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Cadiz, chartered city and port, northern Negros Island, Philippines. It is one of five chartered cities and one of the principal ports on the island where most of the country’s sugar is grown and refined and where fishing is a major industry. Herring, anchovy, round scad, and mackerel are caught. Cadiz fronts no... |
6daabca25dd10f99560b4588efbfb161 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cadiz-province-Spain | Cádiz | Cádiz
Cádiz, provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain, fronting the Mediterranean Sea to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It was formed in 1833 from districts taken from Sevilla. The enclave of Ceuta on the Moroccan coast was administrative... |
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Caernarfon, also spelled Caenarvon or Carnarvon, town, Gwynedd county, historic county of Caernarvonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), northern Wales. It lies near the west end of the Menai Strait separating the mainland from the Isle of Anglesey. Caernarfon is the administrative centre of Gwynedd and the historic cou... |
29ad999df92f842ceec8cbb24c432cbb | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cagayan-de-Oro | Cagayan de Oro | Cagayan de Oro
Cagayan de Oro, city, northern Mindanao, southern Philippines. It lies along the Cagayan River near the head of Macajalar Bay. After its establishment as a mission station in the 17th century, it was fortified by the Spaniards. Cagayan de Oro was chartered as a city in 1950 and has become the transporta... |
1ee8e4df9cf7a215ff7613882fcdca8c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cahokia | Cahokia | Cahokia
Cahokia, village, St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1699 by Quebec missionaries and named for a tribe of Illinois Indians (Cahokia, meaning “Wild Geese”), it was the first permanent European settlement in Illinois and bec... |
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Cahors, town, capital of Lot département, Occitanie région, formerly capital of Quercy province, southern France. It is situated on a rocky peninsula surrounded by the Lot River and overlooked (southeast) by Mont Saint-Cyr, northeast of Agen. It was the capital of the ancient Cadurci people and was the Roman Di... |
94341224d0aa7e02bc1f8db5c2233806 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caibarien | Caibarién | Caibarién
Caibarién, port city, central Cuba. It is located on Buena Vista Bay on the country’s north (Atlantic) coast.
Caibarién is a major centre for the collection and distribution of goods from the agricultural hinterland, which produces mainly sugarcane, tobacco, and fruit. Sponge fishing is carried on offshore, ... |
086fdfee9125baf54e9a808945429e9e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cairo | Cairo | Cairo
Cairo, Arabic Al-Qāhirah (“The Victorious”), city, capital of Egypt, and one of the largest cities in Africa. Cairo has stood for more than 1,000 years on the same site on the banks of the Nile, primarily on the eastern shore, some 500 miles (800 km) downstream from the Aswān High Dam. Located in the northeast o... |
ec103dce3794626a4447895e21d7efd4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cairo/People | People | People
Cairo’s population, once both ethnically and religiously diverse, is now predominantly Muslim. A significant number of Egyptian Christians, the majority of whom observe the Coptic Orthodox faith, continue to dominate certain districts in the city. Remnants of the old Italian, Greek, Syrian, and Sudanese communit... |
2fa43e72619e269de0bc2db746d3a1cf | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cajamarca-Peru | Cajamarca | Cajamarca
Cajamarca, city, northern Peru, lying at 9,022 feet (2,750 metres) above sea level on the Cajamarca River. An ancient Inca city, it was the site of the capture, ransom, and execution of the Inca chief Atahuallpa by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532. The settlement languished until 1802, when it was ... |
45faa8232695907ad089077747c7f4c0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Calah | Calah | Calah
Calah, also spelled Kalhu or Kalakh, modern Nimrūd, ancient Assyrian city situated south of Mosul in northern Iraq. The city was first excavated by A.H. (later Sir Austen) Layard during 1845–51 and afterward principally by M.E.L. (later Sir Max) Mallowan (1949–58).
Founded in the 13th century bce by Shalmaneser ... |
836acf60731103af54a9ce41b5c71083 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Calarasi-Romania | Călăraşi | Călăraşi
Călăraşi, city, capital of Călăraşi judeƫ (county), southeastern Romania. It is located at the border with Bulgaria on the Borcea arm of the Danube and along Lake Călăraşi, about 60 mi (100 km) east-southeast of Bucharest. Călăraşi is first documented in 1593, during the reign of Michael the Brave (Mihai Vite... |
d95207895c229f7c6aa1d3ebfb361c66 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Calderone | Calderone | Calderone
…Corno Grande is the small Calderone glacier, the southernmost in Europe. Wild boars still roam the Alpine region below the summit, and there are some dense woods of beech and pine. The area is much frequented by winter sports enthusiasts and mountaineers.
…only glacier on the peninsula, Calderone, the southe... |
2cd3840ecc194a54e0c00d58dcca272e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caldwell-Idaho | Caldwell | Caldwell
Caldwell, city, seat (1892) of Canyon county, southwestern Idaho, U.S., on the Boise River. It originated (1883) as a construction camp for the Oregon Short Line Railroad and was named for Alexander Caldwell, the railroad president. Lake Lowell (formerly Deer Flat Reservoir), a unit in the Boise Irrigation Pr... |
c8a0c670af23fc48158c1a957dc26bac | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caledon-River | Caledon River | Caledon River
Caledon River, tributary of the Orange River in southeastern Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg, on the Lesotho–South Africa border, and flows generally southwest, forming most of the boundary between Lesotho and Free State province, South Africa. Maseru, capital of Lesotho, lies on the river. The Cale... |
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…southwest lies an islet, the Calf of Man, with precipitous cliffs, which is administered by the Manx National Heritage as a bird sanctuary.
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Calgary, city, southern Alberta, Canada. The physical setting of Calgary distinguishes it from other cities of the Prairie Provinces. It is situated on the western edge of the Great Plains, in the foothills of the spectacular Canadian Rockies (about 60 miles [100 km] to the west), and the surrounding valleys a... |
84c392f01feb377172fcfc8589a4845a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Calhoun-Georgia | Calhoun | Calhoun
Calhoun, city, seat of Gordon county, northwestern Georgia, U.S. It lies near the Oostanaula River, 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Rome. Known formerly as Oothcaloga (“Place of the Beaver Dams”) and, later, as Dawsonville, the town was renamed in 1850 to honour the South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun. The ... |
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…and sea expeditions from Baja California, and the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra established the first mission at San Diego. Gaspar de Portolá set up a military outpost in 1770 at Monterey. Colonization began after 1773 with the opening of an overland supply route across the southwestern deserts t... |
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California is oriented toward tax-supported public education. The two-year junior or community college was introduced in California in 1907, and there are now more than 100 such colleges. Four-year state colleges and the University of California system complete the public higher-education structure. The Unive... |
676d1f66c27951694d7b78ad7b368acd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caliman-Massif | Căliman Massif | Căliman Massif
The Căliman Massif (6,896 feet [2,096 metres]) is the largest one of volcanic origin in Romania. The Someșul Mare and its tributaries, including the Țibleș and Illișua rivers, flow southwestward through the county. Bistrița is the county capital. Neolithic remains and Bronze Age tombs were found…
…south,... |
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Caliphate of Córdoba, Muslim state that existed in Spain from January 16, 929, when ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III assumed the supreme title of caliph, to 1031, when the puppet ruler Hishām III was deposed by his viziers and the caliphate disintegrated into the so-called kingdoms of the taifa. During this cen... |
18b17cdf32d0bc9dc86073c7746bf5de | https://www.britannica.com/place/Callander-Scotland | Callander | Callander
Callander, small burgh (town), Stirling council area, historic county of Perthshire, Scotland, on the River Teith. It is a tourist centre on an important entry point into the Highlands, near the Trossachs, Loch Katrine, and the mountain Ben Ledi, which has an elevation of 2,873 feet (876 metres). This romant... |
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Roosevelt State Park, and the Callaway Gardens are among several nearby recreational facilities. LaGrange College, the state’s oldest independent accredited four-year liberal arts school, was founded in 1831. Quartz is mined in the vicinity. Inc. town, 1828; city, 1856. Pop. (2000) 25,998; (2010) 29,58... |
0946cd9773cedb1e9abe8b0165f614f4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Calleva-Atrebatum | Calleva Atrebatum | Calleva Atrebatum
…important Roman British town of Calleva Atrebatum, a node of the Roman road system in Britain. Most of the antiquities recovered from the site are in the Reading Museum; the local Calleva Museum illustrates the life of the Roman town. Pop. (2001) 918; (2011) 921.
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Callide Valley, valley in eastern Queensland, Australia, a southeast-northwest corridor extending for 70 miles (110 km) west of the Calliope Range. Its principal settlement is Biloela. Cotton, grains, and dairy pastures are irrigated from subartesian sources and dams on the seasonal Callide Creek. The ... |
39c60b6401bf496f71d5f6868b6c1eb6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caloris | Caloris | Caloris
Caloris, prominent multiringed impact basin on Mercury. The ramparts of Caloris are about 1,550 km (960 miles) across. Its interior contains extensively ridged and fractured plains. The largest ridges are a few hundred kilometres long. More than 200 fractures comparable to the ridges in size radiate from Calor... |
ed87830e190af4b4d6114b29aa405117 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Calumet-District | Calumet District | Calumet District
Calumet District, heavily industrialized area, mostly in Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, adjacent to southeastern Chicago. Following the establishment of steel plants in Gary at the start of the 20th century, the area developed from a swampy s... |
8ebadf7f559de5ce805e7517726b12d0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cam-Linh | Cam Linh | Cam Linh
…off the tip of Point Cam Linh, offers some protection to ships at anchor, but the 1-mile- (1.6-kilometre-) wide strait that opens into the inner bay of Cam Linh provides year-round protection from monsoons and typhoons. On the western shore of Cam Linh is the site of the former French…
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fa5e17014aceb0e8fbed91299039596f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cambodia | Cambodia | Cambodia
Cambodia, country on the Indochinese mainland of Southeast Asia. Cambodia is largely a land of plains and great rivers and lies amid important overland and river trade routes linking China to India and Southeast Asia. The influences of many Asian cultures, alongside those of France and the United States, can ... |
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The little that is known of Khmer history in the years following the abandonment of Angkor is a confusing mixture of uncertain dates, mythical figures, and complex dynastic rivalries. Cambodian chronicles for that period, composed several centuries afterward, are impossible to verify against... |
4cee6074440e5e8852de35490c130445 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cambodia/The-Khmer-state-Angkor | The Khmer state (Angkor) | The Khmer state (Angkor)
In 790 a young Cambodian prince, claiming to be descended from the rulers of Funan, was consecrated in eastern Cambodia under the title Jayavarman II. Part of the ceremony involved breaking ties with “Java,” which probably was a reference not to the island of Java but to the kingdom of Srivijay... |
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The Cambrian Mountains, which form the core of Wales, are clearly defined by the sea except on the eastern side, where a sharp break of slope often marks the transition to the English lowlands. Cycles of erosion have repeatedly worn down the ancient and austere surfaces.…
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…via an estuarine division called Cambridge Gulf, which is the site of Wyndham, the area’s principal port. The Victoria River flows into the gulf’s Queen’s Channel and the Fitzmaurice River into Keyling Inlet. Aboriginal reserves are on the east and west shores. The gulf was entered (1644) by the Dutch…
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3800a27fda7ebbc0839d8e06fd568252 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cambridge-Ontario | Cambridge | Cambridge
Cambridge, city, regional municipality of Waterloo, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies 55 miles (90 km) west-southwest of Toronto. Cambridge was created in 1973 from the consolidation of the city of Galt, the towns of Hespeler and Preston, and parts of the townships of Waterloo and North Dumfries. Galt wa... |
8faaf6b46e0d93dd5d97218eb56c5abd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Camden-New-Jersey | Camden | Camden
Camden, city, seat (1844) of Camden county, New Jersey, U.S., on the Delaware River, there bridged to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1681, the year before Philadelphia was founded, William Cooper built a home near the Cooper River where it enters the Delaware and named the tract Pyne Point. Settlement, largely ... |
cd257cb10f34490b11b134c651977f3a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Camiguin | Camiguin | Camiguin
Camiguin, mountainous island in the Bohol (Mindanao) Sea, 6 miles (10 km) off the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines. Located near Macajalar and Gingoog bays, the island is often considered the most beautiful of the Philippine archipelago. Since 1948, eruptions of volcanic Mount Hibok-Hibok (4,363 feet [... |
26cebe2a204acc164108b61e5cff1721 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Campaspe-River | Campaspe River | Campaspe River
Campaspe River, river in central Victoria, Australia. It rises in the Eastern Highlands 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Melbourne and flows northward past Kyneton, beyond which it is dammed to form the Eppalock Reservoir. It continues past Elmore to enter the Murray River near Echuca after a course of 10... |
84f3144795eecb0cc870c91ef23fc485 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Campbell-River | Campbell River | Campbell River
Campbell River, district municipality, at the mouth of the Campbell River on the east coast of Vancouver Island, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is a centre for lumbering and paper mills and a popular vacation centre renowned for salmon fishing (based on its Tyee Club [Tyee is an Indian word f... |
7dc530588d6fd6fe5c43c01f1a9acb38 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Campo-Grande | Campo Grande | Campo Grande
Campo Grande, city, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul estado (state), southwestern Brazil. It lies near the headwaters of the Anhanduí River, in the Maracaju Mountains at 1,770 feet (540 metres) above sea level.
Campo Grande is the largest city and the most active commercial centre of Mato Grosso do Sul. In 1... |
4facdd2e895907cfaba67aaf2438ebbc | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canada-Basin | Canada Basin | Canada Basin
…the Arctic Ocean is the Canada Basin, which extends approximately 700 miles from the Beaufort Shelf to the Alpha Cordillera. The smooth basin floor slopes gently from east to west, where it is interrupted by regions of sea knolls. The average depth of the Canada Basin is 12,500 feet.
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North America’s first humans migrated from Asia, presumably over a now-submerged land bridge from Siberia to Alaska sometime about 12,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age; it has also been argued, however, that some people arrived earlier, possibly up to 60,000 years ago. Unknown numbers of people moved south... |
b6d03631424a72be9fef777c5568de90 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canada/Samuel-de-Champlain | Samuel de Champlain | Samuel de Champlain
In 1604 the French navigator Samuel de Champlain, under Pierre du Gua, sieur de Monts, who had received a grant of the monopoly, led a group of settlers to Acadia. He chose as a site Dochet Island (Île Sainte-Croix) in the St. Croix River, on the present boundary between the United States and Canada... |
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By the late 1970s the glamour of the Trudeau regime was wearing off, and his policies were falling into confusion. The bilingual initiative was pushed beyond the brink of tolerance in English Canada and was hastily truncated before even the federal civil ser... |
a4ba43e4ea13426e69ccfc86ec4894b1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canada/The-performing-arts | The performing arts | The performing arts
There was a virtual explosion of musical activity in Canada in the second half of the 20th century. Choral music societies sprang up across the country. Opera grew; Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver had regular opera seasons, and the Toronto-based Canadian Opera Company toured extensively, often to r... |
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Canadian aboriginal reserves, system of reserves that serve as physical and spiritual homelands for many of the First Nations (Indian) peoples of Canada. In 2011 some 360,600 people lived on reserves in Canada, of which 324,780 claimed some form of aboriginal identity. Reserves are governe... |
801ae4e44c70d60db8fcccd65db41053 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canadian-aboriginal-reserves/Land-claims | Land claims | Land claims
Land claim settlements in many provinces and territories, and Treaty Land Entitlement negotiations in Saskatchewan and Alberta, increased the overall size of many aboriginal reserves and territories. The numerous land claims (both specific and comprehensive) by aboriginal peoples against the federal governm... |
670e198ec5bdda1125c3ef2dcbeed13e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canadian-Rockies | Canadian Rockies | Canadian Rockies
Canadian Rockies, segment of the Rocky Mountains, extending southeastward for about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from northern British Columbia, Canada, and forming nearly half the 900-mile (1,500-km) border between the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The Mackenzie and Selwyn mountains farther no... |
121d82486e06979029216e1dad604d89 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canadian-Shield | Canadian Shield | Canadian Shield
Canadian Shield, one of the world’s largest geologic continental shields, centred on Hudson Bay and extending for 8 million square km (3 million square miles) over eastern, central, and northwestern Canada from the Great Lakes to the Canadian Arctic and into Greenland, with small extensions into northe... |
39e4c78bc58ef9b8f96472d277ac1d12 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canadian-Zone | Canadian Zone | Canadian Zone
The Canadian Zone, covering 4,000 square miles (10,000 square km) at elevations of 8,500 to 9,500 feet (2,600 to 2,900 metres), contains blue spruce and Douglas fir. The Hudsonian and Arctic-Alpine zones, above 9,500 feet, are too small in area and too sparsely covered to be…
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2ab6366843619caab95ff58421432df4 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canakkale | Çanakkale | Çanakkale
Çanakkale, city, northwestern Turkey. It is located at the mouth of the Koca River (the ancient Rhodius River), on the Asian side of the Dardanelles.
Originally a 15th-century Ottoman fortress called Kale-i Sultaniye, it had by the 18th century developed a reputation for its pottery, whence its name (Turkish... |
d8bfc7b634ca44a2551b0ea0ea8dc96f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canal-Lateral-a-la-Garonne | Canal Latéral à la Garonne | Canal Latéral à la Garonne
…with the building of the Canal Latéral à la Garonne. The locks on both canals were shorter, at 30 metres (98 feet), than the standard French dimensions of 38.5 metres (126 feet) introduced in 1879 by Charles de Freycinet, the minister of public works, and the maximum weight a barge…
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a976daa08f17bebd83666b4339d6e037 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canal-Messier | Canal Messier | Canal Messier
…m (4,290 feet) deep, and Canal Messier in Chile is 1,270 m (4,167 feet). The great depth of these submerged valleys, extending thousands of feet below sea level, is compatible only with a glacial origin. It is assumed that the enormous, thick glaciers that formed in these valleys were so…
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Canastra Mountains, Portuguese Serra Da Canastra, mountain range on the Planalto Central (Brazilian Highlands) in western Minas Gerais estado (state), southeastern Brazil. Extending 150 miles (240 km) from the Goías state border in the north to the upper Grande River in the south, the Canastra Mount... |
93a61c582e75c2ffaedf8ff6dbeb0ac3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cangas-de-Narcea | Cangas de Narcea | Cangas de Narcea
Cangas de Narcea, also called Cangas de Tineo, city, Asturias provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), northwestern Spain. It lies southwest of Oviedo city at the confluence of the Narcea and Luiña rivers. The name combines cangas (“towns”) with the Narcea, which is spanned ... |
732c751e60466916b1cf682a385679da | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caniapiscau-River | Caniapiscau River | Caniapiscau River
Caniapiscau River, French Rivière Caniapiscau, river in Nord-du-Québec region, northern Quebec province, Canada. Rising from Lake Caniapiscau in central Quebec, it flows generally northward for 460 miles (740 km) to its junction with the Larch River, discharging into Ungava Bay via the 85-mile- (137-... |
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…in the area, and the Cannibal Cave, a notorious hideout for cannibals during the Difaqane (migratory wars) in the early 19th century, are in the vicinity. Berea Mission (named for a Greek town where St. Paul found converts of remarkable zeal), which was maintained for 50 years by an Anglican…
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d5feb0193237fecd56d071dc92bb6b06 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cannock-Chase | Cannock Chase | Cannock Chase
Cannock Chase, district, administrative and historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England. Cannock town is the administrative centre.
The southern portion of the Staffordshire coalfield, including the Lea Hall Colliery, is in the district. Coal mining and metalworking traditionally dominated the... |
77b2e1ca4e0f8b9421d9d178dd775b38 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cannon-Mountain | Cannon Mountain | Cannon Mountain
Cannon Mountain (4,186 feet [1,276 metres]) itself, which is 5 miles (8 km) south of Franconia village, has skiing facilities and an aerial tramway to its summit. One of the state’s most famous landmarks, the Old Man of the Mountain (also called the Great Stone…
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The Canopic Way (now Ṭarīq al-Ḥurriyyah) was the principal thoroughfare of the Greek city, running east and west through its centre. Most Ptolemaic and Roman monuments stood nearby. The Canopic Way was intersected at its western end by the Street of the Soma (now Shāriʿ al-Nabī…
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9b69acaf5e4846fef4dfafb2d23da69e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cantabrian-Mountains | Cantabrian Mountains | Cantabrian Mountains
Cantabrian Mountains, Spanish Cordillera Cantábrica, mountain chain generally extending along the northern coast of Spain for approximately 180 miles (300 km). Scenic and well forested (with beeches and maritime pines), the mountains are of geologically similar origin to the Pyrenees, though class... |
70d97148d36f27d180525047f17de6e9 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cantigny | Cantigny | Cantigny
Cantigny, a 500-acre (200-hectare) recreation area, includes gardens, golf courses, the First Division Museum (military history), and the Robert R. McCormick Museum (1896), a home built by newspaper publisher Joseph Medill. Inc. village, 1859; city, 1890. Pop. (2000) 55,416; (2010) 52,894.
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a1d84af2174e0597004b3f186f872ff2 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canton-Mississippi | Canton | Canton
Canton, city, seat (1834) of Madison county, central Mississippi, U.S. The city lies on a low divide between the Pearl and Big Black rivers 20 miles (32 km) north of Jackson. Poultry processing and the manufacture of office furniture are the main industries. It is a market centre for an agricultural region that... |
fb3b4251f5b60ef07a0a0bc60320634a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canyon-Lands | Canyon Lands | Canyon Lands
South of it is the Canyon Lands, so named because it is a plateau dissected by many deep canyons. It has an indefinite border with the Navajo section, a region with fewer, less deep canyons in Arizona, New Mexico, and small parts of Utah and Colorado. The Grand Canyon section…
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95f8b8cecf9c91b1590adb28b4d4f7b1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Canyonlands-National-Park | Canyonlands National Park | Canyonlands National Park
Canyonlands National Park, desert wilderness of water-eroded sandstone spires, canyons, and mesas, with Archaic Native American petroglyphs, in southeastern Utah, U.S., just southwest of Moab and Arches National Park. Established in 1964, it occupies an area of 527 square miles (1,365 square ... |
77660ba9f6e9fdc620551116866b58f6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cap-Rock-Escarpment | Cap Rock Escarpment | Cap Rock Escarpment
…North Central Plains lies the Caprock Escarpment, an outcropping of rock that stretches to the north and south for about 200 miles (320 km). Beyond that escarpment lies the third largest region of Texas, the High Plains country, and to the south lies the Trans-Pecos region.
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a823e3b966cb810f17b2bbcc1c482e8e | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Catoche | Cape Catoche | Cape Catoche
Cape Catoche, Spanish Cabo Catoche, cape on the Caribbean Sea, on a bar off the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, in the northeastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula (q.v.). Cape Catoche is said to have been the first Mexican land visited by Spaniards, in 1517. It is separated from western Cuba, approximately ... |
4063495c431a2b753def27db97dddfbe | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Dezhnyov | Cape Dezhnyov | Cape Dezhnyov
Cape Dezhnyov, also spelled Dezhnëv, Russian Mys Dezhnyova, English East Cape, cape, extreme eastern Russia. Cape Dezhnyov is the easternmost point of the Chukchi Peninsula and of the entire Eurasian landmass. It is separated from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska by the Bering Strait. The Russian name was ... |
23e2afdef6f526c01194f51f7e902757 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Diamond | Cape Diamond | Cape Diamond
Cape Diamond, French Cap Diamant, promontory in Québec region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is part of the city of Quebec and is located west of the confluence of the St. Charles and St. Lawrence rivers. It is the highest point in the headland (333 feet [102 m]) and is crowned by the Citadel, a fo... |
757b15d9be6b2dc6f4c2a957e1e7733a | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Horn | Cape Horn | Cape Horn
Cape Horn, Spanish Cabo de Hornos, steep rocky headland on Hornos Island, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, southern Chile. Located off the southern tip of mainland South America, it was named Hoorn for the birthplace of the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, who rounded it in 1616. False Cape Horn (F... |
bea565606e2692e631a51ecba95260f8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-May-county-New-Jersey | Cape May | Cape May
Cape May, county, extreme southern New Jersey, U.S. It consists of a low-lying peninsula bordered by Delaware Bay and West Creek to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Tuckahoe River and Great Egg Harbor to the north. Offshore sandbars along the eastern coast create numerous bay inlets including... |
9ae3ae0eb6974850fe58ca999381cc21 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Morris-Jesup | Cape Morris Jesup | Cape Morris Jesup
Cape Morris Jesup, cape, one of the world’s northernmost points of land, in the Peary Land region, at the northernmost extremity of Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole. It was reached in 1900 by Robert E. Peary, the American Arctic explorer, and was named for Morris... |
6c5b18bfada9f647db79e1ba9ac6e033 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Playhouse | Cape Playhouse | Cape Playhouse
The Cape Playhouse is a restored colonial meetinghouse and one of the best-known summer-stock theatres in the eastern United States. Historic sites include the Josiah Dennis Manse (1736) and Jericho House (1801). Area 21 square miles (54 square km). Pop. (2000) 15,973; (2010) 14,207.
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a9d7012b97884172ff62fa2079e97154 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Province | Cape Province | Cape Province
Cape Province, also called Cape of Good Hope, Afrikaans Kaapprovinsie or Kaap die Goeie Hoop, former province of South Africa, occupying the southern extremity of the African continent. Prior to the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the area was known as the Cape Colony. Cape Province c... |
5c228dbe9a4f7c9d32ff66d0cbd972ec | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-San-Antonio | Cape San Antonio | Cape San Antonio
Cape San Antonio, Spanish Cabo San Antonio, cape, westernmost Cuba. Forming the western extremity of the island, its point juts out between the Gulf of Guanahacabibes on the north and Corrientes Bay on the south. Approximately 150 mi (240 km) to the west, across the Yucatán Channel, lies Cape Catoche,... |
1d6458ad981dbf4df7fee2009c16b6b3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Scott-Provincial-Park | Cape Scott Provincial Park | Cape Scott Provincial Park
…along the west coast, and Cape Scott Provincial Park (58 square miles [151 square km]) is at its northwestern tip.
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3ca9091fe956b8ba517456a17a981659 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Verde-Basin-Atlantic-Ocean | Cape Verde Basin | Cape Verde Basin
Cape Verde Basin, Portuguese Bacia Do Cabo Verde, submarine depression in the Atlantic Ocean that rises to meet the submerged Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge to the west and the western African coast to the east. With the contiguous Canary Basin (north), it forms an arc that swings around the western coast o... |
892dccae7efd64f197b171ffd70a16a0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cape-Verde-Peninsula | Cape Verde Peninsula | Cape Verde Peninsula
Cape Verde Peninsula, French Presqu’île du Cap Vert, peninsula in west-central Senegal that is the westernmost point of the African continent. Formed by a combination of volcanic offshore islands and a land bridge produced by coastal currents, it projects into the Atlantic Ocean, bending back to t... |
072d55c2b40c2d163b12e3d26d947bd1 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Capernaum | Capernaum | Capernaum
Capernaum, Douai Capharnaum, modern Kefar Naḥum, ancient city on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. It was Jesus’ second home and, during the period of his life, a garrison town, an administrative centre, and a customs station. Jesus chose his disciples Peter, Andrew, and Matthew from Cape... |
8546e513123614e76988ee17a8c0b055 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cappadocia | Cappadocia | Cappadocia
Cappadocia, ancient district in east-central Anatolia, situated on the rugged plateau north of the Taurus Mountains, in the centre of present-day Turkey. The boundaries of the region have varied throughout history. Cappadocia’s landscape includes dramatic expanses of soft volcanic rock, shaped by erosion in... |
255e54355f3837b73e2180b3d1825241 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cappella-Colleoni | Cappella Colleoni | Cappella Colleoni
…rebuilt 1483 and 1639; the Cappella (chapel) Colleoni (1470–76), by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, with ceiling frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (begun 1137, rebuilt 14th and 15th centuries); the baptistery (1340); and the Palazzo della Ragione (rebuilt 1538–54). ... |
7cd544add0444c690b9dcdab7b0224b7 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carabobo | Carabobo | Carabobo
Carabobo, estado (state), northwestern Venezuela, bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north and by the states of Aragua (east), Guárico and Cojedes (south), and Yaracuy (west). It was named in commemoration of the battle that proved decisive in the Venezuelan independence movement At the time the Spaniards co... |
28e5f31022c3afd26585577d76307c48 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caracol | Caracol | Caracol
Caracol, major prehistoric Mayan city, now an archaeological site in west-central Belize, 47 miles (76 km) southeast of the Guatemalan Mayan city of Tikal. The name is Spanish (meaning “snail”); the original Mayan name is unknown.
Discovered in 1938 by a woodcutter, the ruins were first tentatively surveyed by... |
ca5a55162fefb528a967d79fa07901b6 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caras-Severin | Caraș-Severin | Caraș-Severin
Caraș-Severin, județ (county), southwestern Romania. It is bounded on the south and west by Serbia. The Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians), including the ranges of Semenic, Cernei, and Poiana Rușcă, rise above settlement areas in the intermontane valleys. The eastward-flowing Danube River and its ... |
d9756e14bae44aa923d3fdc93a25bab8 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carbet-Mountains | Carbet Mountains | Carbet Mountains
Carbet Mountains, also called Carbet Peaks, French Pitons du Carbet, volcanic mountain mass on the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the Lesser Antilles. The peaks are about 3.5 miles (6 km) from the west coast, standing between Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France. They rise to 3,924 feet (1,196 metres) ... |
e5e2ac8d586a8710d661790dcf8844dd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carcassonne | Carcassonne | Carcassonne
Carcassonne, town, capital of Aude département, Occitanie region, southwestern France, southeast of Toulouse, near the eastward bend of the Aude River, which divides the city into two towns, the Ville Basse and the Cité. The Cité has the finest remains of medieval fortifications in Europe.
On the summit of... |
1bd9998b726103309b4c5f2af85fb7cd | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cardiff-Castle | Cardiff Castle | Cardiff Castle
In 1865, at Cardiff Castle in Wales, he began to interpret medieval architecture with merry and decorative freedom. The interiors of this building and of Castell Coch, built 10 years later, are a riot of decoration. His friend Edward Godwin, on the other hand, was more restrained; he…
Cardiff Castle beca... |
a6cfda9cc6caa4db2a146da9885f3d74 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Cardiff-Wales | Cardiff | Cardiff
Cardiff, Welsh Caerdydd, city and capital of Wales. Cardiff exists as both a city and a county within the Welsh unitary authority system of local government. It is located within the historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg) on the Bristol Channel at the mouth of the River Taff, about 150 miles (240 km) west of... |
1a4d799114070f6bd7397cb18ae23795 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Caris-River | Caris River | Caris River
Suatá (Zuata), Pao, and Caris rivers, which enter on the left bank, and the Cuchivero and Caura rivers, which join the main stream on the right. So much sediment is carried by these rivers that islands often form at the mouths. The Caroní River, one of the Orinoco’s largest…
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68a8dda10e53148adf5764edb4cd8dc3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carisbrooke | Carisbrooke | Carisbrooke
Carisbrooke, locality on the Isle of Wight, historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies just southwest of Newport. The locality’s chief landmark is a great castle on a steep hill that shows three main periods of building—Roman, Norman, and Elizabethan. The remnants of a 3rd-century-ce Roman fort became ... |
e68f426b86c4d71462858835dac796b3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carletonville | Carletonville | Carletonville
Carletonville, town, principal mining centre of the Far West Witwatersrand goldfields, North-West province, north-central South Africa, west of Johannesburg. Carletonville was originally an unplanned settlement established between 1937 and 1957 as various companies developed their gold-mining claims. In ... |
4ef01dbf9b7e9735d7ff19adc58e999f | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carlow-county-Ireland | Carlow | Carlow
Carlow, Irish Ceatharlach (“The Four Lakes”), county in the province of Leinster, southeastern Ireland. The town of Carlow, in the northwest, is the county seat.
One of the smallest Irish counties, Carlow is bounded by Counties Kildare (north), Wicklow and Wexford (east), and Kilkenny and Laoighis (west). In th... |
b5280e080af4cc9e0db5c5a918248c64 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carmel-Church | Carmel Church | Carmel Church
…or rebuilt, but the 14th-century Carmel (Carmo) Church was left as it was. Looming from its hilltops over the Baixa, the roofless Gothic shell was converted into an archaeological museum, while its cloister served as the barracks for the National Republican Guard, a paramilitary security force. The Palac... |
bb6f0e203aff8de74e39a4de8c812b48 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carnac | Carnac | Carnac
Carnac, village, Morbihan département, Bretagne (Brittany) region, western France, near the Atlantic coast, just southwest of Auray. It is the site of more than 3,000 prehistoric stone monuments. The single stone menhirs and multistone dolmens were hewn from local granite, now worn by time and weather and sheat... |
6fc9cc794b68e55f12d6370c29551149 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carnarvon-National-Park | Carnarvon National Park | Carnarvon National Park
…feature of the 969-square-mile (2,510-square-kilometre) Carnarvon National Park (1932), which also offers caves containing Aboriginal art and highly diverse plant and wildlife.
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4a822a08243bc6e7023468772ccf3828 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carol-Lake | Carol Lake | Carol Lake
…the surrounding mining region (Carol Lake), one of Canada’s largest producers of iron ore concentrates and pellets. The community has an airport and has rail connections with Schefferville, Quebec, 124 miles (200 km) north, and with Sept-Îles, Quebec, the ore transshipment port, 200 miles (320 km) south at ... |
831a87485aba41d8177a501534737ab0 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carora | Carora | Carora
Carora, city, west-central Lara estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. It is situated on the Morere, an affluent of the Tocuyo River, west of Barquisimeto. Carora lies at 1,128 feet (344 metres) above sea level.
The city has a fine parish church, a Franciscan convent, and a hermitage. Carora was originally set... |
18ad92934aea58d216ecfe9bb039f4e3 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carpentaria-Basin | Carpentaria Basin | Carpentaria Basin
…by three major basins, the Carpentaria Basin, the Eyre Basin, and the Murray Basin. The Carpentaria and Eyre basins are separated by such minute residual relief elements as Mount Brown and Mount Fort Bowen in northwestern Queensland. The Wilcannia threshold divides the Eyre and Murray basins, and the... |
56554a962cc3e92904c233b4c1c34e3c | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carrara | Carrara | Carrara
Carrara, city, Massa-Carrara provincia (province), Toscana (Tuscany) regione (region), north-central Italy. It lies along the Carrione River in the foothills of the Apuan Alps, just northwest of Massa and east of La Spezia. Acquired by the Malaspina family in 1428, it constituted, with Massa, the principality ... |
cb8c9f207751a8fb2c2fc484653f8881 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Carrickfergus-district-Northern-Ireland | Carrickfergus | Carrickfergus
The former Carrickfergus district was bordered by the former districts of Newtownabbey to the west and Larne to the north. Its northwestern section is hilly terrain, sloping southward to the flat shores of Belfast Lough. Salt is mined at the village of Eden, northeast of Carrickfergus town,…
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