a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmo; Como (a city and comune, the capital of the province of Como, Lombardy); Como (a province of Lombardy, Italy)
the Côte d'Or département (equivalent of a county) in France’s eastern region Bourgogne (Burgundy); the Côte d'Or chain of hills West of the Saône valley, which the above département was named after
Coele-Syria (an ancient Hellenistic region in modern Syria, referring to the Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains); Coele-Syria (a former province of the Late Roman Empire, in existence from 198 to c. 400 AD)
initialism of diplôme d'études approfondies (a tertiary education degree higher than a master's, but lower than a doctorate); initialism of défibrillateur externe automatisé (“automated external defibrillator”): AED