word | | Independence |
| Cuban | Cuba | 20 May 1902 (from Spain 10 December 1898; administered by the US from 1898 to 1902); not acknowledged by the Cuban Government as a day of independence |
| culminating | Spain | ... lasted nearly seven centuries; the small Christian redoubts of the north began the reconquest almost immediately, culminating in the seizure of Granada in 1492; this event completed the unification of several kingdoms ... |
| current | Japan | 3 May 1947 (current constitution adopted as amendment to Meiji Constitution); notable earlier dates: 660 B.C. (traditional date of the founding of the nation by Emperor JIMMU); 29 November 1890 (Meiji Constitution ... |
| current | United Kingdom | 12 April 1927 (Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act establishes current name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); notable earlier dates: 927 (minor English kingdoms united); 3 March 1284 ... |
| Cypriots | Cyprus | 16 August 1960 (from the UK); note - Turkish Cypriots proclaimed self-rule on 13 February 1975 and independence in 1983, but these proclamations are only recognized by Turkey |
| Czech | Czech Republic | 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia); note - although 1 January is the day the Czech Republic came into being, the Czechs generally consider 28 October 1918, the ... |
| Czech | Slovakia | 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia) |
| Czechoslovakia | Czech Republic | 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia); note - although 1 January is the day the Czech Republic came into being, the Czechs generally consider 28 October 1918, the ... |
| Czechoslovakia | Slovakia | 1 January 1993 (Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia) |
| Czechs | Czech Republic | ... Czech Republic and Slovakia); note - although 1 January is the day the Czech Republic came into being, the Czechs generally consider 28 October 1918, the day the former Czechoslovakia declared its independence ... |
| d'Urgel | Andorra | 1278 (formed under the joint sovereignty of the French Count of Foix and the Spanish Bishop of Seu d'Urgel) |