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Covington, Georgia
Covington, Georgia, county seat of Newton County about 30 miles east of Atlanta, founded 1822 as Newtonsborough and renamed for War of 1812 hero Leonard Covington; known for its 1885 courthouse square, historic district, and film tourism from The Vampire Diaries and The Dukes of Hazzard.
Covington, Louisiana
Covington, Louisiana: parish seat of St. Tammany Parish on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, about 40 miles from New Orleans. Founded July 4, 1813 as the Town of Wharton by John Wharton Collins; renamed 1816 for General Leonard Covington; known for its ox-lot historic district.
Cox Green
Cox Green is a village and civil parish on the western outskirts of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, known for its Romano-British villa excavated in 1959 and the fifteenth-century Grade I listed Ockwells Manor.
Cox's Bazar (কক্সবাজার)
Cox's Bazar (কক্সবাজার) is a coastal town and district headquarters in southeastern Bangladesh, named for East India Company officer Captain Hiram Cox, famed for its roughly 120-km natural sea beach, Marine Drive to Teknaf, and domestic tourism.
Craiova
Craiova, city in southwestern Romania, capital of Dolj County and center of Oltenia; about 234,000 residents (2021 census), historic seat of the bans, home to the University of Craiova, Romanescu Park, and Brâncuși sculptures.
Crawley
Crawley: West Sussex town and borough, designated a New Town on 9 January 1947, home to London Gatwick Airport and Manor Royal; population 118,500 (2021), economy about £6 billion GVA, 14 neighbourhoods, borough council to be dissolved March 2028.
Cremona
Cremona is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, and provincial capital. It is known worldwide for its historic violin making tradition and the Torrazzo, Europe's tallest brick tower.
Crescent City, California
Crescent City, California: only incorporated city of Del Norte County, county seat since 1857, population about 6,000. Known as a tsunami magnet due to the Mendocino Fracture Zone; devastated by the 1964 Alaska tsunami.
Crested Butte, Colorado
Crested Butte, Colorado: former coal mining town in Gunnison County at 8,885 ft, the state-designated Wildflower Capital, a National Historic District, ski and mountain-bike destination facing a severe housing and short-term rental squeeze.
Créteil
Créteil, prefecture of the Val-de-Marne department in Île-de-France (not to be confused with Creil in the Oise), is a commune of 93,397 inhabitants (2023) south-east of Paris, rebuilt as a New Town-style ZUP from the 1960s, home to UPEC university and led by mayor Laurent Cathala since 1977.
Crewe
Crewe, Cheshire: railway town founded around the 1837 Grand Junction Railway station and Crewe Works (1843), a West Coast Main Line junction, later shaped by HS2's cancelled northern leg and ongoing regeneration.
Crewkerne
Crewkerne: South Somerset market town of about 7,300 people near the Dorset border; Saxon royal estate with minster and mint, Domesday market, sailcloth and webbing industry, Grade I St Bartholomew's church, and a Waterloo–Exeter railway station.
Criciúma (city)
Criciúma is a city in southern Santa Catarina, Brazil, founded by Italian immigrants in 1880, known as the National Coal Capital and a major producer of ceramic tiles.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Cripple Creek, Colorado: small Teller County gold-rush city at 9,500 feet, site of the 1890 Bob Womack gold strike, now a casino and heritage tourism town and home to the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine.
Cromwell, New Zealand
Cromwell, Central Otago town at the Kawarau–Clutha river junction, founded in the 1862 Hartley and Reilly gold strike as The Junction, renamed 1863, flooded by Lake Dunstan, now a stone fruit and wine center.
Crotone
Crotone (ancient Kroton) is a Calabrian provincial capital in southern Italy, founded by Achaean Greeks in the late 8th century BC, home of Pythagoras's school, victor over Sybaris in 510 BC, and site of the Heraion of Capo Colonna.
Croydon
Croydon is a major town and administrative centre in south London, the seat of the London Borough of Croydon. Population 390,800 (2021); known for Tramlink light rail, the 1896 Town Hall, and town-centre regeneration after the council's 2020 financial collapse.
Cúa
Cúa is a city in Miranda state, Venezuela, capital of Urdaneta Municipality in the Valles del Tuy, about 36 km south of Caracas. Founded in the 1690s, destroyed by the 1878 earthquake, it is the terminus of the Caracas–Cúa railway.
Cuatro Ciénegas
Cuatro Ciénegas (Cuatrociénegas) is a Ramsar wetland oasis in Coahuila's Chihuahuan Desert with 200+ spring-fed pozas, over 70 endemic species, stromatolites, gypsum dunes, and marine-affinity microbes, now threatened by aquifer depletion.
Cuautitlán, México
Cuautitlán (Romero Rubio), a municipality in northern State of Mexico within the Valley of Mexico metro area; 178,847 residents (2020), founded as a municipality 2 March 1824, distinct from Cuautitlán Izcalli.
Cubières
Cubières, Lozère commune in Occitanie, France (pop. 209, 2016), near Mont Lozère; known for the ancient-to-20th-century Neyrac lead-zinc-silver mines of the Bleymard district and their post-mining risks.
Cúcuta
Cúcuta (San José de Cúcuta), capital of Norte de Santander, Colombia, founded 1733 by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar; 777,101 inhabitants, sixth-largest municipality, main Colombia–Venezuela border crossing with 48,000–60,000 daily crossers and 51% of binational trade.
Cuddalore
Cuddalore (கடலூர்), Tamil Nadu coastal city and district headquarters on the Coromandel Coast; 2,605,914 people (2011), sugarcane belt, historic Fort St David, cyclone- and tsunami-prone.
Cuenca, Ecuador
Cuenca (Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca) is Ecuador's third city, capital of Azuay province, founded 12 April 1557 on Inca Tomebamba; its historic centre has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. Distinct from Cuenca, Spain.
Cuernavaca
Cuernavaca (Cuauhnahuac) is the capital of Morelos, Mexico, 85 km south of Mexico City, known as the City of Eternal Spring at about 21 degrees C; founded by the Tlahuicas, remade by Cortés, state capital since 1869.
Cuíto (city)
Cuíto (Kuíto, formerly Silva Porto) is the capital of Bié Province, central Angola, on the Bié Plateau. A caravan and Benguela Railway trading town, it suffered devastating UNITA sieges in 1993 and 1998 and is undergoing major reconstruction.
Culiacán
Culiacán (Culiacán Rosales), capital of Sinaloa, Mexico; founded as San Miguel de Culiacán in 1531; city of three rivers with about 1 million municipal residents and Sinaloa's dominant economy, now contested by Sinaloa Cartel factions.
Cullman, Alabama
Cullman, Alabama: county seat of Cullman County, founded 1873 by Bavarian colonizer Johann G. Cullmann as a German immigrant colony along the L&N Railroad. Population 18,213 (2020), Mayor–Council government, known for Oktoberfest, Rock the South, and its sundown-town history.
Culver City, California
Culver City, California: independent Westside Los Angeles County city incorporated 1917, founded by Harry H. Culver, nicknamed the Heart of Screenland; home to Sony Pictures Studios and The Culver Studios, population 40,779 (2020).
Cumaná
Cumaná, also Nueva Córdoba, is the capital of Sucre state, Venezuela, founded in 1520 as the first permanent European-built settlement in Latin America, a Gulf of Cariaco port shaken by major earthquakes in 1530 and 1766.