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Capital of Japan
Capital of Japan: Tokyo (東京, Eastern Capital), de facto capital since the Meiji era after the 1868–1869 move from Kyoto (imperial capital since 794); no statute explicitly names a capital; Tokyo Metropolis has 23 special wards and about 14.27 million people.
Capital of Sri Lanka
Capital of Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the administrative capital and seat of Parliament since 1982; Colombo remains the commercial capital and largest city.
Capitol Hill
Capitol Hill is the name of two major American neighborhoods: a historic district east of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and a hilltop neighborhood in Seattle.
Capua
Capua (ancient city, now Santa Maria Capua Vetere), chief city of Campania; Etruscan-founded, defected to Hannibal 216 BC, taken 211 BC; Spartacus's gladiator revolt began there; second-largest Roman amphitheater in Italy.
Caracas
Caracas (Santiago de León de Caracas), capital of Venezuela, founded 1567 by Diego de Losada in a Coast Range valley; primate city of about 2.94 million, shaped by the oil boom, ranchos, high violence, and the June 2026 earthquakes.
Carapicuíba
Carapicuíba, São Paulo, Brazil: a dense metropolitan municipality (386,984 people in 2022) founded as a 1580 Jesuit aldeia by Anchieta, emancipated in the 1960s, served by SABESP, with the preserved Aldeia listed by IPHAN in 1940.
Carbondale, Illinois
Carbondale, Illinois: Jackson County city founded 1852 on the Illinois Central Railroad, home of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU), population about 21,800, site of the 2017 and 2024 total solar eclipses and the SIMMS transit station.
Carcassonne
Carcassonne (Occitan: Carcassona) is a city in southern France, prefecture of the Aude department, best known for its medieval fortified Cité, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd), capital of Wales since 1955, city status 1905; largest Welsh city on the Taff, Ely and Rhymney rivers; once the world's biggest coal-exporting port, now a compact capital of about 321,000 people.
Carletonville
Carletonville is a gold mining town on the West Rand of Gauteng, South Africa, proclaimed in 1948 and named for Guy Carleton Jones; center of the deep-level Carletonville Goldfield near Mponeng and TauTona mines.
Carlisle
Carlisle is Cumbria's only city, England's historic border city founded as the Roman fort and town of Luguvalium in AD 72, refounded by William II in 1092 with castle, walls, and cathedral, now a Cumberland Council regeneration hub.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle, Pennsylvania: county seat of Cumberland County, founded 1751, home of Dickinson College (1783) and Carlisle Barracks (1757), seat of the U.S. Army War College since 1951 and site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918).
Carlsbad, California
Carlsbad, California: coastal city in northern San Diego County, 35 miles from San Diego, incorporated 1952, named after Karlsbad, Bohemia. Known for LEGOLAND, seven miles of beaches, surf and skate culture, and North America's largest desalination plant.
Carmarthen
Carmarthen (Welsh: Caerfyrddin) is a market town in Carmarthenshire, southwest Wales, on the River Tywi, often believed to be the oldest continuously occupied town in Wales.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Carmel-by-the-Sea is a one-square-mile city in Monterey County, California, incorporated 1916, known for its artists' colony, no traffic lights or chain stores, and recently adopted street numbers; population 3,220, median home value about $2 million.
Carmel, Indiana
Carmel is the sixth-largest city in Indiana, in Hamilton County just north of Indianapolis; founded in 1837 as Bethlehem, it is known for its roundabouts and arts districts.
Carmona, Spain
Carmona (Seville province, Andalusia) is a historic hilltop town of about 30,400 people, 30 km from Seville, with Roman gates, amphitheater, and the 1st-century BC Roman Necropolis, Spain's oldest site museum (1887).
Carnoustie
Carnoustie is a coastal town in Angus, Scotland, about ten miles east of Dundee, population 11,359. Founded 1797, grown by the 1838 railway and linen industry, famed for Carnoustie Golf Links, an eight-time host of The Open Championship.
Carpi (city)
Carpi, a town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, at 26 m elevation in the Po Valley; seat of the Pio signoria from the 14th century to the 1520s, later under the Este, with the Palazzo dei Pio and one of Italy's widest squares.
Carrara
Carrara, Tuscany, Italy: the marble city of the Apuan Riviera, quarried since Roman times, home of Michelangelo's favored white marble, the Civic Marble Museum, Colonnata lard, and Italy's leading worked-marble export district.
Carson City, Nevada
Carson City, Nevada: state capital since 1864, founded 1858 by Abraham Curry, named for Kit Carson; consolidated independent city of 157 square miles, population about 58,600.
Carson, California
Carson, California: a South Bay Los Angeles County city incorporated February 20, 1968, named for George Henry Carson of the Dominguez family's Rancho San Pedro; 95,558 residents in 2020, motto "Future Unlimited."
Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena de Indias: Caribbean port city in Bolívar, Colombia, founded 1533 by Pedro de Heredia; UNESCO World Heritage walled city and fortresses (1984), Colombia's largest port, major tourist destination facing sea-level rise and flooding.
Cartagena, Spain
Cartagena (Spain), Murcia-region Mediterranean port city founded as Qart-Hadast in 227 BC, Roman Carthago Nova; 222,559 inhabitants in 2026, a leading Spanish industrial port moving 36 million tonnes in 2024, Roman theatre, Punic wall, naval heritage.
Cartago, Valle del Cauca
Cartago is a municipality in northern Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on the La Vieja and Cauca rivers, founded in 1540 by Jorge Robledo and moved in 1691.
Cartersville, Georgia
Cartersville, Georgia: county seat of Bartow County, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta on I-75, named for Farish Carter, incorporated 1850, population 23,187 (2020), council-manager government since 1917 with city-owned utilities.
Carthago Nova
Carthago Nova, modern Cartagena, Spain: Roman city founded as Punic Qart Hadasht by Hasdrubal the Fair in 228 BCE, taken by Scipio in 209 BCE, a silver-mining and port hub, later capital of Hispania Carthaginensis and Byzantine Spania.
Cary, North Carolina
Cary, North Carolina: a Wake County town southwest of Raleigh, incorporated 1871, population about 192,000, known for Research Triangle proximity, high incomes, greenways, and a 2026 town manager audit.
Casa Grande, Arizona
Casa Grande, Arizona: Pinal County city founded 1879 as the railroad stop Terminus, renamed 1880 for the nearby Hohokam Casa Grande Ruins. Junction of I-8 and I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson; population grew from 53,658 (2020) to an estimated 69,753 (2025), with Lucid Motors and other manufacturers as major employers.
Casablanca (الدار البيضاء)
Casablanca (Dār al-Bayḍā', "the white house") is Morocco's largest city and economic capital on the Atlantic coast: 4.2 million inhabitants, about a third of national GDP via Casablanca-Settat, founded as Anfa, rebuilt 1770, French protectorate port hub.