770 articles
City of Salford
City of Salford: metropolitan district in Greater Manchester (E08000006), created 1 April 1974 from the county borough and neighboring boroughs. 20 wards, 60 councillors, directly elected City Mayor Paul Dennett; 269,923 residents in 2021.
City of Sheffield
City of Sheffield: metropolitan district in South Yorkshire (ONS E08000039), England's fourth largest city, governed by Sheffield City Council with 28 wards and 84 councillors under a committee system since 2022.
City of Sydney
City of Sydney: the local government area and council covering Sydney's CBD and inner suburbs, incorporated 1842, 26.15 sq km, 33 suburbs, about 237,000 residents, Lord Mayor Clover Moore, distinct from Greater Sydney.
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality: Category A metro in Gauteng governing Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. Established 2000; about 6,368 km², 2.9–3.6 million residents, seven regions, 105 wards; contributes 26.8% of Gauteng GDP.
Ciudad Real (district)
Ciudad Real (district): the término municipal of Ciudad Real, capital of its namesake province in Castile-La Mancha, Spain; borders ten municipalities including Miguelturra and Poblete; boundaries georeferenced by the IGN.
Civil parish
Civil parish: smallest administrative area in England, also called town or community council; Welsh equivalent is the community. About 10,480 exist; roughly 40% of England's population is served by one.
Civil township
Civil township: a US local government unit below the county, active in 20 Northeast and Midwest states serving over 50 million people; distinct from the 36-square-mile survey township of the 1785 Land Ordinance.
Clark County, Nevada
Clark County, Nevada: county containing Las Vegas, its county seat. Created 1909 from Lincoln County, named for Senator William Andrews Clark. Nevada's most populous county, 2.4 million residents, gaming and tourism economy.
Clayton County, Georgia
Clayton County, Georgia, an Atlanta-metro county created in 1858 and named for Judge Augustin S. Clayton; county seat Jonesboro, population 297,595 (2020), home to most of Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan
Clinton Township is a charter township in Macomb County, Michigan, population 100,513 (2020). First settled as Moravian New Gnadenhutten in 1782, named in 1837 for the Clinton River and DeWitt Clinton.
Cobb County, Georgia
Cobb County, Georgia: Atlanta-metro county, seat Marietta, created 1832 from Cherokee lands and named for Thomas Willis Cobb. Third most populous Georgia county (793,345 est. 2025); commission-county manager government; home of Truist Park and Kennesaw State University.
Coconino County, Arizona
Coconino County, Arizona: county in northern Arizona, seat Flagstaff, created 1891 from Yavapai County. Largest Arizona county at 18,616 sq mi, 145,101 people (2020), home to the Grand Canyon and San Francisco Peaks.
Collier County, Florida
Collier County, Florida: southwest Gulf Coast county created May 8, 1923 as Florida's 62nd county, named for Barron Gift Collier who funded the Tamiami Trail; seat at East Naples, 2020 population 375,752, home to much of Everglades National Park.
Collin County, Texas
Collin County, Texas: North Texas county with seat at McKinney, formed in 1846 from Peters Colony. Population 1,064,465 (2020), among the fastest-growing US counties; AAA bond rating since 2000.
Comilla District (কুমিল্লা জেলা)
Cumilla District (কুমিল্লা জেলা), formerly Comilla, is a Chattogram Division district of Bangladesh: 3,087.33 sq km, 6.2 million people (2022), 17 upazilas, renamed from Tripura District in 1960, home to the Mainamati Shalban Vihara ruins.
Commune of Šibenik
The Commune of Šibenik was the medieval self-governing city-state of Šibenik, a Croatian town on the Adriatic, first recorded in 1066 and under Venice from 1412.
Communes of France
Communes of France: the lowest tier of French local government, created by the law of 14 December 1789 on former parishes. 34,875 exist as of 2025, each with an elected council and mayor; Paris, Lyon and Marseille have special PLM status.
Comune
Comune (plural comuni): the basic Italian municipality, an autonomous local government under Article 114 of the Constitution and decree 267/2000, with a sindaco, giunta, and council; 7,896 existed at end-2024, heirs of the medieval city communes.
Contra Costa County, California
Contra Costa County, California: an original 27-county East Bay county created February 18, 1850, named Spanish for 'opposite coast,' county seat Martinez, about 1.17 million residents, ninth most populous, bounded by San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun bays.
Cook County, Illinois
Cook County, Illinois: northeastern Illinois county created January 15, 1831, named for Daniel P. Cook, seat Chicago, home rule county of 5.2 million people, 134 municipalities, and a $10.12 billion FY2026 budget.
Cornwall
Cornwall: county and unitary authority in south west England under Cornwall Council since 1 April 2009; population 584,782 (2025); first rural 2015 devolution deal, Level 2 deal 2023, single Foundation Strategic Authority agreed 2026.
Counties of Iran
Counties of Iran, called shahrestan (شهرستان), are the second-level administrative divisions under provinces (ostan), each run by a farmandar. Counts grew from 49 in 1937 to 474 today.
Counties of Ireland
Counties of Ireland: the island's 32 traditional counties, 26 in the Republic and 6 in Northern Ireland, created as elected local government by the 1898 Act and now mainly cultural and statistical units.
Counties of the United Kingdom
Counties of the United Kingdom: administrative county areas, chiefly England's two-tier county councils (21 shire counties, 164 districts) alongside 132 unitary authorities; Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland use unitary councils since 1996 and 1973.
County Antrim
County Antrim (Contae Aontroma) is the most populous of Northern Ireland's six historic counties, with a 2021 population of 651,321; it includes Belfast, the Giant's Causeway, and the Glens of Antrim.
County Armagh
County Armagh (Contae Ard Mhacha) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, an inland Ulster county of about 512 sq miles shired in 1586, with county town Armagh city and county top Slieve Gullion.
County Cavan
County Cavan (Contae an Chabháin) is an inland Ulster county in Ireland, formed in 1584 from the O'Reilly lordship of East Breifne. Population 81,704 (Census 2022, +7%); governed by Cavan County Council with 18 councillors in three electoral areas.
County Clare
County Clare (An Clár) is a county in Munster, Ireland, shired in 1570 from the Kingdom of Thomond; county town Ennis, population 127,938 (2022), named after Clarecastle, not the de Clare family.
County Cork
County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is Ireland's largest county, in Munster in the southwest, with Cork city as county town. 584,156 people at Census 2022; over 1,000 km of coastline; instituted by King John; 2019 boundary change expanded the city.
County Donegal
County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county in Ulster in north-west Ireland; its population was 167,084 in the 2022 census, a 5 percent increase on 2016.