Google Maps™ driving directions home »
CACM
The Central American Common Market (CACM) was established on 13 December 1960, collapsed in 1969, and reinstated in 1991 to promote a Central American Common Market.
Glossary
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Calypso
A music style began in Trinidad and combined musical elements from Africa, Spain, and the Caribbean.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Cambodia
Location: Southeast Asia Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1953 / 1953 Capital city: Phnom Penh Population: 15.1 million / 222 people per sq mile (86 people per sq km) Total land area: 69,900 square miles (181,040 square km) Language(s) spoken: Khmer (official language), French, Chinese, …
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Cameroon
Location: Central Africa Official name: Republic of Cameroon Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1960 / 1961 Capital city: Yaoundé Population: 20 million / 111 people per sq mile (43 people per sq km) Total land area: 183,567 square miles (475,400 square km) Language(s) spoken: Bamileke, Fang, Fulani, French (official language), …
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Canada
Location: North America Official name: Canada Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1867 / 1949 Capital city: Ottawa Population: 33.9 million / 10 people per sq mile (4 people per sq km) Total land area: 3,855,171 square miles (9,984,670 square km) Language(s) spoken: English (official language), French (official language), Chinese, Italian, …
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Canadian shield
A northern part of the interior lowlands is a rocky, flat region covering nearly two million square miles and an encircling Hudson bay.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Canopy
The area encompassing the tops of the trees in a rain forest, about 150 feet above the ground.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Cao Dai
A nationalistic Vietnamese sect, officially established in 1926, draws practices and precepts from Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Catholicism.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Cape Verde
Location: Atlantic Ocean Official name: Republic of Cape Verde Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1975 / 1975 Capital city: Praia Population: 500,000 / 321 people per sq mile (124 people per sq km) Total land area: 1557 square miles (4033 square km) Language(s) spoken: Portuguese Creole, Portuguese (official language) Main …
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Capitalism
An economic system based on private ownership of property and free and competitive conditions for business.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Capoeira
Martial art and dance were developed in Brazil by Angolans taken there by the Portuguese from Africa.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is the no. 7th contiguous open water surface on earth. It has a huge, 1,049,500 square mile (2,718,200 square km) area and 8,685 square feet (2,647 square meters) average depth. The Caribbean Sea’s greatest known depth is 22,788 feet (6,946 meters), which can be found at Off Cayman Islands.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Carrying capacity
The number of organisms a piece of land can support without negative effects.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Carter Doctrine
President Jimmy Carter’s declaration, following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 that the United States would use any means necessary to defend its vital interests in the Persian Gulf Region.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Carthage
One of the great empires of ancient Africa is situated on a triangular peninsula on the Gulf of Tunis on the Mediterranean seacoast.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Cartogram
A special map in which an area’s shape and size are defined by the population’s explicit characteristics, economy, or distribution of any stated product.
Google Maps™ driving directions home »
Cartography
The craft of designing and making maps, the basic language of geography.