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Cochirleni

Cochirleni, a village in Rasova Commune, Constanța County, Romania, on the Danube; archaeological sites include Dealul Hinog (Hellenistic to early medieval), a possible Roman fort, and the Valul mare de pământ earthwork.

Cocos Island National Park

Cocos Island National Park (Parque Nacional Isla del Coco) protects Isla del Coco, a remote rainforested island and its surrounding waters, about 550 km off Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

Cocurnaco

Cocurnaco, also Cougournac/Congournac, an ancient place of late Roman Gaul at Puycornet, Tarn-et-Garonne, France; BAtlas 14 G4; attested in the 655 will of Saint Didier of Cahors.

Coequosa

Coequosa names both an Antonine Itinerary road station between Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax) and Burdigala (Bordeaux), possibly the Cocosates' capital at Sinderes, and a Smerinthinae hawk moth genus (Walker, 1856) from Australia.

Coesike West temporary camps

Coesike West temporary camps: two overlapping Roman temporary camps (Coesike West 1 and 2) near Hadrian's Wall vallum in Haydon, Northumberland; scheduled monument 1010938, 0.2 ha and 0.1 ha earthwork camps, the smaller probably earlier.

COEX Aquarium

COEX Aquarium (코엑스 아쿠아리움), since 2025 branded SEA LIFE COEX, is a large public aquarium in the Starfield COEX Mall in Gangnam, Seoul, opened in 2000 and housing about 40,000 animals of 650 species.

Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia

The Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, or Paisaje Cultural Cafetero, is a UNESCO World Heritage site of coffee farms and towns in western Colombia, listed in 2011.

Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection

Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection (Parque Nacional Coiba), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Panama's Gulf of Chiriqui since 2005, protecting Coiba Island, 38 smaller islands, and 430,825 ha of Pacific marine and insular habitat.

Coimbatore Zoo

Coimbatore Zoo (V.O.C. Park Zoo), a municipal zoo in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, established 1965 on 4.5 acres, holding about 400 animals; its Central Zoo Authority recognition was cancelled in 2022.

Cojocna

Cojocna (Hungarian Kolozs-Akna) is a commune in Cluj County, Romania, 20 km from Cluj-Napoca, a Dacian, Roman, and medieval salt-mining center whose abandoned mines became the hypersaline Török and Great lakes of the Băile Cojocna balneary resort.

Colca y Volcanes de Andagua UNESCO Global Geopark

Colca y Volcanes de Andagua UNESCO Global Geopark, Peru's first and only UNESCO Global Geopark, designated 17 April 2019 in the Arequipa region; features the 4,160 m Colca Canyon, about 35 monogenetic volcanic cones, and 119 geosites.

Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle is a Norman hall-keep castle in Colchester, Essex, built in the late 1060s or 1070s over the Roman Temple of Claudius and now housing a museum.

Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands

Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands: UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 2021, criteria ix and x) in western Georgia, seven components along 80 km of Black Sea coast protecting ancient deciduous rainforests and unique percolation bogs, with about 1,100 plant and 500 vertebrate species.

Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve

Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, in Lahaul–Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India; designated 27 September 2025 as India's 13th UNESCO biosphere reserve. Spans 7,770 km² at 3,300–6,600 m, covering Pin Valley National Park, Chandratal, and Kibber.

Cold Knap Roman Building

Cold Knap Roman Building, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan: late 3rd-century AD Roman courtyard building of local limestone and tile, 33 by 28 m, about 22 rooms, apparently never completed; interpreted as a mansio or maritime official building, excavated 1980-81.

Coleshill

Coleshill, Warwickshire: market town on a ridge between the rivers Cole and Blythe, near Birmingham. Domesday royal manor, 1207 market charter, Grimstock Hill temple, and HS2 excavations revealing Coleshill Hall's moat and gardens.

Colle Nocello

Colle Nocello, hill near Tivoli (Tibur) in Lazio with several Roman Republican and imperial villas, including the terraced "Villa di Mesio" with sculptures in the Museo Nazionale Romano.

Colle Plinio

Colle Plinio, San Giustino, Umbria: archaeological site of Pliny the Younger's villa 'in Tuscis', excavated from 1974 by the Umbria Soprintendenza and the Universities of Perugia and Alicante, with brick stamps tracing ownership from Granius Marcellus to the Plinys.

Colle Vitriano

Colle Vitriano, hill near Tivoli (Tibur) in Lazio, site of a large Roman villa on two terraced plateaus in polygonal masonry and caementicium, with gardens, baths, and the Vatican Hercules fronton; also a Marcellina road name.

College of Arms

The College of Arms, also known as Heralds' College, is the official heraldic authority for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and parts of the Commonwealth, based in London since 1484.

College of Pharmacy Herb Farm

College of pharmacy herb farms, or medicinal herb gardens (약초원, 薬草園), are university-maintained medicinal plant collections for pharmacy teaching and research; examples include Ewha (est. 1956, 270 species) and Kyushu University's regulated-plant garden.

College of the Augustales

College of the Augustales (Collegio degli Augustali): Roman municipal college of freedmen organizing the imperial cult, and its best-preserved building at Herculaneum, with sacellum, frescoes, and the 1961 custodian find.

Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg

Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg (Stiftskirche, Schloss und Altstadt), German UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1994 under criterion iv, former Ottonian capital with St Servatius basilica and over 2,000 half-timbered houses.

Collet Roman Villa

Collet Roman Villa (vil·la romana del Collet), maritime villa on the Collet hill, Sant Antoni de Calonge, Girona, occupied 2nd century BC to 5th century AD, with Collet Est pottery workshop, baths, mosaics, and rock-cut moorings.

Collina Po Biosphere Reserve

CollinaPo Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO MAB site designated 19 March 2016 around Turin, Italy; first Urban MAB in Italy, 171,234 ha across four provinces, Po river and Turin hill, about 1.5 million residents.

Coloane Arboretum

Coloane Arboretum (路環樹木園, Arboreto de Coloane) is a tree garden on Estrada do Alto de Coloane, Macau, set up in 1986 with over 100 local and exotic tree species as a reforestation gene bank.

Colombarone

Colombarone is an archaeological site in Pesaro, Italy, on the ancient Via Flaminia, where excavations by the University of Bologna uncovered a late Roman villa, later an early medieval basilica.

Colonial botanical garden networks

Colonial botanical garden networks were systems of botanic gardens European empires ran across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania to move valuable crops like tea and rubber.

Colonial City of Santo Domingo

Colonial City of Santo Domingo (Ciudad Colonial), UNESCO World Heritage site since 1990 in the Dominican Republic; founded 1498 by Bartholomew Columbus, rebuilt on the Ovando grid in 1502; first cathedral, hospital, customs house, and university in the Americas; 106 ha property with 465.49 ha buffer zone.

Colonies of Benevolence

Colonies of Benevolence (Koloniën van Weldadigheid): Dutch-Belgian agricultural settlements founded from 1818 by the Society of Benevolence to reform paupers through labour; UNESCO World Heritage since 2021.