Entries starting with C
- Cabo Verde: Atlantic Archipelago NationCabo Verde is a ten-island volcanic archipelago off West Africa, independent since 1975 and known for morna music, Creole culture, and stable democracy.
- Cairo: History, Geography and Key Facts About Egypt’s CapitalCairo is Egypt's capital, founded by the Fatimids in the 10th century on the Nile near ancient Memphis.
- Cambodia: Kingdom of AngkorCambodia is a Southeast Asian kingdom of about 17.9 million people, home to Angkor, the largest religious monument complex in the world.
- Cameroon: Africa in MiniatureCameroon is a bilingual Central African republic spanning rainforest, savanna, and coastline, nicknamed 'Africa in miniature' for its geographic and cultural diversity.
- Canada: World’s Second-Largest CountryCanada is the world's second-largest country, a federal parliamentary democracy spanning North America with about 41 million people and two official languages.
- Cancun: Mexico’s Planned Resort CityCancun is a purpose-built resort city on Mexico's Caribbean coast, planned and constructed by the Mexican government starting in 1970.
- Cape Town: History, Table Mountain and Key Facts About South Africa’s Legislative CapitalCape Town is South Africa's legislative capital, founded in 1652 beneath Table Mountain at the southwestern tip of Africa.
- Carbon sinkA carbon sink is anything that absorbs and stores more carbon than it releases, such as the ocean, forests or soils.
- Carry tradeA carry trade borrows money in a currency with low interest rates and invests it where rates are higher, aiming to keep the difference.
- Casablanca: History, Geography and Key Facts About Morocco’s Economic HubCasablanca is Morocco's largest city and economic capital, a major Atlantic port built up mainly in the 20th century.
- Catalyst (chemistry)A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed and without changing the reaction's overall energy balance.
- Central African Republic: Geography, History and Key FactsA landlocked central African country of savanna and Congo Basin rainforest, shaped by chronic conflict, deep poverty, and a major UN peacekeeping mission.
- Central bankA central bank is a public institution that manages a country's currency and money supply, sets key interest rates and oversees banking stability.
- Chad: A Landlocked Sahel-Sahara NationChad is a landlocked north-central African nation spanning Sahara, Sahel, and savanna, shaped by Lake Chad, the Ennedi Massif, and a fragile post-2021 political transition.
- Chengdu: Panda Capital of ChinaCapital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, globally known for giant panda conservation and Sichuan cuisine.
- Chennai: Geography, History, Culture and Key FactsChennai (Madras) is the capital of Tamil Nadu, India, built around the British Fort St. George in 1644.
- Chicago: History, Geography, Culture and Key FactsChicago is the largest city in Illinois and third-largest in the United States, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.
- Chile: South America’s Longest CountryChile is a long, narrow South American country stretching from the Atacama Desert to Patagonia, known globally for Easter Island's Moai statues and copper production.
- China: East Asia’s Largest CountryChina is a vast East Asian nation of roughly 1.4 billion people, the world's second-largest economy and home to the Great Wall.
- Coalition governmentA coalition government is a government formed jointly by two or more political parties, usually when no party won a working majority.
- Cognitive behavioral therapyCognitive behavioral therapy is a structured talking therapy that works on the links between how a person thinks, feels and acts.
- Cognitive loadCognitive load is how much a task demands of working memory at once, and working memory is small, so overloading it stops learning.
- Colombia: South American RepublicColombia is a South American country on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, known for the Andes, Amazon rainforest, coffee, and colonial Cartagena.
- ComorbidityComorbidity means having one or more additional health conditions alongside a main one, at the same time in the same person.
- Comoros: An Indian Ocean ArchipelagoComoros is a small volcanic archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean off East Africa, home to the active Mount Karthala volcano.
- Confidence intervalA confidence interval is a range around an estimate that is likely to contain the true value, given the method used to produce it.
- Consumer price indexA consumer price index tracks how the prices households pay for a fixed basket of goods and services change over time.
- Copenhagen: History, Geography, Culture and Key FactsCopenhagen is the capital of Denmark, a Scandinavian capital known for the Little Mermaid statue and sustainable urban design.
- Core inflationCore inflation is the inflation rate left after stripping out the most volatile prices, usually food and energy, to show the underlying trend.
- Costa Rica: Geography, History, Government, and Key FactsA Central American republic between Nicaragua and Panama, known for abolishing its military in 1948 and protecting rainforest biodiversity.
- Covalent bondA covalent bond holds two atoms together through shared electrons, creating a dense region of electron charge between their nuclei.
- Croatia: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsCroatia is a Central European and Mediterranean nation on the Adriatic Sea, an EU and eurozone member known for its coastline, islands, and medieval cities.
- Crop rotationCrop rotation is the practice of growing different crops in the same field in a planned sequence from season to season.
- Cruise missileA cruise missile is an unmanned weapon that flies to its target through the atmosphere, powered the whole way like a small aircraft.
- Cuba: Geography, History, Government, and Key FactsCuba is the Caribbean's largest island nation, governed as a one-party socialist state since the 1959 revolution and long subject to a U.S. trade embargo.
- Cyprus: Geography, History, Government, and Key FactsCyprus is an eastern Mediterranean island nation and EU member divided since 1974 between the Republic of Cyprus and a Turkish-Cypriot-administered north.
- Czech Republic: Geography, History, Government and Key FactsA Central European republic formed in 1993, known for Prague's medieval castle complex, EU and NATO membership, and record beer consumption.