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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 Bay
Chesapeake Bay: largest estuary in the United States, a drowned river valley formed about 18,000 years ago; 64,000-square-mile watershed across six states and DC, over 17 million residents, summer dead zones, and a decades-long EPA-coordinated restoration effort.
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.
Chesfield
Chesfield (Chivesfield, Chisfield) is a hamlet in Graveley parish, North Hertfordshire, 2 miles NNE of Stevenage, a former parish with ruined St Etheldreda church (dismantled 1750), Chesfield Park country house, and a manor farm.
Cheshire
Cheshire, a county in north-west England, was reorganized on 1 April 2009 into the unitary authorities Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester; it covers about 905 square miles, has over 1 million residents, and joined the Cheshire and Warrington Combined Authority in 2026.
Cheshire (district)
Cheshire (district) refers to Cheshire West and Chester, a unitary authority in Cheshire, North West England, formed in 2009; covers 941 km², population about 373,951, main town Chester.
Cheshire East
Cheshire East is a unitary authority and borough in eastern Cheshire, England, created on 1 April 2009 and home to about 425,400 people, with largest towns Crewe and Macclesfield.
Cheshmeh-Ali (Shahr-e-Rey)
Cheshmeh-Ali (چشمهعلی) is a spring and prehistoric settlement mound at Rey, south of Tehran, Iran, the type site of a painted-pottery culture of the 6th and 5th millennia BC.
Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach is a 28-kilometer shingle barrier beach in Dorset, England, running from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and sheltering the shallow Fleet Lagoon.
Chessington World of Adventures
Chessington World of Adventures, a Surrey/Greater London theme park, zoo and SEA LIFE resort near London. Zoo since 1931, theme park since 1987, Merlin-owned, with World of Jumanji, PAW Patrol (2026) and Minecraft World (2027).
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 County, Pennsylvania
Chester County, Pennsylvania, is a county west of Philadelphia founded by William Penn in 1682 as one of Pennsylvania's three original counties, with its seat at West Chester.
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 County, Virginia, United States
Chesterfield County, Virginia, a county founded May 25, 1749 from Henrico County, just south of Richmond; fourth-most populous Virginia county, 364,548 residents in 2020, site of Henricus and first commercially mined coal in North America.
Chesterfield Islands
Chesterfield Islands (Îles Chesterfield): uninhabited coral islets on one of the world's largest atolls in the Coral Sea, ~500 km northwest of New Caledonia; French since 1876, named after the 1793 whaler Chesterfield; major green turtle and seabird nesting site, protected within the Natural Park of the Coral Sea.
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.
Chesterton villa
Chesterton villa: Romano-British villa north of Ewefields Farm, Chesterton and Kingston, Warwickshire, found in 1922, excavated in the 1990s, with mosaics, hypocaust, and a scheduled medieval settlement.
Chettinad (செட்டிநாடு)
Chettinad (செட்டிநாடு), also called the Chettinad village clusters, is a Tamil Nadu region of 73 villages and 2 towns over 1,550 km², with 10,000-15,000 mansions built 1850s-1940s by the Nattukottai Chettiar banking community, on India's UNESCO Tentative List since 2014.
Chevigny
Chevigny names several French villages, mostly in Burgundy: a Yonne hamlet with a Roman quarry that supplied the colossal Apollo of Entrains, the Château de Chevigny at Millery, communes in the Jura and Côte-d'Or, and an Alberta coal mine.
Chevra kadisha
The chevra kadisha (חברה קדישא, Aramaic for holy society) is a Jewish burial society of volunteers who ritually wash, shroud, and guard the dead, considered a sacred duty since the earliest societies of the Talmudic era.
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Chevy Chase, Maryland: a group of municipalities and a Census-designated place in Montgomery County near Washington, DC, founded 1890 by Francis Newlands' Chevy Chase Land Company as a streetcar suburb along Connecticut Avenue.
Chew Bahir
Chew Bahir ('Salt Sea', Lake Stefanie) is a saline terminal playa lake in the southern Ethiopian Rift, about 70 by 30 km. It was a 2,000 km2 freshwater lake during the African Humid Period and holds a 620,000-year sediment core used to study human evolution.
Chew Green
Chew Green (Ad Fines?), Northumberland: scheduled Roman complex of a fort, two fortlets, two camps and Dere Street on the Cheviots, overlaid by the deserted medieval settlement Kemylpeth with a chapel.
Chew Park
Chew Park is a Roman villa site in the Chew Valley, Somerset, excavated before Chew Valley Lake was flooded in the 1950s; its well yielded ink-inscribed Roman writing tablets.
Cheyava Falls
Cheyava Falls is an arrowhead-shaped reddish rock in Mars' Jezero Crater, examined by NASA's Perseverance rover in 2024; its leopard spots and organic compounds make it the leading potential biosignature.
Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation was a joint reservation in Indian Territory, present-day western Oklahoma, where the Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho were settled after 1869.
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.
Chez Michaud, Suaux
Chez Michaud (Suaux) is a lieu-dit in Charente, France, site of 1st–2nd century Gallo-Roman villa remains discovered in 1961, classified monument historique 16 August 1973 (PA00104521), near the Via Agrippa.
Chezib
Chezib (Hebrew כְּזִיב) is a biblical town of Judah, named in Genesis 38:5 as the birthplace of Judah's son Shelah, probably the Achzib of Joshua 15:44.
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.