali City, area 29,459 km², 1 city and 11 counties, home of Erhai Lake.

Damascus Governorate

Damascus Governorate (محافظة دمشق) is the Syrian governorate comprising the capital city Damascus, separate from Rural Damascus (Rif Dimashq) governorate; designated a governorate in 1972, with 1.55 million residents in 2004.

Dâmboviţa

Dâmboviţa (Dâmbovița) is a county of central-southern Romania with seat at Târgovişte, Wallachia's capital 1396–1659; first mentioned 1512, reestablished by Law 2/1968, area 4,054 km², population 475,812 (2026).

Damietta Governorate

Damietta Governorate (محافظة دمياط), a Nile Delta governorate of Lower Egypt on the Mediterranean, area 910 km², population about 1.5 million, known for furniture manufacturing, the Port of Damietta, Lake Manzala, and Ras El Bar tourism.