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Cognin
Cognin (Savoie) is a commune near Chambéry, France, first recorded in 1107 as ecclesia de Cohonnino, known for its excavated Gallo-Roman villa (1969–1976), Château de Martinel, and Robert Badinter's 1943–44 shelter.
Coimbatore (கோயம்புத்தூர்)
Coimbatore (கோயம்புத்தூர்), also called Kovai, is Tamil Nadu's second largest city on the Noyyal River, a textile and pump-manufacturing hub known as the Manchester of South India and a Smart Cities Mission city.
Coimbra
Coimbra, central Portuguese city on the Mondego, former royal capital and home of the University of Coimbra (founded 1290, in Coimbra since 1537), a UNESCO World Heritage university city since 2013 with about 156,000 residents.
Col. Lindum
Col. Lindum (Lindum Colonia) was the Roman colonia at modern Lincoln, England, founded c.84–96 AD on a former legionary fortress of Legio IX Hispana at the junction of Ermine Street and Fosse Way, one of four coloniae in Roman Britain.
Colchester
Colchester (Camulodunum) is a city in Essex, England, Britain's first Roman capital, site of Europe's largest Norman keep, population 192,700 in 2021, granted city status in 2022.
Coleford, Gloucestershire
Coleford, Gloucestershire: a market town of about 10,500 people in the Forest of Dean, three miles from the Welsh border. First recorded as Colevorde in 1275; noted for its Georgian Conservation Area, 1643 Civil War battle, Mushet family ironworks and Dennis Potter links.
Colerne
Colerne is a village and civil parish in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in north Wiltshire, England, known locally as "the village on the hill".
College Park, Georgia
College Park, Georgia: city in Fulton and Clayton counties near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; founded as Manchester in 1890, renamed 1895; population 13,930 (2020); home to Six West redevelopment and a large National Register historic district.
College Park, Maryland
College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., home to the University of Maryland's flagship campus and the world's oldest continuously operating airport.
College Station, Texas
College Station is a Texas city in Brazos County, adjoining Bryan, best known as the home of Texas A&M University; it was incorporated in 1938.
Collobrières
Collobrières is a commune in the Var department of southeastern France, set in the heart of the Massif des Maures and known as a center of chestnut production.
Colma, California
Colma, California, incorporated in 1924 as Lawndale, is a small San Mateo County town where about 1.6 million dead vastly outnumber its roughly 1,500 living residents.
Colmar
Colmar, prefecture of France's Haut-Rhin department in Alsace, about 67,000 inhabitants, known for Little Venice canals, the Unterlinden Museum with the Isenheim Altarpiece, and its dry wine-growing microclimate.
Colmier-le-Bas
Colmier-le-Bas is a commune of 22 inhabitants in Haute-Marne, Grand Est, France (INSEE 52137), known for the Gallo-Roman villa at Les Cloisets with early 2nd-century mosaics, inscribed a monument historique in 1990.
Colne
Colne is a market town in Pendle, East Lancashire, England, historically a cotton-weaving town specializing in quality cloths, now known for independent shops, the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, and its regenerated Market Hall.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln), Germany's fourth-largest city with about 1.1 million residents, a Rhine metropolis founded as a Roman colony, home of the Cologne Cathedral, Kölsch beer and dialect, Carnival, and a media, trade-fair and insurance economy rivaled in NRW only by Düsseldorf.
Colombo
Colombo (கொழும்ப) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka, on the island's west coast and home to one of South Asia's busiest ports.
Colonia del Sacramento
Colonia del Sacramento is a city in southwestern Uruguay on the Río de la Plata, founded by the Portuguese in 1680; its historic quarter is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs, Colorado: second-largest city in the state, founded 1871 by William Jackson Palmer; population 494,743 (2025), 195 square miles, military and tourism economy, Pikes Peak setting.
Colossae (Κολοσσαί)
Colossae (Κολοσσαί) was an ancient Phrygian city in the Lykos Valley, Turkey, near Laodicea and Hierapolis, addressed in Paul's Epistle to the Colossians; unexcavated until Pamukkale University's first systematic dig in 2025.
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri (CoMo, Collegetown USA) is the Boone County seat in central Missouri, founded 1821 from Smithton, home of the University of Missouri, with about 130,000 residents and a council-manager government.
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina, also known as Soda City, is the capital of South Carolina and the seat of Richland County, created in 1786 as the nation's first planned capital city.
Columbus, Georgia
Columbus, Georgia: consolidated city-county seat of Muscogee County on the Chattahoochee River, founded 1828, first Georgia consolidated government (1971), population about 202,000, home to the world's longest urban whitewater course and Fort Moore.
Columbus, Indiana
Columbus, Indiana, county seat of Bartholomew County on I-65, is a city of about 52,000 known as the "Athens of the Prairie" for its modernist architecture, Cummins headquarters, and the Cummins Foundation Architecture Program.
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio: state capital founded 1812 at the Scioto-Olentangy confluence, permanent capital since 1816. 14th largest US city, 905,748 residents (2020), growing metro of 2.24 million.
Combe Down
Combe Down is a plateau village situated 1.5 to 2 km south of Bath, Somerset, distinguished by its Roman villa and the Bath stone that supplied Georgian Bath.
Combined statistical area
Combined statistical area (CSA): OMB-defined grouping of adjacent U.S. metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas with an employment interchange measure of 15 or more; 184 CSAs with 582 components as of July 2023, first delineated in 2003.
Comilla
Comilla, officially Cumilla (কুমিল্লা), is a city in eastern Bangladesh on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway, seat of Cumilla City Corporation (founded 2011; 440,233 people in the 2022 census) in Chattogram Division.
Commuter town
Commuter town, also called bedroom community or dormitory town: a settlement whose residents live there but work in a nearby city. Covers definition, OECD commuting-based measurement, planned new towns that became dormitories, and telework effects.
Como
Como, city at the southern tip of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy; provincial capital and historic "City of Silk" with a 16th-century silk industry, UNESCO Creative City status, and the Duomo begun in 1396.