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Campinas

Campinas, major municipality in interior São Paulo, Brazil, seat of the Campinas Metropolitan Region; founded 1774, city 1842; 1.14 million people (2022 census), technology hub with UNICAMP, CNPEM, and Viracopos airport.

Campo Grande

Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), Brazil's Cidade Morena: capital since 1977, 898,100 people (2022 census), 8,082 km², Cerrado cattle-railway origins (1914 NW railway), agro-service economy; distinct from Campo Grande in Rio Grande do Norte and Alagoas.

Cananéia

Cananéia is a coastal municipality on the island of Cananéia in southern São Paulo state, Brazil, among the earliest sites of Portuguese occupation in the country.

Cape Winelands District Municipality

Cape Winelands District Municipality (CWDM), formerly Boland District Municipality, a Western Cape district municipality of about 22,318 km² comprising Witzenberg, Drakenstein, Stellenbosch, Breede Valley, and Langeberg local municipalities, seat Stellenbosch, mayor Elna von Schlicht.

Capricorn District Municipality

Capricorn District Municipality (DC35) is a district municipality in central Limpopo, South Africa, named for the Tropic of Capricorn; seat Polokwane; local municipalities Blouberg, Lepelle-Nkumpi, Molemole, Polokwane; Limpopo's largest regional economy.

Cariacica

Cariacica, Espírito Santo, Brazil; municipality in Grande Vitória metro region, created 25 November 1890 from Vitória territory; 376,200 inhabitants (IBGE 2025), Monte Mochuara symbol, 96% urban population.

Casey

Casey (City of Casey) is a local government area 40 km southeast of Melbourne, Victoria's largest and fastest-growing municipality; council dismissed 2020, elections restored October 2024. Distinct from the federal Division of Casey and the Canberra suburb.

Cat Island, Bahamas

Cat Island, also known as San Salvador, is a long Bahamian island of 388.5 square kilometers, featuring Mount Alvernia, the country's highest point, and a disputed Columbus landfall site.

Caxias do Sul

Caxias do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul's Serra Gaúcha, Brazil, is a city founded by Italian immigrants in 1875; second largest municipality in the state, a leading metalworking hub, and home of the Festa Nacional da Uva.

Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD), formerly Reedy Creek Improvement District, is the Florida special district governing Walt Disney World's 25,000 acres. Renamed and placed under a governor-appointed five-member board by HB 9-B in February 2023 after the DeSantis-Disney dispute, with a 2024 settlement with Disney.

Central Jakarta

Central Jakarta (Jakarta Pusat) is the smallest of Jakarta's five administrative cities, formed in 1966, the center of Indonesian government and business, with about 1.04 million residents and the highest density in the capital.

Changthang district

Changthang district (བྱང་ཐང་) is a district in the Union Territory of Ladakh, India, with its headquarters at Nyoma; it was carved from Leh district in 2026 as one of five new districts.

Chaoyang, Beijing

Chaoyang District (朝阳区), eastern Beijing's largest and most populous urban district: 470.8 km², 3.44 million residents, Beijing CBD, nearly all foreign embassies, and RMB 923 billion 2024 GDP.

Chapecó

Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil: western Santa Catarina's largest city and agroindustrial pole, founded 1917, about 289,000 inhabitants in 2026, a leading meat-processing hub with MBRF, Aurora, JBS, and Ecofrigo plants.

Chelyabinskiy Gorodskoy Okrug

Chelyabinskiy Gorodskoy Okrug (Chelyabinsky Urban Okrug) is the municipal formation covering Chelyabinsk, administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast; an urban okrug with intracity division, the only Russian urban district with two-level local self-government, about 1.13 million residents (2010 census).

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Cherry Hill Township, Camden County, New Jersey: a Philadelphia-area suburb incorporated as Delaware Township in 1844 and renamed in 1961; 79,965 residents in 2025, Camden County's largest municipality for ten straight years.

Cheshire

Cheshire, a county in north-west England, was reorganized on 1 April 2009 into the unitary authorities Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester; it covers about 905 square miles, has over 1 million residents, and joined the Cheshire and Warrington Combined Authority in 2026.

Chester County, Pennsylvania

Chester County, Pennsylvania, is a county west of Philadelphia founded by William Penn in 1682 as one of Pennsylvania's three original counties, with its seat at West Chester.

Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States

Chesterfield County, Virginia, a county founded May 25, 1749 from Henrico County, just south of Richmond; fourth-most populous Virginia county, 364,548 residents in 2020, site of Henricus and first commercially mined coal in North America.

Chirumanzu District

Chirumanzu District (Chirumhanzu, formerly Chilimanzi) is a rural district of Midlands Province, Zimbabwe, with its seat at Mvuma; 95,272 people at the 2022 census, 459,120 ha, 25 wards, chiefs Chirumhanzu and Hama.

Chris Hani District Municipality

Chris Hani District Municipality (DC13) is a Category C district municipality in the north-eastern Eastern Cape, South Africa, seated in Komani with six local municipalities, 828,387 residents, and a qualified audit outcome since 2022.

Čierny Brod

Čierny Brod is a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, Slovakia (postal code 925 08), known for a 1966 rescue excavation that uncovered an Avar Khaganate cemetery of 19 graves, including equestrian grave 63 with a partially buried horse.

City of Brisbane

City of Brisbane: the Queensland local government area run by Brisbane City Council, formed by the 1925 amalgamation of 20 authorities under the City of Brisbane Act 1924; Australia's largest council by population, 26 wards, governed by the City of Brisbane Act 2010.

City of Brussels

City of Brussels (Ville de Bruxelles, Stad Brussel): central municipality of the 19 in the Brussels-Capital Region, 188,737 inhabitants on 33.80 km², 49-member council, mayor Philippe Close, enlarged by the 1921 annexation law.

City of Chelmsford

The City of Chelmsford, also known as the Borough of Chelmsford, is a local government district and city in Essex, England, granted city status in 2012.

City of Doncaster

City of Doncaster: South Yorkshire metropolitan borough awarded city status in 2022, governed by an elected mayor (Ros Jones since 2013) and cabinet, population 314,176, member of the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.

City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (Joburg, JHB): one of South Africa's eight category A metros in Gauteng, established 2000, governing 1,643 km² and 4.8 million people with a R97.1 billion 2026/27 budget and a qualified 2023/24 audit.

City of London

The City of London, known as the Square Mile, is a historic local authority area at the heart of Greater London, governed by the City of London Corporation.

City of Melbourne

City of Melbourne: inner local government area of Victoria, Australia, containing the CBD. Incorporated 1842, declared a city 1847; unsubdivided council with 9 councillors, lord mayor Nick Reece; $116 billion economy on 38 square kilometres.

City of Rockdale

The City of Rockdale was a local government area on Botany Bay's western shore in Sydney, Australia, formed in 1871 and merged into Bayside Council in 2016.