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Cerne Abbas
Cerne Abbas is a Dorset village built around a Benedictine abbey founded in 987 AD, famous for the 180-foot Cerne Abbas Giant, a late Saxon chalk hill figure first recorded in 1694 and dated 700–1100 AD by OSL analysis.
Cerro Gordo Mines
Cerro Gordo Mines, also called the Cerro Gordo mining district, were silver-lead and zinc mines in California's Inyo Mountains, worked from 1865 to the 1940s, once the leading US source of lead and silver, tied to Los Angeles's growth, now a restored ghost town.
Chahar Tut
Chahar Tut (چهار توت) is the name of several Afghan settlements, chiefly a locality in Khan Abad District, Kunduz Province (36.649°N, 69.104°E, 470 m), plus places in Nangarhar, Faryab, and Takhar provinces.
Chakwama
Chakwama: name of two Nigerian places, chiefly a large locality in Buji, Jigawa State (about 200,000 residents, 11.56N 9.66E, 400 m elevation), and a rural populated place in Kagarko, Kaduna State.
Chancy
Chancy is a municipality at the westernmost point of Switzerland, in the canton of Geneva's Champagne region on the Rhône. Known for its Roman villa and castrum at Montagny, Gallo-Roman tile kilns, the 1424 Rhône crossing, and the Chancy-Pougny hydroelectric plant.
Changam-ch’on
Changam-ch’on (장암촌), also listed as Songjin, is a populated place in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea, at 40.61 N, 128.78 E, elevation 252 m, GeoNames population 207,299.
Chappaqua, New York
Chappaqua is an unincorporated hamlet and CDP in the town of New Castle, Westchester County, New York, about 30 miles north of Manhattan; a Quaker-founded railroad suburb of 2,628 people (2020) and home of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Châteauneuf-du-Pape: Vaucluse village and French wine appellation, the first AOC (1936), 3,150 ha over five communes near Avignon, 13 grape varieties, galets roulés terroir, papal history under Jean XXII.
Cheddar, Somerset
Cheddar is a large Somerset village at the mouth of Cheddar Gorge, England's largest gorge, on the Mendip Hills. Known for Cheddar cheese, Saxon royal palace and witan meetings of 941, 956, 968, Domesday entry, and Gough's Cave.
Chengji Gucheng Yizhi
成纪故城遗址 (Chengji Gucheng Yizhi), the Western Han Chengji county-seat city site in Jingning County, Pingliang, Gansu; 490 m of rammed-earth wall survives; seventh-batch National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit (2013).
Chernobyl
Chernobyl (Chornobyl): the 1986 Reactor No. 4 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, the worst nuclear disaster in history, causing mass evacuation, a 30-km exclusion zone, the Shelter and New Safe Confinement, and the 2022 Russian occupation.
Cherokee, North Carolina
Cherokee, North Carolina: principal town of the Qualla Boundary, trust land of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; 1876 survey, Harrah's casino economy, cannabis legalization, and cultural tourism hub.
Chesfield
Chesfield (Chivesfield, Chisfield) is a hamlet in Graveley parish, North Hertfordshire, 2 miles NNE of Stevenage, a former parish with ruined St Etheldreda church (dismantled 1750), Chesfield Park country house, and a manor farm.
Chettinad (செட்டிநாடு)
Chettinad (செட்டிநாடு), also called the Chettinad village clusters, is a Tamil Nadu region of 73 villages and 2 towns over 1,550 km², with 10,000-15,000 mansions built 1850s-1940s by the Nattukottai Chettiar banking community, on India's UNESCO Tentative List since 2014.
Chevigny
Chevigny names several French villages, mostly in Burgundy: a Yonne hamlet with a Roman quarry that supplied the colossal Apollo of Entrains, the Château de Chevigny at Millery, communes in the Jura and Côte-d'Or, and an Alberta coal mine.
Chobham
Chobham is a village and civil parish in Surrey Heath, Surrey, England, an Anglo-Saxon settlement (Ceabba's hām) granted to Chertsey Abbey in the 670s, with a Grade I St Lawrence church, Green Belt setting, Chobham Common NNR, and a 2026 neighbourhood plan.
Chornobyl exclusion zone abandoned villages
The Chornobyl exclusion zone abandoned villages are 92 evacuated rural settlements in northern Ukraine, emptied and struck from official records after the 1986 nuclear accident, with some buried and a few hundred self-settlers returning illegally.
Ciampea
Ciampea (formerly Tjampea) is a district in western Bogor Regency, West Java, Indonesia: 13 villages, seat Bojongrangkas, about 163,000-168,000 people, VOC fort from 1710, farmland conversion, and landslide road repairs.
Cikupa
Cikupa (Kecamatan Cikupa) is a district in Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia, west of Jakarta, an industrial and urbanizing area home to the Cikupa Mas Industrial Estate and part of the Cikupa-Pasar Kemis urban region.
Cileungsir
Cileungsir: name of several places in western Java, Indonesia, chiefly a village in Rancah, Ciamis, West Java (IDM status Mandiri 2024), plus places in Banten and Bogor Regency and a Bogor bridge.
Civita di Bagnoregio
Civita di Bagnoregio, 'la città che muore', an Etruscan-origin hilltop village in Lazio on an eroding volcanic tuff spur over clay calanchi; ~13 residents, ~1 million visitors (2019), €5 entry fee, UNESCO candidacy.
Clachan
A clachan is a small, unplanned cluster of houses in Highland Scotland and Ireland, tied to joint farming systems like runrig and rundale, and usually lacking a church or shop.
Claxby
Claxby is a village and civil parish in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, with a possible Roman villa site beside its parish church.
Climax Springs, Missouri
Climax Springs, Missouri, also called Climax, is a small Camden County community founded as an 1880s spa around a spring of about 50,000 gallons daily discharge; population 118, ZIP 65324, home of the 1889-1890 Climax Advocate newspaper.
Clovelly
Clovelly is a privately owned fishing village on the north Devon coast, west of Bideford, famed for its car-free cobbled street descending 400 feet to the harbour, donkeys, sledges, and single-family ownership by the Hamlyn family since 1738.
Coalbrookdale
Coalbrookdale, Shropshire village in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site where Abraham Darby I first smelted iron with coke in 1709, launching the 18th century iron revolution; Old Furnace, Darby dynasty, and Iron Bridge context.
Coalwood, West Virginia
Coalwood is an unincorporated former coal company town in McDowell County, West Virginia, built around 1902 and known as the boyhood home of Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys.
Cobasna
Cobasna (Kolbasna) is a village in Transnistria, Moldova, near the Ukrainian border, hosting the largest Soviet-era ammunition depot in Eastern Europe: about 14,000 tonnes remain, guarded by Russian troops.
Cocurès
Cocurès is a village in Lozère, southern France, on the right bank of the Tarn about two kilometers east of Florac, merged into Bédouès-Cocurès in 2016.
Coloma, California
Coloma, California: Sierra foothill town in El Dorado County on the South Fork American River, also called Cullumah by the Nisenan. Site of James Marshall's January 24, 1848 gold discovery at Sutter's Mill, now mostly within Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.