Submitted Place Names Starting with C

ČAD(Country)Croatian
Croatian form of Chad.

CAIRNS(Settlement)English
City in Australia

CALIFORNIA(Political Subdivision)Spanish, English
Name of a state in the United States, and two states in Mexico. California was once believed to be an island, and was named after the fictional island, California, in Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo's novel 'Las Sergas de Esplandián'... [more]

CALLIFAE(Settlement)English
From the name of a town in ancient Italy, of uncertain origin. It was mentioned only by the Roman historian Livy, and may correspond to the village Calvisi, at the foot of the Monte Matese.

CAMBODIA(Country)English
From an Anglicization of the French Cambodge, which comes from Khmer កម្ពុជា (Kampuchea), in turn derived from Sanskrit कम्बोजदेश (Kambujadeśa), composed of देश (deśá) "province, country, kingdom" and कम्बोज (kāmboja) which refers to the foundation myths of the first ancient Khmer kingdom and the Kamboja tribe of Iron Age India... [more]

CAMBRIDGESHIRE(Political Subdivision)English (British)
Cambridgeshire is a county in East England.

CAMEROON(Country)English
The name of the Country in Central Africa. Cameroon, on the Gulf of Guinea, is a Central African country of varied terrain and wildlife. Its inland capital, Yaoundé, and its biggest city, the seaport Douala, are transit points to ecotourism sites as well as beach resorts like Kribi – near the Chutes de la Lobé waterfalls, which plunge directly into the sea – and Limbe, where the Limbe Wildlife Centre houses rescued primates.

CARDIFF(Settlement)Welsh
The capital city of Wales. Cardiff derives from the city's Welsh name Caerdydd, which in turn was derived from the city's Old Welsh name Caerdyf (In Welsh f (v) is often mutated to dd (th)).... [more]

CARIA(Region)Ancient Greek
Caria was an ancient province near the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor.

CARIBBEAN(Region)English
The name of the Region. The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America.

CARPERBY(Settlement)English
A village in Yorkshire, England. The second element is Old Norse -byr, 'farm'. The first element is possibly the Old Gaelic personal name Cairpre. This seems to indicate a farm of an Irish or Scottish Viking, who settled in England... [more]

CASABLANCA(Settlement)English, Spanish
Means "white house", from Portuguese casa meaning "house" and branca meaning "white". The present-day spelling follows the Spanish form (casa "house"; blanca "white"), however, because of the Portuguese Kingdom joining the Spanish Kingdom... [more]

CAUCASUS(Region & Mountain)English
English form of the Greek Καύκασος (Kaúkasos) of unknown meaning, perhaps derived from Scythian *χrohu-käsi meaning "ice-shining" or "white with snow", of Greek origin meaning "seagull's mountain", or from a compound word meaning "high mountain"... [more]

CELILO(Body of Water)Native American
Means: echo of falling water. A famous waterfall used as a Native American fishing ground.

ČEŠKA(Country)Croatian
Croatian name for the Czech Republic.

CEYLON(Country)English
Previous name of the country Sri Lanka. The name Ceylon most likely traces its roots back to the Sanskrit Sinha, meaning "lion". As lions are not native to Sri Lanka, another possible interpretation of the name is "lion-like man" or "hero".

CHAMPA(Country)Champa
Located in south and central Vietnam from the 7th century through 1832.

CHAMPAGNE(Region)French
French region famous for its luxury sparkling wine.... [more]

CHANTILLY(Settlement)French
From the name of a town in France near Paris, ultimately derived from the Gallo-Roman name Cantilius. The city gave its name to a type of delicate lace originally made there.

CHARDONNAY(Settlement)French
The name of a famous village for the white wine produced here. Means "a place of thistles" from the latin cardonnacum.

CHARLESTON(Settlement)English
Place name meaning "Charles's town".

CHARLOTTE(Settlement)English
Name of a city in North Carolina, named in honor of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who had become the Queen of Great Britain just seven years before the town's incorporation.

CHĂVASH EN(Political Subdivision)Chuvash
Chuvash form of Chuvashia.

CHECHNYA(Political Subdivision)Russian, English
Derived from Russian Чечня (Chechnya), which is possibly from Kabardian shashan with an unknown meaning. The term "Chechen" was first seen in Arabic texts in the 8th century. Chechnya (known as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria during the Chechen secession from Russia in the 1990s) is a Russian republic located in the Caucasus.

CHERAGH(Settlement)Persian
This is the name of a village in Lorestan Province in western Iran. This is also used as a place name element (first or last) in other villages across Iran.... [more]

CHERKESIYA(Region)Russian
Russian form of Circassia.

CHEVIOT(Mountain)English
The name of a mountain and the surrounding mountains on the Anglo-Scottish border. The name is thought to be Celtic and to derive from Brythonic *ceμ-, *cejn 'ridge, spine' (Welsh chefn, 'back, ridge'), and -ed, which might have meant 'having the quality of-'.

CHICAGO(Settlement)English
Name of a city in Illinois, from town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of Algonquian sheka:ko:heki "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place".

CHIQUINQUIRA(Settlement)Spanish
the name of a town in venezuela

CHUKOTKA(Political Subdivision)Russian, English
Derived from the Russian name Чукчи (Chukchi), referring to the native people who originally inhabited the area. The word Chukchi is derived from Chukchi Chauchu meaning "rich in reindeer", used by the Reindeer Chukchi people to distinguish themselves from the Maritime Chukchi (the Anqallyt meaning "sea people")... [more]

CHUVASHIA(Political Subdivision)English
Derived from the name Chuvash, referring to the indigenous Turkic ethnic group originally inhabiting the area. The etymology of the name Chuvash is disputed; there are three main theories of its origin... [more]

CHUVASHIYA(Political Subdivision)Russian
Russian form of Chuvashia.

CIṄKAPPŪR(Country)Tamil
Tamil form of Singapore.

ČILE(Country)Croatian
Croatian form of Chile.

ÇIN(Country)Turkish
Means China in Turkish.

CIPAR(Country)Croatian
Croatian form of Cyprus.

CIRCASSIA(Region)English
Derived from a a Latinization of the name Cherkess (spelled as Çerkes in modern Turkish), which is the Turkic name for the Adyghe people, the indigenous people that inhabited the area... [more]

CLADDAGH(Settlement)Irish, English
The name of an ancient village in Ireland, where the tradition of the Claddagh ring developed.

COLORADO(Political Subdivision)English (American)
Name of a state in the United States, named after the Colorado river, from Spanish colo + "colored" rado "reddish", "ruddy".

CONNECTICUT(Political Subdivision)English (American)
Name of a state in the United States, from the name of the Connecticut river, from Algonquian quinnitukqut "at the long tidal river," from kwen "long" + ehtekw "tidal river" + enk "place".

CONSTANȚA(Settlement)Romanian
This is the name of a romanian city which is also the biggest port in Romania. It's greek name is Tomis.

COPENHAGEN(Settlement)English
English form of København.

COQUET(River)English
A river in Northumberland, England. Its name originates from words of a local Brythonic-Celtic language, equivalent to the Welsh coched, meaning 'red, brown'.

COREEA(Country)Romanian
Romanian form of Korea.

CORSICA(Island)English
Mediterranean island where Napoleon Bonaparte was born.

COSTARICA(Country)Spanish
The name of the Country in Central America. Costa Rica is a rugged, rainforested Central American country with coastlines on the Caribbean and Pacific. Though its capital, San Jose, is home to cultural institutions like the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, Costa Rica is known for its beaches, volcanoes, and biodiversity... [more]

CRAWFORDJOHN(Settlement)Scottish
A village in Southern Scotland. It's name is of Scots origin and means 'Crow's ford of John'. See Crawford.

CRIMEA(Political Subdivision & Region)English
Derived from Crimean Tatar Qırım (today known as Stary Krym), the old name for the city that served as the capital of the province during the Golden Horde. The meaning of "Qırım" is uncertain, though it is either of Greek or Turkic origin... [more]

CRNA GORA(Country)Montenegrin, Croatian
Montenegrin and Croatian form of Montenegro.

CUBA(Country)English
From the Taíno language. The exact meaning of the name is unclear but it may be translated either as 'where fertile land is abundant' (cubao), or 'great place' (coabana). Authors who believe that Christopher Columbus was Portuguese state that Cuba was named by Columbus for the town of Cuba in the district of Beja in Portugal.

CUMBERLAND(Region)English
A historical English county, covering the Northern half of modern-day Cumbria. It derives from the Brythonic combrogi, meaning 'fellow-countrymen'.

CUMBERNAULD(Settlement)Scottish
A town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The name in its present form is most likely derived from Gaelic comar nan allt meaning 'meeting of the waters'. However, early forms containing Cumyr- hint at a Cumbric predecessor derived possibly from Common Brittonic *cömber-ïn-alt (Welsh cymer-yn-allt), perhaps meaning 'confluence at the hill'.

CUZCO(Political Subdivision)Quechua, Spanish (Latin American)
The name is said to mean "World's navel"

CYPRUS(Country)English
The name of the Country in the Middle East. The Republic of Cyprus occupies the southern part of the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. The island (and capital city Nicosia) is divided with Turkey to the north... [more]