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Cuenca
proper noun
Cuenca (a province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; capital: Cuenca); Cuenca (a city in Cuenca, Spain); Cuenca (a city in Ecuador)
Cuernavaca
proper noun
Cuernavaca (a city in Morelos, Mexico).; Cuernavaca (a municipality of Morelos, Mexico; capital: Cuernavaca).
Cuerno de África
proper noun
Horn of Africa (a peninsula in East Africa)
Cuerpo de Paz
proper noun
Peace Corps (US volunteerism agency)
Cuesco Cabrera
proper noun
The personification of a yuppie
Cuesta
proper noun
a toponymic surname, Cuesta
Cueto
proper noun
a male given name; a surname; a town in Holguín, Cuba
Cueva
proper noun
a surname
Cuevas
proper noun
a habitational surname
Cuisnahuat
proper noun
a town in Sonsonate department, El Salvador
Culebra
proper noun
an island and municipality of Puerto Rico
Culebrita
proper noun
an island of the municipality of Culebra, Puerto Rico
Culiacán
proper noun
Culiacan (the state capital of Sinaloa, Mexico)
Cumbre Vieja
proper noun
a volcano in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, of Macaronesia in the Atlantic, of the Africa
Cundinamarca
proper noun
a department of Colombia
Cupido
proper noun
Cupid (god of love, son of Venus)
Cupido
proper noun
Cupid (reindeer)
Curacautín
proper noun
Curacautín (a commune and city in Curacautín, Chile); a department of Chile
Curanipe
proper noun
Curanipe (a city in Chile)
Curazao
proper noun
Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)
Curaçao
proper noun
obsolete spelling of Curazao
Curepto
proper noun
Curepto (a commune and city in Curepto, Chile); a department of Chile
Curicó
proper noun
Curicó (a city in Chile); Curicó (a province of Chile); Curicó (a region of Chile); a department of Chile; a province of Chile until 1976.
Curitiba
proper noun
Curitiba (a municipality and state capital of Paraná, Brazil)
Curlandia
proper noun
Courland (a region in western Latvia)
Curro
proper noun
a diminutive of the male given name Francisco
Cuscatancingo
proper noun
Cuscatancingo (a town in San Salvador department, El Salvador)
Cuscatlán
proper noun
a department of El Salvador
Cusco
proper noun
alternative spelling of Cuzco; places in Peru:
Custodio
proper noun
a male given name; a surname
Cutervo
proper noun
a province of Cajamarca, Peru; a city, the provincial capital of Cajamarca, Peru
Cuyancúa
proper noun
a legendary creature, believed to have the body of a snake and the head of a pig.
Cuyo
proper noun
Cuyo (a former province of Argentina).; Cuyo (a geographic region of Argentina).
Cuyultitán
proper noun
a town in La Paz department, El Salvador
Cuzco
proper noun
Cuzco
Cuéllar
proper noun
a surname
Cuéllar
proper noun
Cuéllar (a town and municipality of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain)
CyL
proper noun
initialism of Castilla y León (“Castile and León”) (an autonomous community of Spain)
Cybertruck
noun, masculine/feminine
Cybertruck
Cygnus
proper noun
Cygnus (constellation)
Czartoryski
proper noun
a surname from Polish
Cáceres
proper noun
Cáceres (a province of Extremadura, Spain; capital: Cáceres); Cáceres (a city in Extremadura, Spain); a surname; the letter c in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Cádiz
proper noun
Cadiz (a port city and municipality, the provincial capital of Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain); Cadiz (a province of Andalusia, Spain)
Cáhuil
proper noun
Cáhuil (a village in the O'Higgins region, Chile)
Cáller
proper noun
Cagliari (a province of Sardinia, Italy); Cagliari (a port city and comune, the capital of the province of Cagliari and of Sardinia as a whole)
Cámara de los Comunes
proper noun
the House of Commons
Cámara de los Lores
proper noun
the House of Lords
Cámpora
proper noun
a surname
Cáncer
proper noun
Cancer (constellation); Cancer (zodiac sign)
Cándida
proper noun
a female given name, masculine equivalent Cándido
Cándido
proper noun
a male given name, feminine equivalent Cándida
Cápiz
proper noun
Capiz (a province of the Philippines, on northern Panay island; capital and largest city: Roxas); Capiz (a historical province of the Philippines; modern Capiz or Aklan; capital: Capiz); Capiz (a historical municipality of Capiz, Philippines; modern Roxas)
Cárcar
proper noun
Cárcar (a town and municipality of Navarre, Spain); Carcar (a city in Cebu, Philippines)
Cárdenas
proper noun
a surname; a city in Matanzas, Cuba; a town in San Luis Potosí, Mexico; a city in Tabasco, Mexico, west of Villahermosa
Cárpatos
proper noun
Carpathians (mountainous system in Central Europe)
Cáucaso
proper noun
Caucasus
Céfiro
proper noun
Zephyrus
Célebes
proper noun
Celebes, Sulawesi (an island of Greater Sunda, Indonesia)
César
proper noun
Caesar; a male given name from Latin
Cícladas
proper noun
Cyclades (an archipelago of Greece)