Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “Ca...-Cap...-”
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor for office and studio.

Cádiz, a city is southwestern Spain, is an important port on the Atlantic coast, just northwest of the Strait of Gibraltar. Cadiz is built on a narrow spit of land that limits the population growth.

Cadiz, the most ancient city of western Europe, began as a Phoenician outpost. The city has been under the control of the Carthagians, the Romans, the Visigoths, and the Moors. There is speculation that Tartessos, an ancient culture in the area of Andalusia, lost its harbor city to flooding of the Guadalquiver River, and Cadiz served as the new trading center.

Christopher Columbus began his second and fourth voyages from Cadiz, as did the doomed Spanish Armada.

Most Ancient European Towns Network: Argos, Beziers, Cadiz, Colchester, Cork, Evora, Maastricht, Roskilde, Tongeren, Worms.

Illinois is home to what was once one of the greatest cities of the world, Cahokia. The Mississippians who lived here were accomplished builders who erected a wide variety of structures from practical homes for everyday living to monumental public works that have maintained their grandeur for centuries. Cahokia was larger than London in AD 1250.

• Cahokia Mounds (IL): America's First City
• Ohio Valley Poster Map

Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the second largest city in the Muslim World, the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world (2011). Cairo is on the Nile River just before it begins fanning out into the Nile Delta.

Present day Cairo was founded in the 10th century AD around ancient Egyptian capitals from millennian earlier.

• pyramid posters

Calais, in Northern France, overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, making it the closest French town to England (21 miles).

In 1988, Calgary, Alberta, became the first Canadian city to host the Olympic Winter Games.

Canberra, Australia's national capital, is the nation's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall.

Canberra is a planned city, and was sited between Sydney and Melbourne. The architect was Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin.

Canterbury is an historic cathedral city in England.

Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 which led to the cathedral becoming a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide. The pilgrimage provided the theme for Geoffery Chaucer's 14th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales.

Famous people associated with Caterbury include Saint Anselm, Thomas Ingoldsby, Christopher Marlowe.

Cape Town and Table Mountain
South Africa

• Africa posters
• Nelson Mandela posters