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Chitato
Chitato is a municipality in Lunda Norte Province, Angola, near Dundo, in diamond country; communes Luachimo and Dundo-Chitato, population estimates 195,136 to 277,884, economy of artisanal diamond mining and subsistence agriculture.
Chitradurga
Chitradurga (Kannada: ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ), also Chitrakaladurga, is a city and district in central Karnataka, 202 km northwest of Bengaluru, famed for its seven-rampart hill fort, Nayaka rulers, and the Upper Bhadra irrigation project.
Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh
Chitrakoot (चित्रकूट), a pilgrimage town and Nagar Panchayat in Satna district, Madhya Pradesh, on the Mandakini River; the sacred region spans MP and Uttar Pradesh, centered on Kamadgiri hill, Ram Ghat, and the Ramayana exile tradition.
Chittagong (চট্টগ্রাম)
Chittagong (চট্টগ্রাম), officially Chattogram, is Bangladesh's second-largest city and busiest Bay of Bengal seaport, handling 104.29 million tonnes of cargo and generating 40% of industrial output, 80% of trade, and 50% of government revenue.
Chittoor
Chittoor (చిత్తూరు), Andhra Pradesh city and district headquarters; formed 1 April 1911 from North Arcot and Kadapa territory; 189,332 people (2011); leading mango producer and pulp-processing center.
Chittorgarh (चित्तौड़गढ़)
Chittorgarh (चित्तौड़गढ़) is a city in southeastern Rajasthan, India, former Sisodia capital of Mewar on the Gambhiri and Berach rivers, dominated by the UNESCO-listed Chittorgarh Fort, a 700-acre hill fort sacked in 1303, 1533, and 1568.
Chitungwiza
Chitungwiza, also called Chi-town, is Zimbabwe's third-largest urban settlement (356,000 in 2012), a dormitory municipality about 25 km south of Harare, founded under colonial segregation policy in 1978 and dependent on Harare for water and jobs.
Chiyoda, Tokyo
Chiyoda (Chiyoda-ku) is the smallest of Tokyo's 23 special wards and the political heart of Japan, containing the Imperial Palace on the former Edo Castle site, the National Diet, and the Marunouchi, Otemachi, and Akihabara districts.
Chizhou
Chizhou (池州) is a prefecture-level city in southwest Anhui, China, on the south bank of the Yangtze; founded 621 AD, a municipality since 2000, home to Jiuhua Mountain, 8,399 km², 1.324 million residents.
Chlef
Chlef (الشلف), Algeria, formerly Castellum Tingitanum, Orléansville, and El Asnam, is the capital of Chlef Province, 200 km from Algiers, rebuilt after the 1954 and 1980 earthquakes.
Chōfu
Chōfu (調布市) is a city of over 239,000 in Tokyo's Tama area, 15 km from Shinjuku, formed in 1955 by merging Chōfu and Kamishiro towns; distinct from Den-en-chōfu in Ōta ward.
Cholula (city)
Cholula (Cholollan), Puebla, Mexico: ancient Mesoamerican city founded around 500 BC, sanctuary of Quetzalcoatl, home of the Great Pyramid, the largest Pre-Columbian structure in the Americas, site of Cortés's 1519 massacre.
Chongjin
Chongjin (청진시, 淸津市) is a port and heavy-industry city on North Korea's northeast coast, home to the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, a major rail hub, and the Chongjin Shipyard.
Chongming
Chongming (崇明区) is Shanghai's northernmost district of three Yangtze estuary islands, 1,413 km²; Chongming Island is the world's largest estuarine alluvial island and China's third largest island, developed since 2001 as a world-class eco-island.
Chongwen Qu
Chongwen Qu (崇文区) was a former district of southeast central Beijing, 16.46 square kilometers with seven subdistricts, named in 1952 after Chongwenmen gate and merged into Dongcheng District in June 2010.
Chongzuo
Chongzuo (崇左, Zhuang Cungzcoj) is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangxi, China, on the Vietnamese border. Established 2003, it is China's sugar capital, has China's largest manganese reserves, the Huashan rock art World Heritage site, and a majority Zhuang population.
Christchurch
Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is New Zealand's largest South Island city, founded in 1850 as a planned Anglican settlement and the country's first city by Royal Charter in 1856; population 419,200 (June 2025), rebuilt after the 2010–2011 earthquakes.
Chucuito
Chucuito is a town in the Puno Province of southern Peru, on the western shore of Lake Titicaca about 18 km south of Puno, once the capital of the Aymara Lupaca kingdom.
Chula Vista, California
Chula Vista, California: second-largest city in San Diego County (275,487 in 2020), on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border. Incorporated 1911; once the world's largest lemon-growing center; transformed by Rohr Aircraft in World War II.
Chuncheon
Chuncheon (춘천시) is the capital city of Gangwon Province, South Korea, a basin city on the Bukhan and Soyang rivers with about 290,810 residents (August 2025), pursuing a 300,000-population HUB city vision and major station-area redevelopment.
Chungju
Chungju (충주) is a city in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, on the Namhan River; population 213,090 (Dec 2025), home to the Chungju Dam, Goguryeo Stele, Suanbo hot springs, and Chungbuk Innovation City.
Chunian
Chunian (چونیاں) is a city and tehsil in Kasur District, Punjab, Pakistan, lying south of Lahore and known for its sugar mills; its tehsil had 979,746 residents in 2023.
Chur
Chur (Cuera, Coira, Coire) is the capital of Graubünden and Switzerland's oldest city, settled for 13,000 years, founded as Roman Curia Rhaetorum in 15 BC, seat of the diocese documented since 451, and hub of the Rhaetian Railway.
Churchill, Manitoba
Churchill, Manitoba, a town of about 900 on Hudson Bay, is the Polar Bear Capital of the World, with summer beluga viewing, aurora tourism, the 1929 Hudson Bay Railway, and Canada's only Arctic deep-water port.
Chuxiong
Chuxiong (楚雄市) is a county-level city in central Yunnan, China, and the seat of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, on the main road and rail corridor between Kunming and Dali.
Cibinong
Cibinong is a district in Bogor Regency, West Java, and the regency capital under PP No. 6/1982, government seat since 1990; known for Lapas Cibinong prison and the 2026 luxury-facility demolition.
Cicero, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois: a densely populated inner-ring town (2020 population 85,268) just west of Chicago, once the state's second largest manufacturing center and Al Capone's base, now about 87.5 percent Hispanic.
Ciclova Română
Ciclova Română (Csiklófalu, Tschiklowa) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, Banat, Romania, in the Ciclova valley of the Aninei Mountains, with Roman and medieval iron mining, Daco-Roman settlements, a 1437 mining letter, and villages Ilidia and Socolari.
Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos (La Perla del Sur) is a Cuban port city founded April 22, 1819 by French settlers from Bordeaux and Louisiana under Spanish rule, with a 25-block Spanish Enlightenment grid plan; its neoclassical historic center became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Cilegon
Cilegon (Kota Cilegon) is an industrial city in Banten, Indonesia, at Java's northwestern tip near the Merak ferry. Known as the steel city for Krakatau Steel, it faces industrial heat island and air pollution problems.