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Cross-Reference List of Geographic Names

C

Name

Entry in The World Factbook

Latitude
(deg min)

Longitude
(deg min)

Cabinda (province) Angola 5 33 S 12 12 E
Cabo Verde (local name for Cape Verde) Cape Verde 16 00 N 24 00 W
Cabot Strait Atlantic Ocean 47 20 N 59 30 W
Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands 21 56 N 71 58 W
Cairo (capital) Egypt 30 03 N 31 15 E
California, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 28 00 N 112 00 W
Cameroun (local name for Cameroon) Cameroon 6 00 N 12 00 E
Campbell Island New Zealand 52 33 S 169 09 E
Campeche, Bay of Atlantic Ocean 20 00 N 94 00 W
Canal Zone (former name for US possessions in Panama) Panama 9 00 N 79 45 W
Canarias Sea Atlantic Ocean 28 00 N 16 00 W
Canary Islands Spain 28 00 N 15 30 W
Canberra (capital) Australia 35 17 S 149 08 E
Cancun (city) Mexico 21 10 N 86 50 W
Canton (city; now Guangzhou) China 23 06 N 113 16 E
Canton Island (Kanton Island) Kiribati 2 49 S 171 40 W
Cape Juby (region; former name for Southern Morocco) Morocco 27 53 N 12 58 W
Cape of Good Hope (cape; also alternate name for Cape Province of South Africa) South Africa 34 15 S 18 25 E
Cape Province (region; former name for Northern, Western, and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa) South Africa 31 30 S 22 30 E
Cape Town (legislative capital) South Africa 33 57 S 18 28 W
Caracas (capital) Venezuela 10 30 N 66 56 W
Cargados Carajos Shoals Mauritius 16 25 S 59 38 E
Caribbean Sea Atlantic Ocean 15 00 N 73 00 W
Caroline Islands Federated States of Micronesia, Palau 7 30 N 148 00 E
Carpatho-Ukraine (region; former name for Zakarpats'ka oblast') Ukraine 48 22 N 23 32 E
Carpentaria, Gulf of Pacific Ocean 14 00 S 139 00 E
Castries (capital) Saint Lucia 14 01 N 61 00 W
Catalonia (region) Spain 42 00 N 2 00 E
Cato Island Australia 23 15 S 155 32 E
Caucasus (region) Russia 42 00 N 45 00 E
Cayenne (capital) French Guiana 4 56 N 52 20 W
Celebes (island) Indonesia 2 00 S 121 00 E
Celebes Sea Pacific Ocean 3 00 N 122 00 E
Celtic Sea Atlantic Ocean 51 00 N 6 30 W
Central African Empire (former name for Central African Republic) Central African Republic 7 00 N 21 00 E
Ceram (Seram) Sea Pacific Ocean 2 30 S 129 30 E
Ceska Republika (local name for Czech Republic) Czech Republic 49 45 N 15 30 E
Ceskoslovensko (former local name for Czechoslovakia) Czech Republic, Slovakia 49 00 N 17 30 E
Ceuta (city) Spain 35 53 N 5 19 W
Ceylon (former name for Sri Lanka) Sri Lanka 7 00 N 81 00 E
Chafarinas, Islas (island) Spain 35 12 N 2 26 W
Chagos Archipelago (Oil Islands) British Indian Ocean Territory 6 00 S 71 30 E
Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench) Pacific Ocean 11 22 N 142 36 E
Channel Islands Guernsey, Jersey 49 20 N 2 20 W
Charlotte Amalie (capital) Virgin Islands 18 21 N 64 56 W
Chatham Islands New Zealand 44 00 S 176 30 W
Chechnya (region; also Chechnia) Russia 43 15 N 45 40 E
Cheju Strait Pacific Ocean 34 00 N 126 30 E
Cheju-do (island) Korea, South 33 20 N 126 30 E
Chennai (city ; also Madras) India 13 04 N 80 16 E
Chesterfield Islands (Iles Chesterfield) New Caledonia 19 52 S 158 15 E
Chihli, Gulf of (see Bo Hai) Pacific Ocean 38 30 N 120 00 E
Chiloe (island) Chile 42 50 S 74 00 W
China, People's Republic of China 35 00 N 105 00 E
China, Republic of Taiwan 23 30 N 121 00 E
Chisinau (capital) Moldova 47 00 N 28 50 E
Choiseul (island) Solomon Islands 7 05 S 121 00 E
Choson (local name for North Korea) North Korea 40 00 N 127 00 E
Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) Australia 10 25 S 105 39 E
Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean; also Kiritimati) Kiribati 1 52 N 157 20 W
Chukchi Sea Arctic Ocean 69 00 N 171 00 W
Chuuk Islands (Truk Islands) Federated States of Micronesia 7 25 N 151 47 W
Cilicia (region) Turkey 36 50 N 34 30 E
Ciskei (enclave) South Africa 33 00 S 27 00 E
Citta del Vaticano (local name for Vatican City) Holy See 41 54 N 12 27 E
Cochin China (region) Vietnam 11 00 N 107 00 E
Coco, Isla del (island) Costa Rica 5 32 N 87 04 W
Cocos Islands Cocos (Keeling) Islands 12 30 S 96 50 E
Colombo (capital) Sri Lanka 6 56 N 79 51 E
Colon, Archipielago de (Galapagos Islands) Ecuador 0 00 N 90 30 W
Commander Islands (Komandorskiye Ostrova) Russia 55 00 N 167 00 E
Comores (local name for Comoros) Comoros 12 10 S 44 15 E
Con Son (islands) Vietnam 8 43 N 106 36 E
Conakry (capital) Guinea 9 31 N 13 43 W
Confederatio Helvetica (local name for Switzerland) Switzerland 47 00 N 8 00 E
Congo (Brazzaville) (former name for Republic of the Congo) Republic of the Congo 1 00 S 15 00 E
Congo (Leopoldville) (former name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Democratic Republic of the Congo 0 00 N 25 00 E
Constantinople (city; former name for Istanbul) Turkey 41 01 N 28 58 E
Cook Strait Pacific Ocean 41 15 S 174 30 E
Copenhagen (capital) Denmark 55 40 N 12 35 E
Coral Sea Pacific Ocean 15 00 S 150 00 E
Corfu (island) Greece 39 40 N 19 45 E
Corinth (region) Greece 37 56 N 22 56 E
Corisco (island) Equatorial Guinea 0 55 N 9 19 E
Corn Islands (Islas del Maiz) Nicaragua 12 15 N 83 00 W
Corocoro Island Guyana, Venezuela 3 38 N 66 50 W
Corsica  (island; also Corse) France 42 00 N 9 00 E
Cosmoledo Group (island group;  also Atoll de Cosmoledo) Seychelles 9 43 S 47 35 E
Cotonou (former capital) Benin 6 21 N 2 26 E
Cotopaxi (volcano) Ecuador 0 39 S 78 26 W
Courantyne River Guyana, Suriname 5 57 N 57 06 W
Cozumel (island) Mexico 20 30 N 86 55 W
Crete (island) Greece 35 15 N 24 45 E
Crimea (region) Ukraine 45 00 N 34 00 E
Crimean Peninsula Ukraine 45 00 N 34 00 E
Crooked Island Passage Atlantic Ocean 22 55 N 74 35 W
Crozet Islands (Iles Crozet) French Southern and Antarctic Lands 46 30 S 51 00 E
Curacao Netherlands Antilles 12 10 N 69 00 W
Cyclades (island group) Greece 37 00 N 25 10 E
Cyrenaica (region) Libya 31 00 N 22 00 E
Czechoslovakia (former name for the entity that subsequently split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia) Czech Republic, Slovakia 49 00 N 18 00 E

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