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Casalbore

Casalbore is a hilltop town of about 1,800 people in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy, in the Miscano valley, known for its Norman Tower and the Italic temple of Macchia Porcara dedicated to Mefite.

Cascais

Cascais is a coastal municipality in Portugal's Lisbon District on the Portuguese Riviera, west of the Tagus estuary. Town charter 1364 under Pedro I; 97.4 km², 214,158 residents (2021), four parishes, resort era from 1870.

Cascavel, Paraná

Cascavel, Paraná: major municipality in western Paraná, Brazil (IBGE code 4104808), capital of the Oeste Paranaense; 348,051 people (2022 census), created 1951 from Foz do Iguaçu, agribusiness economy, Show Rural Coopavel host.

Caserta

Caserta, city in Campania, Italy, capital of the Province of Caserta, about 60,000 inhabitants; grew around the 18th-century Royal Palace of Charles of Bourbon, designed by Luigi Vanvitelli, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.

Casino, New South Wales

Casino is a town on the Richmond River in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, known as the Beef Capital for its meat processing industry.

Căşla

Căşla is an ancient place recorded in the Barrington Atlas at map 22 F3 and catalogued in the Pleiades gazetteer under the fort, tower place type; record authored by A.G. Poulter, last modified 2012.

Casoria

Casoria, comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy; about 73,257 residents (2026) on 12.10 km²; former casale of Naples, dense Neapolitan suburb with declining population.

Casper, Wyoming

Casper, Wyoming: second-largest Wyoming city, seat of Natrona County on the North Platte River, founded 1888-1889 as a railroad town and known as the Oil Capital of the Rockies; population about 59,000 with an energy-based economy.

Cassino

Cassino (formerly San Germano) is a town of about 35,000 in Frosinone, Lazio, at the foot of Montecassino Abbey, razed in the 1944 battles, home to Roman ruins, the Casinum archaeological park, and a Stellantis car plant.

Castanhal

Castanhal (PA) is a Pará municipality, IBGE code 1502400, 68 km from Belém on BR-316. Known as Cidade Modelo, founded as a vila in 1899 along the Belém-Bragança railway, emancipated 28 January 1932; 192,256 residents (2022 census), commerce-led regional hub.

Castel Gandolfo

Castel Gandolfo, town in the Alban Hills about 25 km from Rome, site of the popes' summer residence since Urban VIII in 1626; 55-hectare extraterritorial estate with Apostolic Palace, gardens, and Vatican Observatory, revived by Leo XIV in 2025.

Castellon (city)

Castellón de la Plana (Castellón/Castelló), Mediterranean capital of Castellón province, Spain, at the 40th parallel and 0° meridian; founded on the plain in 1252, about 183,700 inhabitants, ceramics-focused port.

Castelnau-Montratier

Castelnau-Montratier, also Castelnau-des-Vaux, a hilltop bastide commune in the Lot, Occitanie, France (INSEE 46063). Founded by Ratier de Castelnau after destruction by Simon de Montfort; charter of 1291; 1,840 inhabitants (2023); arcaded place, château, domed Saint-Martin church, windmills.

Castle Cary

Castle Cary is a small market town in south Somerset, England, recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 and known for its honey-colored Ham stone buildings.

Castle Rock, Colorado

Castle Rock, Colorado: Douglas County seat between Denver and Colorado Springs, founded 1874 on rhyolite quarrying and the Denver & Rio Grande railway; about 83,000 residents, 65% groundwater supply, and a 2065 goal of 100% renewable water.

Castres

Castres (Tarn, Occitanie), INSEE 81065, chef-lieu of its arrondissement on the Agout river; 42,505 inhabitants in 2023, seat of the Castres-Mazamet agglomeration, historic abbey town with Jean Jaurès and Goya museums.

Castrovirreyna

Castrovirreyna, also written Castrovirreina, is a town and historic silver-mining district in the Andes of Huancavelica, south-central Peru, founded by the viceroy García Hurtado de Mendoza in 1591.

Catania

Catania, eastern Sicily's largest city at the foot of Mount Etna, was destroyed by the 1693 earthquake and rebuilt on a geometric Baroque plan; its center is part of the UNESCO Val di Noto site.

Catanzaro

Catanzaro, capital of the province of Catanzaro and of Calabria, Italy; hill town 10 km from the Ionian coast, 82,708 residents (2026), historic silk trade, 1783 earthquake zone.

Catterick Garrison

Catterick Garrison, known as Catterick Camp until 1973, is a British Army garrison and town in North Yorkshire, England, south of Richmond, with a population over 15,000.

Cavan

Cavan (Cabhán, "hollow") is the county town of County Cavan, Ireland; a Gaelic O'Reilly foundation, Ireland's only medieval Gaelic town, incorporated first under the Ulster Plantation by James I's charter of 15 November 1610; population 11,741 in 2022.

Cavite City

Cavite City is a coastal peninsula city in Cavite province, Philippines, founded as a Spanish port in 1571 and later a center of the Philippine Revolution.

Cayenne

Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, France, founded 1643 by the Compagnie de Rouen; commune of 62,675 and urban unit of 126,910 (2023), hub of Félix-Eboué airport and near the Dégrad-des-Cannes port.

Cazenga

Cazenga is a municipality of Luanda Province, Angola, part of the Luanda metropolitan area with communes Hoji Ya Henda, Cazenga, and Tala Hady; the province's densest municipality, dominated by informal musseque settlements and the PRUCS renewal project.

Cebu City

Cebu City, Philippines: highly urbanized core of Metro Cebu, Central Visayas; site of the 1565 first Spanish settlement, Magellan's Cross, Santo Niño Basilica, and Colon Street; fastest-growing regional economy at 7.3%.

Cedar City, Utah

Cedar City, Utah: Iron County city founded November 11, 1851 as an iron works settlement, named for juniper 'cedars'; home of Southern Utah University and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival; 41,871 residents (2025 estimate).

Cedar Falls, Iowa

Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, northeastern Iowa, on the Cedar River and home to the University of Northern Iowa, with about 41,000 residents.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: second-largest Iowa city (137,710 in 2020) on the Cedar River in Linn County; platted 1841, home of Quaker Oats milling, devastated by the record June 2008 flood, and now building hyperscale data centers.

Ceilândia

Ceilândia, administrative region (RA IX) of Brazil's Federal District, a 1971 satellite city of Brasília born from the CEI removal campaign; most populous DF region with 287,023 residents (2022 census).

Celaya

Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico; founded 1 January 1571 as Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Zalaya by order of Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza; Bajío city of about 511,000, known for colonial history and cartel violence.