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Changde
Changde (常德) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hunan, China, on the Yuan and Li rivers; founded as Zhang Ruo's city around 277 BC, named Changde in 1117, with 5.107 million residents and Taohuayuan as its leading scenic area.
Changhua (city)
Changhua (彰化市), county seat of Changhua County in central Taiwan, founded 1723 as Banxian under the Qing; first brick city wall in Taiwan (1815), home of the sole surviving fan-shaped railway roundhouse (1922), population about 218,000.
Changji
Changji (昌吉市) is a county-level city in Xinjiang, seat of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, 35 km west of Urumqi. Area 8,215 km², population about 600,000; county founded 1773, city status 1983; name from Turkic 'Yangji' meaning 'new'.
Changsha (长沙)
Changsha (长沙), Star City, capital of Hunan Province, China; a megacity of 10.7 million on the Xiangjiang River with 3,000 years of unchanged site, GDP 1,573.782 billion CNY (2025), and a national rail hub.
Changshu
Changshu (常熟), a county-level city under Suzhou, Jiangsu, on the Yangtze; named in 540 AD for reliably fertile harvests, a 1986 National Historical and Cultural City, 2025 GDP 321.07 billion yuan.
Changwon
Changwon (창원), capital of South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea; a planned machinery-industry city around the 1974 Changwon National Industrial Complex, merged with Masan and Jinhae in 2010, population about 1.02 million across five districts.
Changyi
Changyi (昌邑市) is a county-level city of Weifang, Shandong, on Laizhou Bay; anciently Duchang, named Changyi in 962, a city since 1994; silk, salt-chemical, and new-energy industries; 2025 GDP 64.06 billion yuan.
Changzheng
Changzheng (长征镇) is a town in southwest Putuo District, Shanghai, 7.67 km², named in 1958 for the Red Army Long March; about 150,000 residents, 29 residents' committees; other Changzheng towns exist in Hainan and Guizhou.
Changzhou
Changzhou (常州, Longcheng "Dragon City") is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu at the center of the Yangtze River Delta, with 5.42 million residents, a 2025 GDP of 1,115.87 billion yuan, and a designated "China's New Energy Capital" manufacturing base.
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Chanhassen is a city of about 26,000 residents in the southwestern Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, known for its lakes, Paisley Park, and the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres.
Chania
Chania (Χανιά), second city of Crete after Heraklion, built on ancient Minoan Kydonia; Venetian harbor and old town, Ottoman rule 1645–1898, 111,375 municipal residents, Daskalogiannis airport with 4.15 million 2025 passengers.
Channel-Port aux Basques
Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland ferry gateway town on the Cabot Strait; created by the 1898 Newfoundland Railway, merged in 1945, Marine Atlantic's principal terminal to North Sydney.
Chanteau
Chanteau is a commune in Loiret, France, 10 km north of Orléans on the edge of the Orléans forest. Named from Celtic Cantogil, founded around Robert II's 1029 priory, it holds the 1895 mausoleum of the Turco of 1870.
Chaoyang, Liaoning
Chaoyang (朝阳市), formerly Longcheng, is a prefecture-level city in northwest Liaoning with 19,699 km², 2 districts, 3 counties, 2 county-level cities, the Three Yan ancient capital, Niuheliang Hongshan site, and a Beijing–Shenyang high-speed rail corridor.
Chaozhou, Guangdong
Chaozhou (潮州市), prefecture-level city at Guangdong's easternmost tip on the South China Sea; historic Chaoshan cultural center named in 591, split from Shantou in 1991; 3,693 km², ~2.73 million registered people, 2024 GDP 140.283 billion yuan, China Porcelain Capital.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Orange County town (partly Durham County), incorporated 1819, population about 63,600, built around the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first US public university, chartered 1789, opened 1795.
Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont is a Walloon municipality in Hainaut, arrondissement of Charleroi, with villages Godarville and Piéton; about 15,033 residents in 2026, former coal town with 1222 charter and Herlaimont priory.
Chāpra, Bihar
Chhapra (छपरा), also Chapra, is a city in Bihar, India, headquarters of Saran district and Saran Division near the Ghaghra-Ganga confluence; 2011 population 212,955, a Bhojpuri trade center with a Dutch colonial cemetery and the Chirand archaeological site nearby.
Charleroi
Charleroi, largest city in Wallonia, Belgium (206,900 residents, 2026), on the Sambre river; a former coal, steel, and glass center, site of the 1956 Bois du Cazier mining disaster (262 dead, UNESCO-listed), with major photography and fine-arts museums.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is a port city in coastal South Carolina, founded in 1670 as Charles Town and renamed in 1783, where the Civil War's first shots were fired.
Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia: state capital and largest city, on the Kanawha River at the Elk River mouth, seat of Kanawha County. Capital since 1870 (except 1875-1885); population 48,864 in 2020.
Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie is the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands on St. Thomas, founded by Denmark in 1672 as Taphus, a free-port trading hub from 1764, sold to the United States for $25 million in 1917, now a cruise tourism center.
Charlotte metropolitan area
The Charlotte metropolitan area (Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC MSA) is an eight-county North Carolina and one-county South Carolina metro anchored by Charlotte, with about 2.8 million residents and among the fastest numeric population growth of any U.S. metro.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina (Queen City), largest city in North Carolina and 14th largest in the U.S. with 964,784 residents in 2025; Piedmont commercial hub founded 1768, named for Queen Charlotte, with council-manager government since 1929.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia: independent city and Albemarle County seat founded 1762, named for Queen Charlotte, home of the University of Virginia (1819), population 46,553 in 2020.
Charlottetown
Charlottetown, capital and largest city of Prince Edward Island, Canada; founded 1764 by Samuel Holland and named for Queen Charlotte. Site of the September 1864 Charlottetown Conference and legally declared the birthplace of Canadian Confederation.
Charters Towers
Charters Towers is a north Queensland city founded after the 1871 gold discovery by Mosman, Clarke, Fraser, and Jupiter Mosman. Once Queensland's second largest city, nicknamed "The World", it produced over 6.6 million ounces of gold by 1920.
Chartres
Chartres, prefecture of Eure-et-Loir, France, also known as Autricum, capital of the Carnutes; cathedral city with 38,324 inhabitants (2023), UNESCO-listed Notre-Dame cathedral, one hour from Paris.
Chatham, Kent
Chatham, Kent: one of the five Medway towns, home of the Royal Dockyard founded in 1567, builder of HMS Victory and 57 submarines, closed 1984, now the Historic Dockyard and a regeneration focus.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga, Tennessee: the state's fourth-largest city on the Tennessee River, founded as Ross's Landing, incorporated 1839, a Civil War rail hub, TVA and cleanup-era industrial city, and EPB gigabit broadband pioneer.