DC or dc may stand for:

• Da capo
• Democrazia Cristiana
• developed country (in the CIA World Factbook)
• Direct current
• Doctor of Chiropractic

• Places
  • District of Columbia
  • Distrito Capital (Bogotá, D.C.)

• Companies
  • DC Comics, a comic book publisher
  • DC Shoes, a skateboarding apparel manafacturer
  • Douglas Aircraft Company

• Software, Video Game, and Consumer Electronics Related
  • Desert Combat, game modification
  • Dead Cities, game modification
  • dc: Unix command line RPN based calculator
  • Dice City, game modification
  • Direct Connect
  • Dot-com, a internet related term
  • Dreamcast, Sega video game console
  • Dublin Core, set of standards for the use of the RDF dialect of XML

• Fictional series
  • Detective Conan a.k.a. Case Closed