CZ

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

Arts and entertainment

• Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, a 2004 computer game in the Counter-Strike series from Vivendi Universal
• Cz, a character in the Japanese novel series and anime Scrapped Princess

Businesses and brands

• C/Z Records, a record label
• Česká Zbrojovka Uhersky Brod (ČZUB), a Czech firearms manufacturer (formerly Československá Státní Zbrojovka Brno)
  • CZ-USA US division of Česká Zbrojovka Uherský Brod, a Czech firearms manufacturer
• Česká Zbrojovka Strakonice, a Czech firearms and motorcycle manufacturer
• Česká Zbrojovka (meaning Czech Armory), trade name of the Czechoslovak firearms manufacturers and state arsenal
• Cizeta, an Italian car manufacturer name for its founder, Claudio Zampolli
• Crvena Zastava, a Serbian arms and automotive manufacturers now known as Zastava Arms
• China Southern Airlines (IATA airline designator], an international airline based in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Places

• Czech Republic, ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code
  • .cz, the Czech Republic's Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD)
• Province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of Italy

In science and technology

• Cubic zirconia, a synthetic gemstone
• Haplogroup CZ, mitochondrial DNA
• Convergence zones of sonar; see Sound propagation
• Chang Zheng, a Chinese family of rockets, see Long March (rocket family)

Other uses

• Cz (digraph), in the Polish language
• California Zephyr, an American passenger train operating between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California
• Canal Zone (disambiguation)
• Casa Zimbabwe, a house of some fame in the UC Berkeley University Students' Cooperative Association
• Chinese zodiac, scheme that relates each year to animal and its reputed attributes
• Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project
• In the U. S. Navy, a short-hand phrase for "communication"