CZ, C-Z, C/Z, or Cz may refer to:

Places

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

(ISO 3166 country code CZ) **

.cz .cz is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Czech Republic administered by CZ.NIC. History Until Czechoslovakia was dissolved in 1993, it used the domain '' .cs''.The .cz domain came into effect in January 1993, following the dis ...

, internet country code top-level domain for the Czech Republic *

Casa Zimbabwe Casa Zimbabwe, commonly referred to as CZ, is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California, housing 124 residents. It is the second largest non-apartment style unit of the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC), behind Cloyne Court Hotel. ...

, a student housing unit in Berkeley, California, U.S.

People and characters

Changpeng Zhao Changpeng Zhao ( zh, s=赵长鹏, p=Zhào Chángpéng), commonly known as CZ, is a Chinese-born Canadian businessman. Zhao is the co-founder and former CEO of Binance. He resigned as the CEO in November 2023 after pleading guilty to a money lau ...

, co-founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance * Cz, a character from ''Scrapped Princess''

Businesses, groups, organisations

* C/Z Records, an American record label *

Česká zbrojovka firearms Česká is a municipality and village in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. Česká lies approximately north-west of Brno and south-east of Prague Prague ( ; ) is the ...

(ČZ) **

Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod Česká zbrojovka a.s. (CZ, ), is a Czech Republic, Czech armament manufacturer that is based in Uherský Brod. The company is known for producing service, hunting and sporting firearms. It is owned by the Czech holding company Colt CZ Group, Co ...

, a Czech firearms manufacturer *** CZ-USA, U.S. division **

Česká zbrojovka Strakonice Česká zbrojovka a.s. (ČZ a.s.) is a Czech company producing Desta (forklifts), Desta forklifts and components for the automobile industry, it is a former firearms manufacturer, also known for making ČZ motorcycles. ČZ was established as a br ...

(ČZ a.s.), a Czech manufacturer of forklifts and formerly motorcycles and firearms *

Crvena Zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

, a Serbian football club *

Cizeta Cizeta Automobili SRL was an Italian-American car manufacturer, originally headquartered in Modena, Italy, set up in the late 1980s by Claudio Zampolli, an Italian automotive engineer that previously worked as a test-and-development engineer at ...

, an Italian car manufacturer named for its founder, Claudio Zampolli (C.Z.) *

China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines (branded as China Southern) is a major airline in China, headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong. It is one of the three major airlines in the country, along with Air China and China Eastern Airlines. Established on 1 ...

(IATA airline code CZ)

Science, engineering, technology

Cubic zirconia Cubic zirconia (CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). The synthesized material is hard and usually colorless, but may be made in a variety of different colors. It should not be confused with zircon, which is a zirc ...

, a synthetic gemstone *

Haplogroup CZ (mtDNA) In human mitochondrial genetics, the Haplogroup CZ is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. Origin Haplogroup CZ is a descendant of haplogroup M8 and is a parent to the haplogroups C and Z. The C and Z subclades share a common ancest ...

, in human mitochondrial genetics * Controlled Z gate, a type of

Quantum logic gate In quantum computing and specifically the quantum circuit model of computation, a quantum logic gate (or simply quantum gate) is a basic quantum circuit operating on a small number of qubits. Quantum logic gates are the building blocks of qua ...

* Cz, an EEG electrode site according to the 10-20 system

Brands, products

Long March (rocket family) The Long March rockets are a family of expendable launch system rockets operated by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The rockets are named after the Chinese Red Army's 1934–35 Long March military retreat during the Chin ...

, or Chang Zheng *

Citizendium Citizendium ( ; "the citizens' compendium of everything") is an English language, English-language wiki-based free content, free online encyclopedia launched by Larry Sanger, co-founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia. Larry Sanger had worked as paid ...

, an online encyclopedia project

Other uses

Cz (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. In the list, letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetical order according to their base, e.g. is alphabetised with , not at the end of the alphabet, as it would be in Danish, ...

, in the Polish language * CZ, vehicle registration prefix of

Province of Catanzaro The province of Catanzaro (; Catanzarese: ) is a province of the Calabria region of Italy. The city Catanzaro is both capital of the province and capital of the region of Calabria. The province contains 80 '' comuni'' (: ''comune''). Catanza ...