Geography containing CA-CZ

Can you guess these places from around the world whose names contain the sequence of letters "ca", "cb", and so on? I have given some crossword-type clues to assist in working out the missing letters of the answers.

For example, the clue "I'm back with former lover in large country" could be M-EX-I-(co).
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Answer
CA
Authorise Mac coding in Latin region of the world (12 letters)
South America
CB
Canadian mountain named after a Shakespearean king (12)
Mount Macbeth
CC
Country which administers most of Western Sahara (7)
Morocco
CD
Australian territory which sounds like a place you'd find a burger joint (but definitely isn't) (15)
McDonald Islands
CE
Nice lad gone astray on very cold island (7)
Iceland
CF
A leg fabric manufactured for surviving a remote plateau of Mauritania (10)
Gleïb Açfar
CG
Blood-sucking bug that's disappeared from Philippine lake (6)
Ticgon
CH
Subdivision located on the Great Plains (12)
Saskatchewan
CI
Ice sheet in Pakistan where lab reverse-engineers Spanish bull (14)
Baltoro Glacier
CJ
Oscar awarded for Jack's contortion routine on Slovenian hill (5)
Očjak
CK
Watery area which could be a description of an oil slick (8)
Black Sea
CL
Village on Loch Shiel in Ardnamurchan with a burn at its entrance (9)
Acharacle
CM
The world's most southerly passable body of water, with a Scottish name also used for the nearby Antarctic station (12)
McMurdo Sound
CN
Expression of gratitude in a region of Peru (5)
Tacna
CO
An Italian city with a sodium installation (6)
Ancona
CP
In Turkey, you are found in hard, agitating mountain climb (11)
Üçpınar Dağı
CQ
Australian isle where computer is used as brief centre of rock mining (15)
Macquarie Island
CR
A car crash in the capital city of Ghana (5)
Accra
CS
Hungarian city where chest muscles are on show (4)
Pecs
CT
Huge area of sea in the frozen north (11)
Arctic Ocean
CU
Country named after the line of latitude which passes through it (7)
Ecuador
CV
Town of New York state, meaning town where an auto repair man lives (13)
Mechanicville
CW
Occidental part of the climb of Everest, the first mountain in height ranking (10)
Western Cwm
CX
Trendy Mexican town where you see short male cow return to port, at the site of the asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs (15)
Chicxulub Puerto
CY
Paris suburb where it's important to be right (5)
Bercy
CZ
No ways lead to this new Polish town (8)
Nowy Sącz
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