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Cheboksary
Cheboksary (Чебоксары; Chuvash Shupashkar), capital of the Chuvash Republic on the Volga; 507,183 residents in 2024, first chronicled 1469, Russian fortress 1555, industrial and transport hub.
Chefchaouen (شفشاون)
Chefchaouen (شفشاون), the Blue City of Morocco's Rif Mountains, founded 1471 by Moulay Ali Ben Rachid; 46,168 residents (2024). Famous for blue-washed medina walls whose origin is debated: Jewish, thermal, and tourism theories, none definitive.
Chelmsford
Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England, granted city status in 2012. Known for its 1199 market charter, Roman Caesaromagus origins, Marconi radio industry, and new Beaulieu Park station (2025).
Cheltenham
Cheltenham, often called Cheltenham Spa, is a town and borough in Gloucestershire, England, at the foot of the Cotswolds, known for its Regency architecture and annual festivals.
Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania
Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: a 9.06-square-mile inner-ring suburb on Philadelphia's northwest border, settled 1682 by Quakers from Cheltenham, England; 37,452 residents (2020), home to La Mott, Camp William Penn, and two National Register historic districts.
Chelyabinsk (Челябинск)
Chelyabinsk (Челябинск) is a major industrial city in Russia and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the South Urals on the border of Europe and Asia, with about 1.2 million residents.
Chemnitz
Chemnitz, Saxony's third-largest city, called Karl-Marx-Stadt 1953–1990, first documented 1143, a major German machine-tool and textile center, the 'Saxon Manchester', and European Capital of Culture 2025.
Chengde (承德)
Chengde (承德), historically Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Hebei, China, home to the Qing Mountain Resort (避暑山庄) and 12 Outlying Temples, a 1994 UNESCO World Heritage Site and the dynasty's second political center.
Chengdu
Chengdu (成都), capital of Sichuan Province in southwestern China, is a new first-tier city of about 21 million people, known for the ancient Shu kingdom, the 2,250-year-old Dujiangyan irrigation system, panda conservation, teahouse culture, and a service-heavy economy.
Chengtangcun
Chengtangcun (城塘村) is an alternate name for Tengzhou, a county-level city under Zaozhuang in Shandong, China, at 35.08 N, 117.19 E, with about 1.55 million residents and a 2025 GDP of 110 billion yuan; a smaller namesake village lies in Zhejiang.
Chennai (சென்னை)
Chennai (சென்னை), formerly Madras, capital of Tamil Nadu on the Coromandel Coast; home to India's oldest municipal corporation (1688), about 426 sq km, 7.1 million people, facing flooding, heat, and water scarcity.
Chennai district
Chennai district (சென்னை மாவட்டம்), formerly Madras district, is the Tamil Nadu district containing the state capital on the Coromandel Coast: 426 sq km, 3 revenue divisions, 16 taluks, and the 1688-founded Greater Chennai Corporation with 15 zones and 200 wards.
Chenzhou
Chenzhou (郴州) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Hunan, China, called Hunan's South Gate; 19,400 km2, 4.56 million people (2025), GDP 350.2 billion CNY, and China-leading tungsten, bismuth, and molybdenum reserves.
Cheonan
Cheonan (천안시) is a city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, a rural-urban complex city of two districts, Dongnam-gu and Seobuk-gu, with about 700,000 residents, OECD metropolitan FUA status, and major population and regeneration programs.
Cheongju-si (city)
Cheongju (청주시; 淸州市) is the capital city of North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, formed as a unified city in 2014. It covers 941 km², reached 890,085 residents in August 2026, and printed the Jikji with movable metal type in 1377.
Cherepovets
Cherepovets (Череповец) is an industrial city in Vologda Oblast, Russia, on the Sheksna River; town status 1777, home of Severstal's CherMK steel combine and Apatit fertilizers, largest city of the oblast.
Cherkasy
Cherkasy (Черкаси), city in central Ukraine, administrative center of Cherkasy Oblast on the right bank of the Dnipro; about 265,000 residents, industrial economy, founded in the 13th century, oblast center since 1954.
Chernihiv (Чернігів)
Chernihiv (Чернігів), also known as Chernigov, is a city in northern Ukraine and the capital of Chernihiv oblast, about 140 km north of Kyiv on the Desna River.
Chernivtsi (Чернівці)
Chernivtsi (Чернівці, Czernowitz, Cernăuţi) is a city of about 264,000 in southwestern Ukraine on the Prut River, capital of Bukovina under Habsburg, Romanian, and Soviet rule, first mentioned in 1408 and home to the UNESCO-listed Metropolitan Residence.
Cherrapunji
Cherrapunji (Sohra), Meghalaya, India: hill town at 1,313 m famed for extreme monsoon rainfall; holds the WMO 12-month world record of 26.47 m (1860-61) and single-year and single-month records, though Mawsynram now has the higher annual average.
Chertsey
Chertsey is a Surrey town on the south bank of the Thames, founded around Chertsey Abbey (666 AD), a Domesday Book market town, now notable for repeated Thames flooding and the River Thames Scheme relief channel ending at the town.
Chesapeake, Virginia
Chesapeake, Virginia: independent city in South Hampton Roads formed January 1, 1963 from Norfolk County and South Norfolk; Virginia's second-largest city (255,332 in 2025), 338 sq mi of land, home to much of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Chester
Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, north-west England, on the River Dee near the Welsh border, founded by the Romans as the fortress of Deva.
Chester, Pennsylvania
Chester, Pennsylvania: Delaware County's only city, founded 1644 as Swedish Upland, renamed by Penn in 1682; former shipbuilding hub, population 32,605 (2020), in Act 47 fiscal emergency with a 2026 revitalization package.
Chesterfield, England
Chesterfield, Derbyshire: largest market town in Derbyshire, England, founded as a Roman fort around 70 AD, known for the Crooked Spire, coal and railway heritage under George Stephenson, and reorganisation into a unitary council from 2028.
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyoming: capital and largest city of Wyoming, founded 1867 as a Union Pacific Railroad town, seat of Laramie County, home of Cheyenne Frontier Days since 1897 and a growing data center hub.
Chhatarpur (छतरपुर)
Chhatarpur (छतरपुर) is a city and district in Sagar Division, Madhya Pradesh, India, home to the UNESCO World Heritage Khajuraho temples; also a South Delhi neighborhood with a metro station and a 2026-approved elevated corridor.
Chhindwāra
Chhindwāra (छिंदवाड़ा), largest district of Madhya Pradesh by area (11,815 sq km), formed 1 November 1956; headquarters Chhindwara town; tribal-majority, agricultural district on the Satpura Range bordering Maharashtra.
Chí Linh
Chí Linh (Thành phố Chí Linh) was a city in northern Hải Dương province, Vietnam, a city from 2019; since 1 July 2025 its name survives as Phường Chí Linh ward of Hải Phòng, home of the Côn Sơn – Kiếp Bạc relic site.
Chía, Cundinamarca
Chía is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, on the Bogotá savanna just north of Bogotá, named for the Moon goddess of Muisca mythology, who had a temple there.