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Champerico, town and port, southwestern Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean. Linked by paved highway with Retalhuleu, Champerico is one of the country’s most important ports on the Pacific, though ships have to anchor about 1 mile (1.6 km) offshore. It handles chiefly coffee, timber, and sugar. Guatemala’s shri... |
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Champs-Élysées, officially Avenue des Champs-Élysées (French: “Avenue of the Elysian Fields”), broad avenue in Paris, one of the world’s most famous, which stretches 1.17 miles (1.88 km) from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde. It is divided into two parts by the Rond-Point (“roundabout”) d... |
6d26c0f6eb730f123b118f22042968e2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chandigarh-union-territory-India | Chandigarh | Chandigarh
union territory of India. Located about 165 miles (265 km) north of New Delhi, the territory is bounded by the state of Haryana on the east and by the state of Punjab on all other sides. It is situated on the Indo-Gangetic Plain a short…
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Chang-hua, Pinyin Zhanghua, county (hsien, or xian), west-central Taiwan. Chang-hua city, in the north of the county, is the administrative seat.
The county is bordered by the special municipality T’ai-chung (Taizhong) to the north, the counties Nan-t’ou (Nantou) and Yün-lin (Yunlin) to the east and south, r... |
5fb1a1488f1382192a6556fcc3d862ce | https://www.britannica.com/place/Changsha | Changsha | Changsha
Changsha, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ang-sha, city and capital of Hunan sheng (province), China. It is on the Xiang River 30 miles (50 km) south of Dongting Lake and has excellent water communications to southern and southwestern Hunan. The area has long been inhabited, and Neolithic sites have been discover... |
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Channel Islands, French Îles Normandes or Anglo-Normandes, archipelago in the English Channel, west of the Cotentin peninsula of France, at the entrance to the Gulf of Saint-Malo, 80 miles (130 km) south of the English coast. The islands are dependencies of the British crown (and not strictly part of t... |
ad3cd3092e13c3c74b254bf6c284ce58 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chao-Phraya-River | Chao Phraya River | Chao Phraya River
Chao Phraya River, Thai Mae Nam Chao Phraya, also called Maenam, principal river of Thailand. It flows south through the nation’s fertile central plain for more than 225 miles (365 km) to the Gulf of Thailand. Thailand’s capitals, past and present (Bangkok), have all been situated on its banks or tho... |
c45830e9ff5b0cb44734525d578086d1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chapayevsk | Chapayevsk | Chapayevsk
Chapayevsk, also spelled Čapajevsk, or Chapaevsk, formerly (until 1929) Ivashchenkovo, city, Samara oblast (province), western Russia, on the Chapayevka River, a tributary of the Volga. Formerly a centre of the defense industry specializing in explosives, it now concentrates on nitrogen production and ammon... |
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) Subsequently, however, in the Chapter House of Westminster Abbey (probably executed c. 1370) there was strong Germanic influence, which has been tentatively compared with the work of Master Bertram at Hamburg.
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4c69636f1601410161103686b1242c86 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chapultepec | Chapultepec | Chapultepec
Chapultepec, (Nahuatl: “Hill of the Grasshopper”) rocky hill about 200 feet (60 metres) high on the western edge of Mexico City that has long played a prominent role in the history of Mexico. The Aztecs fortified the hill but were expelled by neighbouring peoples; after their consolidation of power in the ... |
c277466c1038443ad2575e3f65d3959c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charcas | Charcas | Charcas
…Andean area, known then as Charcas or Upper Peru, was one of the wealthiest and most densely populated centres of the Spanish empire. Its mines were supplied with mitas (conscripted groups) of Indian labourers from throughout the Andes, and by the mid-17th century Potosí’s population had reached some 160,000—a... |
6cca53bc5974344835f22a628a33dfc2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charente | Charente | Charente
…the western départements of Vienne, Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Deux-Sèvres. In 2016 the Poitou-Charentes région was joined with the régions of Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative entity of Nouvelle Aquitaine.
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The so-called Charity Hospital system, supported and administered by the state, is fairly unusual among the 50 states. The system maintains several general and psychiatric hospitals. The Charity Hospital of Louisiana, in New Orleans, founded by private endowment in 1736 and later adopted... |
f78e573253ee74f305de16624fbc9e56 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charleroi-Brussels-Canal | Charleroi-Brussels Canal | Charleroi-Brussels Canal
A canal from Charleroi to Brussels links the basins of the two main rivers through the Ronquières lock. The Albert Canal links Antwerp with the Liège region. A maritime canal connects Brugge and Zeebrugge; another connects Ghent and Terneuzen (Netherlands), on the Schelde estuary; and a third l... |
0a88f97a41077b933908b2b428e0ce17 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Charlottenburg-Palace | Charlottenburg Palace | Charlottenburg Palace
The Charlottenburg Palace, dating from the late 17th century, is perhaps the city’s most outstanding example of Baroque design.
…the Baroque Eosander Chapel in Charlottenburg Palace has been restored. The former Technische Hochschule of Charlottenburg was reopened in 1946 as a university. The stad... |
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The borough’s name comes from Charnwood Forest, one of the ancient forests of the Midlands.
…valley lie the hills of Charnwood Forest, where some of Britain’s oldest bedrock is exposed at the surface in the form of Precambrian gritstone. North and west of the forest lies the Leicestershire coalfield, t... |
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In 1961 the 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, had a standard steel frame with rigid portal wind bracing, which required 275 kilograms of steel per square metre (55 pounds of steel per square foot), nearly the same as the Empire State Building o... |
7afd375b192b33ae0413abe3cfccdc4a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chateau-de-la-Duchesse-Anne | Château de la Duchesse Anne | Château de la Duchesse Anne
…granite castle, known as the Château de la Duchesse Anne, was built by the dukes of Brittany in the 14th and 15th centuries. Dinan is a market and small-industries (electronics, food-processing) town. It is also a tourist centre. Pop. (1999) 10,907; (2014 est.) 10,919.
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c9851666b1b7fedf5cd7cbb783b8230f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chateauguay | Châteauguay | Châteauguay
Châteauguay, town, Montérégie region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Châteauguay River, just south of its confluence with the St. Lawrence River. The site of a Jesuit mission established in 1736, it served as a trading centre during the settlement of the surrounding region. O... |
b24d6b78567acbcaeefff7249081f607 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chatham-England | Chatham | Chatham
Chatham, port, Medway unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Kent, southeastern England.
The port lies along the River Medway just above its confluence with the River Thames, on the southeastern periphery of Greater London. Chatham is continuous with the communities of Rochester (west) and Gillin... |
8e0d70052ed4e3dca74b6db8af3f4761 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chatham-Strait | Chatham Strait | Chatham Strait
Chatham Strait, narrow passage of the eastern North Pacific through the northern Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, U.S. It extends for 150 miles (240 km) from the junction of Icy Strait and Lynn Canal, past Chichagof and Baranof islands (west) and Admiralty and Kuiu islands (east), to Coronat... |
2a1b030da000561cf604c025b476ebb8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chatkal-Range | Chatkal Range | Chatkal Range
…northwest, which merges into the Chatkal Range. The Chatkal Range is linked to the Ysyk-Köl region by a final enclosing range, the Kyrgyz. The only other important lowlands in the country are the Chu and Talas river valleys in the north, with the capital, Bishkek, located in the Chu. The…
…highest peak i... |
bd42ac0a01fe03499597f5ccca989f57 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chattooga-River | Chattooga River | Chattooga River
The rushing Chattooga River, designated a national wild and scenic waterway, flows into the calmer Tugaloo River, which in turn flows into Hartwell Lake; all three are along Oconee county’s irregular western boundary. Lake Jocassee, impounded by the Jocassee Dam; Lake Keowee, impounded by the Keowee Dam... |
9721c6dce3a461374e977075b89efdd8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chaves-Portugal | Chaves | Chaves
Chaves, city and concelho (municipality), northern Portugal. It lies along the Tâmega River, north-northeast of Vila Real town.
The city, 5 miles (8 km) south of the Spanish frontier, is the site of a spa, the Chaves thermal springs, known as Aquae Flavius to the Romans, who fortified it. Chaves was later domin... |
53e5974cfd754816b3020007f316f84f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chavuma-Falls | Chavuma Falls | Chavuma Falls
…the river flows over the Chavuma Falls and enters a broad region of hummocky, sand-covered floodplains, the largest of which is the Barotse, or Zambezi, Plain. The region is inundated during the summer floods, when it receives fertile alluvial soils. The main tributaries intersecting the river along the ... |
f88416d00138604959f2b5d800eef28d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chaya | Chaya | Chaya
…after the Chulym, include the Chaya and the Parabel (both left), the Ket (right), the Vasyugan (left), and the Tym and Vakh rivers (both right). Down to the Vasyugan confluence the river passes through the southern belt of the taiga, thereafter entering the middle belt. Below the Vakh confluence the…
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The Chedi Si Suriyothai (Queen Suriyothai Memorial) is a monument to a famous queen who died in battle saving her husband, and Phra Mongkhon Bophit sanctuary contains one of the world’s largest seated images of the Buddha. Ayutthaya also has a massive elephant kraal (walled enclosure),…
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81510f2e369786ecca9324f7aac0743f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chefchaouene | Chefchaouene | Chefchaouene
Chefchaouene, also called Chechaouene or Chechaouen, French Chaouen, Spanish Xauen, town, northern Morocco, situated in the Rif mountain range. Founded as a holy city in 1471 by the warrior Abū Youma and later moved by Sīdī ʿAlī ibn Rashīd to its present site at the base of Mount El-Chaouene, it became a ... |
e4372eae6b58371a7ab77df7d03f0706 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cheleken-Peninsula | Cheleken Peninsula | Cheleken Peninsula
…Imperial Valley of California, the Cheleken Peninsula on the eastern edge of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan, in oil-field brines, and in submarine springs along the mid-ocean ridge. Fossil hydrothermal solutions can be studied in fluid inclusions, which are tiny samples of solution trapped in cryst... |
12b9d657ad380ffef358aab07ec47cd8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chelles | Chelles | Chelles
Chelles, town, eastern suburb of Paris, in Seine-et-Marne département, Paris région, north-central France, near the Marne River. It is the site of ancient Calae and has ruins of the 7th-century abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Chelles (founded by Bathilde, widow of Clovis II, and destroyed during the French Revolution).... |
a67131dd0fab4757076f5356605a216d | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chelmsford-district-England | Chelmsford | Chelmsford
Chelmsford, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Essex, England, lying in the valley of the River Chelmer northeast of Greater London in south-central Essex. Chelmsford town is the seat of the administrative county.
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f128c3fcf070c338ed346418d69d1e8a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chemayungdung-Glacier | Chemayungdung Glacier | Chemayungdung Glacier
The Brahmaputra’s source is the Chemayungdung Glacier, which covers the slopes of the Himalayas about 60 miles (100 km) southeast of Lake Mapam in southwestern Tibet. The three headstreams that arise there are the Kubi, the Angsi, and the Chemayungdung. From its source the river runs for nearly 70... |
3d28551919e19931e4b4af46886490fe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chengdu | Chengdu | Chengdu
Chengdu, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’eng-tu, city and capital of Sichuan sheng (province), China. Chengdu, in central Sichuan, is situated on the fertile Chengdu Plain, the site of Dujiangyan, one of China’s most ancient and successful irrigation systems, watered by the Min River. The system and nearby Mount Q... |
0d3436297a040735f1f9df6f7911087b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chennai | Chennai | Chennai
Chennai, formerly Madras, city, capital of Tamil Nadu state, southern India, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. Known as the “Gateway to South India,” Chennai is a major administrative and cultural centre. Pop. (2001) city, 4,343,645; urban agglom., 6,560,242.
Armenian and Portuguese traders were li... |
16c9e8a592e61ac0e676a776d848b870 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cheremkhovo | Cheremkhovo | Cheremkhovo
Cheremkhovo, also spelled Čeremchovo, city, southwestern Irkutsk oblast (region), southern Siberia, Russia. It is situated on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, about 90 miles (145 km) northwest of the city of Irkutsk.
Cheremkhovo was founded in 1772 as a station on the Great Siberian Post Road, and the town dev... |
34312fb54f24e75756143c2d83a12e0c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chhatarpur | Chhatarpur | Chhatarpur
Chhatarpur, city, north-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated in an area of scattered low hills about 12 miles (19 km) east of the Dhasan River (a tributary of the Betwa River).
The city is a major road junction and is a trade centre for agricultural products and cloth fabrics. It was ... |
5a133f3387fc838628f4e5b6c01e9a27 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chhindwara-India | Chhindwara | Chhindwara
Chhindwara, city, southern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies at an elevation of about 2,200 feet (670 metres) above sea level on an upland plateau south of the Satpura Range, about 35 miles (55 km) west of Seoni.
The city derives its name from chhind, Hindi for date palms. Chhindwara is situated ... |
749f969ebca5808a62c7802f3c6eaf22 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chiang-Mai | Chiang Mai | Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai, also spelled Chiengmai, largest city in northern Thailand and the third largest city in the nation after metropolitan Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima. It is located on the Ping River, a major tributary of the Chao Phraya River, near the centre of a fertile intermontane basin at an elevation of 1,1... |
605f75b4946a9701bc00a93b84cab34b | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chiatura-Georgia | Chiatura | Chiatura
Chiatura, also spelled Čiatura, city, central Georgia. Chiatura lies along the Kvirila River in a deep trench in the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus range. It is the centre of one of the largest manganese-mining areas of the world. The ore, which was first discovered in 1849, has been exploited sin... |
82dce10d1ae32064e26c11fc088d5a54 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chicago-Heights | Chicago Heights | Chicago Heights
Chicago Heights, city, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, about 30 miles (50 km) south of downtown. The city’s name derives from its proximity to Chicago and its elevation, which averages 95 feet (29 metres) above the surrounding area. The site was the intersection of t... |
faaf9b4ccaee9256705c4ecce5728c95 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chickamauga-and-Chattanooga-National-Military-Park | Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
…environs have been preserved in Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (established 1890), which encompasses about 13 square miles (33 square km) over several locations in Tennessee and Georgia. The park includes the major battlefields and sections on Orch... |
2b83f29eab412eeb6a928b57736172d6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chieti-Italy | Chieti | Chieti
Chieti, city, Abruzzi regione, central Italy, on a hill overlooking the Pescara River, south of Pescara. It originated as Teate, chief town of the Marrucini (an ancient Italic tribe), and was taken by the Romans in 305 bc. Destroyed by the barbarians and rebuilt by Theodoric the Ostrogoth king in the 6th centur... |
54923b0f402a68d2990fb08906a9c685 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chimaltenango-Guatemala | Chimaltenango | Chimaltenango
Chimaltenango, city, southwestern Guatemala. It is located 30 miles (48 km) from Guatemala City, in the central highlands at an elevation of 5,860 feet (1,786 metres) above sea level. Founded in 1526 just south of an old Mayan fortress, it is a market centre and transportation hub for the surrounding Ind... |
1613478d8c08c5e1206890b50ac8ab3a | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Relief | Relief of China | Relief of China
Broadly speaking, the relief of China is high in the west and low in the east; consequently, the direction of flow of the major rivers is generally eastward. The surface may be divided into three steps, or levels. The first level is represented by the Plateau of Tibet, which is located in both the Tibet... |
ff0b958ef54bd1f444ad35722feb5a5c | https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Struggle-for-the-premiership | Struggle for the premiership | Struggle for the premiership
As these programmatic aspects of the Cultural Revolution were being put into place and regularized, the political battle to determine who would inherit power at the top continued and intensified. Tensions first surfaced at a meeting of the Central Committee in the summer of 1970, when Chen ... |
968db68e25be495b6b1a509521033fcb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chindwin-River | Chindwin River | Chindwin River
Chindwin River, main tributary of the Irrawaddy River, northern Myanmar (Burma). The Chindwin is formed in the Pātkai and Kumon ranges of the Indo-Myanmar border by a network of headstreams including the Tanai, Tawan, and Taron. Called Ningthi by the Manipuris of India, it drains northwest through the ... |
015f0900fa5b98c1bf995ae194758757 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chirchiq | Chirchiq | Chirchiq
Chirchiq, formerly Chirchik, industrial city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies along the Chirchiq River, 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Tashkent. Chirchiq was created in 1935 from several villages that developed with the construction of the Chirchiq hydroelectric power station and a large electrochemical works prod... |
5eada81ca7fca3a922c0a5008a7f4cb1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Choson | Chosŏn | Chosŏn
…the ancient Korean state of Wiman (later named Chosŏn). Nangnang, which occupied the northwestern portion of the Korean peninsula and had its capital at P’yŏngyang, was the only one of the four colonies to achieve success. It lasted until 313 ce, when it was conquered by the expanding northern Korean…
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de738f5a4a6bd2967d5f0087ee1ebccd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Chott-El-Chergui | Chott El-Chergui | Chott El-Chergui
Chott El-Chergui, also spelled Chott Ech-Chergui, shallow saline lake or salt flat in the High Plateaus (Hauts Plateaux) of the Atlas Mountains in northwestern Algeria. It is about 100 miles (160 km) long and has no outlet; its area varies depending upon precipitation.
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a06dd326e5b1ab01b0a6f29026783163 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-Buttes | Church Buttes | Church Buttes
Church Buttes, eroded sandstone cliffs in Uinta county, extreme southwestern Wyoming, about 45 miles (72 km) west-southwest of Rock Springs. Named by Mormon pioneers for their steeple-like needles, the buttes rise 75 feet (23 metres) above the surrounding hills, to an elevation of 6,351 feet (1,936 metre... |
52e6775d27e2aa6ce03f3ab2ad7d9995 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-of-Our-Lady-church-Trier-Germany | Church of Our Lady | Church of Our Lady
The church of Our Lady at Trier (begun c. 1235) and the church of St. Elizabeth at Marburg (begun 1235) both have features, such as window tracery, dependent on northern French example; but the church at Trier is highly unusual in its centralized plan, and St.…
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e703a7aa88e1dabef387d4af8ca02f5a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-of-Saint-Peter-church-Louvain-Belgium | Church of Saint Peter | Church of Saint Peter
The Church of St. Peter, which originally dated from the early 11th century, was twice destroyed before being rebuilt as a Gothic structure (1425–97), and it was again damaged in both world wars. The church contains two fine paintings by Dieric Bouts and ironwork and brasswork—much…
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15ce8f7fdab0d3ebf54d72dfa9651264 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-of-Saint-Urbain | Church of Saint-Urbain | Church of Saint-Urbain
…of the most complete is Saint-Urbain, Troyes (founded 1262). There, one can see the virtuosity practiced by the architects in playing with layers of tracery, setting off one “skin” of tracery against another.
The church of Saint-Urbain in bold Gothic style was almost certainly begun in the 13th ... |
46e8c4006af99cc3ee3938fe11ec966f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-of-Sainte-Catherine | Church of Sainte-Catherine | Church of Sainte-Catherine
The timber church of Sainte-Catherine, which looks like a ship upside down, was constructed in the 15th century by shipbuilders. It is separated from its wooden belfry, which is in the Place du Marché.
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58f52c589aeef8293f9dd142e5e9e255 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Church-of-San-Vitale | Church of San Vitale | Church of San Vitale
Church of San Vitale, also called Basilica of San Vitale, church in Ravenna, Italy, that was built in the 6th century and is considered a masterpiece of Byzantine achitecture. It is especially noted for the colourful mosaics of Christian iconography that decorate the interior walls and ceilings.
T... |
31e4a948cee8e2529acdfe1e1cb30abe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Churchill-Downs | Churchill Downs | Churchill Downs
…first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs racetrack, Louisville, Kentucky. With the Preakness Stakes (run in mid-May) and the Belmont Stakes (early in June), it makes up American Thoroughbred racing’s coveted Triple Crown. The Derby field is limited to three-year-olds and, since 1975, to 20 horses; fill... |
5d34855f0cbdd066b035666b85057f2a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Ciechanow | Ciechanów | Ciechanów
Ciechanów, city, Mazowieckie województwo (province), east-central Poland. It is located in the Ciechanów Highlands on the Łydynia waterway, the Wkra River inlet, and the Warsaw-Gdańsk railway line, in a fertile agricultural area that produces wheat, rye, sugar beets, and potatoes. A walled city since the 11t... |
fa115c6b60b77dee5266d0fdc9f7c1e5 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cimarron-River | Cimarron River | Cimarron River
Cimarron River, river rising in northeastern New Mexico, U.S., near Capulin Mountain National Monument and flowing 698 mi (1,123 km) to enter the Arkansas River near Tulsa, Okla. From its source, the Cimarron flows east past Black Mesa, a peak 4,973 ft (1,516 m) high, through the northern Oklahoma Panh... |
4dcb32d38587bd616a7faa624ef8cd27 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cincinnati | Cincinnati | Cincinnati
Cincinnati, city, seat of Hamilton county, southwestern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River opposite the suburbs of Covington and Newport, Kentucky, 15 miles (24 km) east of the Indiana border and about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Dayton. Cincinnati is Ohio’s third largest city, after Columbus and Cle... |
4f3544ab5aa0d244ea7286284d76d3c6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Citium | Citium | Citium
Citium, Greek Kition, principal Phoenician city in Cyprus, situated on the southeast coast near modern Larnaca. The earliest remains at Citium are those of an Aegean colony of the Mycenaean Age (c. 1400–1100 bc). The biblical name Kittim, representing Citium, was also used for Cyprus as a whole. A Phoenician de... |
34fc44264c3778415473bb35fd2ba719 | https://www.britannica.com/place/City-of-Westminster | City of Westminster | City of Westminster
City of Westminster, inner borough of London, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames at the heart of London’s West End. The City of Westminster is flanked to the west by Kensington and Chelsea and to the east by the City of London. It belongs to the historic county of Middlesex. The... |
c41b0a298be186012396760d2a016de9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/City-Varieties-Music-Hall | City Varieties Music Hall | City Varieties Music Hall
…opened in 1878, and the City Varieties music hall, which was founded above a pub in 1865 and featured performances headlined by Charlie Chaplin, Lillie Langtry, and Harry Houdini, among others. For some 30 years (1953–83), City Varieties also hosted the British Broadcasting Corporation’s tele... |
fc545f77d01c48ed6a19ff9059c01757 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Clarence-River-New-South-Wales | Clarence River | Clarence River
Clarence River, coastal river, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, rising in the McPherson Range near the Queensland border, flowing south and northeast for 245 mi (394 km), and emptying into the Pacific 40 mi below Grafton. Its chief tributaries are the Timbarra, Mitchell, and Orara. Woodford, Ch... |
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…economic zone, known as the Clark Freeport Zone. The industrial and transportation facilities developed there attracted foreign trade and investment, thereby stimulating the economic growth of central Luzon. The base’s runways and other facilities were converted for use as an international airport.... |
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Clarksburg, city, seat of Harrison county, northern West Virginia, U.S. The city lies along the West Fork River. Settled in 1772, it was named for General George Rogers Clark, a noted Virginia frontiersman. Shortly thereafter Thomas Nutter arrived and built a fort near the site where the town of Nutter Fort... |
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Cle Elum River, watercourse, central Washington, U.S., rising in the Cascade Range. The river flows generally south through Cle Elum Lake, thence southeast past Cle Elum, joining the Yakima River of the Columbia River system after a course of about 28 miles (45 km). The fast-flowing river is a favourite... |
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Clonmacnoise, Irish Cluain Mhic Nóis, also spelled Cluain Moccu Nóis, early Christian centre on the left bank of the River Shannon, County Offaly, central Ireland. It lies about 70 miles (110 km) west of Dublin. Clonmacnoise was the earliest and foremost Irish monastic city after the foundation of an abbe... |
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…from Santiago de Cuba is Cobre, an old copper-mining town that houses Cuba’s most important shrine—dedicated to the Virgen de la Caridad (Virgin of Charity), proclaimed to be the protectress of Cuba. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors per year seeking blessings and healings. Pop. (2002) 423,392; (2011... |
080a9d6ef86dca6618a22349cda7218c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Coco-River | Coco River | Coco River
Coco River, Spanish Río Coco, river in southern Honduras and northern Nicaragua, rising west of the town of San Marcos de Colón, in southern Honduras, near the Honduras-Nicaragua border. The Coco flows generally eastward into Nicaragua, then turns northward near Mount Kilambé. For much of its middle and low... |
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Coihaique, city, southern archipelagic Chile. It is situated 50 miles (80 km) inland of Puerto Aisén and 25 miles (40 km) west of the Argentine border.
Founded in 1912 by a small group of German colonists, it is situated among grassy steppes between the Coihaique and Simpson rivers, in a densely forested and... |
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Colfax, county, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the north by Colorado. Its westernmost section is in the Southern Rocky Mountains and includes the Cimarron range, topped by 12,441-foot (3,782-metre) Baldy Peak, and the Sangre de Cristo range, which rises to more than 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) and in... |
7635e37dd71c733076827c09862dba91 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colima-Mexico | Colima | Colima
Colima, city, capital of Colima estado (state), west-central Mexico. It lies along the Colima River in the northeastern part of the state, in the Sierra Madre foothills some 1,700 feet (520 metres) above sea level. Founded close to the coast in 1523 by an envoy sent by the conquistador Hernán Cortés, Colima was... |
5d42c5270b89932bd364641a502e332a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombia/Revolution-and-independence | Revolution and independence | Revolution and independence
The French invasion of Spain in 1808 caused an outburst of loyalty to the king and country and excited grave concern for the church. Profound Granadine anxiety over the fate of the empire and conflicting courses of action attempted by colonial and peninsular subjects over control of governme... |
b872447cd290607be8cfb48bf0b71ffb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colonial-Historic-District | Colonial Historic District | Colonial Historic District
The city’s 40-block Colonial Historic District contains more structures dating from before the American Revolution than any other U.S. historic district. The narrow, crooked streets of Annapolis, the houses abutting directly on the brickwork sidewalks, the graceful tree-covered green about th... |
7eb67b8710ed6913373aa1daed637fbc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Colorado-state/Resources-and-power | Resources and power | Resources and power
Although not the leader that it was in the mining bonanzas of the 19th century, Colorado’s mineral industry continues to make substantial contributions to the economy. Among the principal minerals are coal, petroleum, molybdenum, gold, and sand and gravel. Northwestern Colorado has some of the large... |
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” Kennewick’s Columbia Park was the site of the discovery, in July 1996, of human remains that have been determined to be about 9,400 years old. The skull was long and narrow, suggesting European, rather than Asian, descent. This characteristic touched off a scholarly debate about the…
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Columbia Plateau, also called Columbia Intermontane, geographic region, northwestern United States. It forms part of the intermontane plateaus and is bordered east by the Northern Rocky Mountains and west by the Sierra Nevada–Cascade region. The plateau covers an area of about 100,000 square miles (26... |
17e8833c9d4cad6a0c559e878f0c8768 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Columbia-River | Columbia River | Columbia River
Columbia River, largest river flowing into the Pacific Ocean from North America. It is exceeded in discharge on the continent only by the Mississippi, St. Lawrence, and Mackenzie rivers. The Columbia is one of the world’s greatest sources of hydroelectric power and, with its tributaries, represents a th... |
c189faf33d6a3f84a49840d72fd25c81 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Conakry | Conakry | Conakry
Conakry, also spelled Konakry, national capital, largest city, and chief Atlantic port, western Guinea. Conakry lies on Tombo (Tumbo) Island and the Camayenne (Kaloum) Peninsula. Founded by the French in 1884, it derived its name from a local village inhabited by the Susu (Soussou) people. Subsequently it beca... |
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Concepción Volcano, one of two volcanic cones (the other is Madera) forming Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua, southwestern Nicaragua. Also known as Ometepe, it rises to 5,282 ft (1,610 m) and comprises the northern half of the island. Concepción is one of the country’s most active volcanoes and has ... |
9a2d36135aa051c67a7327dbb1eddc0f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Congo-Free-State | Congo Free State | Congo Free State
Congo Free State, French État Indépendant du Congo, former state in Africa that occupied almost all of the Congo River basin, coextensive with the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in the 1880s as the private holding of a group of European investors headed by Leopold II, king of ... |
4dc53b1646124db1d2a434b3f3565408 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Congo-River/Animal-life | Animal life | Animal life
The animal life of the Congo basin is identified to a certain extent with that of the equatorial forest, which is sharply distinct from the wildlife of the savannas. Within this equatorial domain, the Congo and its principal tributaries form a separate ecological milieu. The animal population of the great w... |
2407bfe210acb33bf0339b8b3ec14eac | https://www.britannica.com/place/Connecticut | Connecticut | Connecticut
Connecticut, constituent state of the United States of America. It was one of the original 13 states and is one of the six New England states. Connecticut is located in the northeastern corner of the country. It ranks 48th among the 50 U.S. states in terms of total area but is among the most densely popula... |
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Continental Divide, fairly continuous ridge of north-south–trending mountain summits in western North America which divides the continent’s principal drainage into that flowing eastward (either to Hudson Bay in Canada or, chiefly, to the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers in the United States) and th... |
7013f395fa47afb61450748a3b8793aa | https://www.britannica.com/place/Coral-Sea | Coral Sea | Coral Sea
Coral Sea, sea of the southwestern Pacific Ocean, extending east of Australia and New Guinea, west of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, and south of the Solomon Islands. It is about 1,400 miles (2,250 km) north-south and 1,500 miles east-west and covers an area of 1,849,800 square miles (4,791,000 square ... |
7e6760367d42c507f9c811833e7c1927 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cordillera-Central-mountains-Peru | Cordillera Central | Cordillera Central
…the plateau: the Cordilleras Occidental, Central, and Oriental. In the Cordillera Occidental, at latitude 10° S, the deep, narrow Huaylas Valley separates two ranges, Cordillera Blanca to the east and Cordillera Negra to the west; the Santa River runs between them and cuts Cordillera Negra to drain ... |
bc2866d73aa54ffacabeef4860015712 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cordillera-de-Talamanca | Cordillera de Talamanca | Cordillera de Talamanca
Cordillera de Talamanca, range in southern Costa Rica, extending to the border with western Panama. Its highest peak, Chirripó Grande, rises to 12,530 feet (3,819 metres). Poor transportation facilities limit access to the Talamanca region, where several national parks and Indian reservations ... |
5993b1920b449f1022aa6ab4a63ac065 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cordillera-Oriental-mountains-Colombia | Cordillera Oriental | Cordillera Oriental
…and western ranges—respectively named the Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental—are characteristic of most of the system. The directional trend of both the cordilleras generally is north-south, but in several places the Cordillera Oriental bulges eastward to form either isolated peninsu... |
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Cordilleras Occidental, Central, and Oriental. In the Cordillera Occidental, at latitude 10° S, the deep, narrow Huaylas Valley separates two ranges, Cordillera Blanca to the east and Cordillera Negra to the west; the Santa River runs between them and cuts Cordillera Negra to drain into the Pacific.... |
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Cork, Irish Corcaigh (“Marsh”), seaport and seat of County Cork, in the province of Munster, Ireland. It is located at the head of Cork Harbour on the River Lee. Cork is, after Dublin, the Irish republic’s second largest conurbation. The city is administratively independent of the county.
The centre of the old ci... |
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CoRoT-7b, the first extrasolar planet that was shown to be a rocky planet like Earth. CoRoT-7b orbits a main-sequence star, CoRoT-7, of spectral type K0 (an orange star, cooler than the Sun) that is about 500 light-years from Earth. CoRoT-7 was discovered in 2009 by the French satellite CoRoT (Convection, Rot... |
5b0b73516c9dff8941ee3ae922d0536a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Corrientes-province-Argentina | Corrientes | Corrientes
Corrientes, provincia (province), northeastern Argentina. It is bounded by the Paraná River (north and west), which forms the border with Paraguay (north), and by the Uruguay River (southeast), which borders Uruguay and Brazil. The city of Corrientes, in the northwest on the Paraná, is the provincial capit... |
e98b93a96cebb247a614e2eb50aa6927 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Corum | Çorum | Çorum
Çorum, city, north-central Turkey. It lies on the edge of a fertile plain.
A historic town on old trade routes from central Anatolia to the Black Sea coast, Çorum became famous for its hand-spinning and weaving cottage industries, the manufacture of copper utensils, and its leather products. It is also the main ... |
1ebb29fa0bc261d2b64218596a756d3a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cos-island-Greece | Cos | Cos
Cos, Modern Greek Kos, Italian Coo, Turkish İstanköy, island off the southwestern coast of Turkey, the third largest of the Dodecanese Islands, Greece.
A ragged limestone ridge runs along the southern coast. The highest point of the island, Mount Dhíkaios (2,776 feet [846 metres]), divides the island near its cent... |
72846f229e648c9a31cc66aa68562979 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Costa-Brava | Costa Brava | Costa Brava
Costa Brava, coastal region of the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain, extending for about 75 miles (120 km) along the Mediterranean Sea from the French border at Port-Bou to the Spanish beach resort of Blanes and thus coinciding with the coast of Girona province. T... |
b5e0c082a54c34b239c568578764de95 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cote-dIvoire | Côte d'Ivoire | Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire, country located on the coast of western Africa. The de facto capital is Abidjan; the administrative capital designate (since 1983) is Yamoussoukro.
Côte d’Ivoire is bounded to the north by Mali and Burkina Faso, to the east by Ghana, to the south by the Gulf of Guinea, to the southwest by ... |
6153ffd433e23aadd451630f74092141 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cottbus-Germany | Cottbus | Cottbus
Cottbus, also spelled Kottbus, city, Brandenburg Land (state), eastern Germany. It lies on the Spree River, at the southeastern edge of the Spree Forest, near the German border with Poland. First mentioned in 1156 and chartered in the early 13th century, Cottbus became an exclave of Brandenburg in 1445–55 in N... |
fd88d7a4c251099e8e01e689b2e0ba18 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cotton-Belt | Cotton Belt | Cotton Belt
Cotton Belt, Agricultural region of the southeastern U.S. where cotton is the main cash crop. Once confined to the pre-Civil War South, the Cotton Belt was pushed west after the war. Today it extends primarily through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, western Tennessee, eastern Arkan... |
23d7b5794e37dae6439d8db55a0160ec | https://www.britannica.com/place/Covadonga | Covadonga | Covadonga
Covadonga, village, Asturias provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), northwestern Spain. It lies east of Oviedo city, at the head of the Sella River valley, near the base of the Europa Peaks, which form the highest massif of the Cantabrian Mountains. The village is noted as the re... |
0a559fa165b0cb98707884d979254645 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cowes | Cowes | Cowes
Cowes, town (parish) at the northern extremity of the Isle of Wight, historic county of Hampshire, southern England, 11 miles (18 km) south of Southampton. The estuary of the River Medina separates East Cowes and Cowes.
Cowes Castle (1540) was built for coastal defense by Henry VIII; it has been the headquarters... |
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