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San Salvador
San Salvador, capital and largest city of El Salvador, founded 1528 and made a city in 1546; 316,090 residents, 1,143,000 metro, at 658 m elevation near the active Boquerón volcano.
San Salvador (group)
San Salvador is a French six-voice vocal and percussion group from Saint-Salvadour in Corrèze, singing in Limousin Occitan; its first album, La Grande Folie, won the 2021 Victoires du Jazz for best world-music album.
San Salvador de Jujuy
San Salvador de Jujuy, originally San Salvador de Velasco, capital of Jujuy Province, Argentina, founded 19 April 1593 by Francisco de Argañaraz; 381,022 residents in its 2022 agglomerate, gateway to the Quebrada de Humahuaca.
San Salvador Island
San Salvador Island (Guanahani), Bahamas: traditionally Columbus's 1492 first landfall, formerly Watling Island until 1926; noted for blue holes, inland lakes, national parks, and the Gerace Research Centre.
San Sebastián
San Sebastián (Donostia), capital of Gipuzkoa in Spain's Basque Country, is a Bay of Biscay resort city of about 186,000 people, known for La Concha beach, pintxos and Michelin dining, Belle Époque royal tourism, and a growing research and innovation sector.
San Sebastián de los Reyes
San Sebastián de los Reyes, a Madrid-region municipality founded by royal charter on 2 May 1492 after settlers fled Alcobendas; grew from 1,130 people in 1900 to about 97,000 in 2025, known for its encierros and Cristo de los Remedios fiestas.
San Serriffe
San Serriffe: fictional island republic invented by The Guardian for its 1 April 1977 seven-page April Fool travel supplement; semicolon-shaped Upper and Lower Caisse islands, capital Bodoni, dictator General Pica, all named after printing terms.
San Shi Pan (Pan of the San Clan) inscription
The San Shi Pan (散氏盘) is a late Western Zhou bronze basin whose inscription records a land settlement between the states of Zeguo and Sanguo.
San Shiki (anti-aircraft shell)
San Shiki (三式弾, "Type 3 shell"), formally the Type 3 Common projectile, was a shrapnel and incendiary anti-aircraft round used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
San Siro
San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza) is Milan's 75,817-seat football stadium, Italy's largest, shared by AC Milan and Inter since 1947; opened 1926, rebuilt for the 1990 World Cup, sold to the clubs in 2025 for a planned replacement.
San Teodoro al Palatino
San Teodoro al Palatino (Chiesa di San Teodoro in Palatino) is a circular 6th-century church at the foot of Rome's Palatine Hill, built over Agrippa's Horrea Agrippiana, with a late 6th-century apse mosaic; since 2004 it serves Rome's Greek Orthodox community.
San Thang
San Thang (San Hoa Thang) is a Vietnamese-born Australian polymer chemist who co-invented RAFT polymerization at CSIRO in 1996 and became a Monash University professor in 2015.
San Tome Oil Field
San Tome Oil Field (Campo de Petróleo San Tomé) is an operating onshore oil field in Anzoátegui state, eastern Venezuela, wholly owned by the state company PDVSA.
San Vicente
San Vicente (Chichontepec) is El Salvador's large twin-peaked stratovolcano, ~50 km east of San Salvador, ~130 km3, no historical eruptions but recurrent deadly lahars, including the 2009 Verapaz disaster.
San Vicente Geothermal Power Station
The San Vicente Geothermal Power Station is a geothermal plant on the Chichontepec volcano in El Salvador, operated by LaGeo with a 5 MW pilot turbine since 2023.
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre
San Ysidro McDonald's massacre: James Huberty killed 21 people and injured 19 at a San Diego McDonald's on July 18, 1984, before a police sniper killed him; the deadliest U.S. mass shooting at the time.
San Yue City Pa-Chin Amusement Plaza
San Yue City Pa-Chin Amusement Plaza (三越電子遊樂場) is an arcade and casino-classified amusement venue in Deyang Village, Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan, operated since 2002 by 三越城電子遊戲場業有限公司 near Jiaoxi Railway Station.
San Zaccaria, Venice
San Zaccaria is a ninth-century church and former Benedictine nunnery in Castello, Venice, founded by Doge Giustiniano Partecipazio and Emperor Leo V, rebuilt by Gambello and Codussi, home to Bellini's 1505 altarpiece and a tide-flooded crypt.
San-In Godo Bank
San-In Godo Bank (株式会社山陰合同銀行) is a Japanese regional bank headquartered in Matsue, Shimane, formed in 1941 by the merger of Matsue Bank and Yonago Bank.
San-nakji (산낙지)
San-nakji (산낙지), Korean raw chopped live octopus made from Octopus minor, served moving with sesame oil; known for choking risk from active suckers and ethical debate over eating live cephalopods.
San-Pédro, Bas-Sassandra District
San-Pédro, a port city and commune in southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, capital of the San-Pédro region and Bas-Sassandra district; second port after Abidjan, leading cocoa exporter, 390,654 residents (2021).
San'ichirō Mizushima
San'ichirō Mizushima (水島三一郎, 1899–1983) was a Japanese physical chemist at the University of Tokyo who discovered the trans and gauche rotational isomers of 1,2-dihalogenoethanes and coined the term "gauche".
San'in Kaigan UNESCO Global Geopark
San'in Kaigan UNESCO Global Geopark (山陰海岸ジオパーク) is a UNESCO Global Geopark on the Sea of Japan coast of western Japan, stretching about 120 km through Kyoto, Hyogo, and Tottori Prefectures and admitted in 2010.
Sana (湊崎 紗夏) (singer)
Sana (湊崎 紗夏, Minatozaki Sana, 사나) is a Japanese singer from Osaka, sub-vocalist of TWICE and member of subunit MISAMO; scouted by JYP in 2011, debuted 2015 after SIXTEEN, hosts Sana's Fridge Interview.
Sana Amin Sheikh
Sana Amin Sheikh (born 1989, Mumbai) is an Indian actress and radio jockey; child artist in Hasratein, TV debut Kya Mast Hai Life, film debut Singham, known for Gustakh Dil, Krishnadasi, Scam 2003 as Nafisa Telgi, and Gujarati debut United State of Gujarat.
Sana Benefits
Sana Benefits is an Austin, Texas-based health insurance company founded in 2017 that sells level-funded health plans to small and midsize businesses, raising $107 million.
Sana Biotechnology
Sana Biotechnology is a Seattle-based clinical-stage biotechnology company, founded in 2018 and traded on Nasdaq as SANA, that engineers cells as medicines for type 1 diabetes and blood cancers.
Sana Javed
Sana Javed (ثنا جاوید), born 1993 in Jeddah, is a Pakistani Urdu-television actress known for Khaani (2017) and Ruswai, a PISA critics' award winner, married to cricketer Shoaib Malik since January 2024.
Sana Khan (सना खान)
Sana Khan (सना खान), Indian former actress and model active 2005–2020 in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu films; known for Silambattam, Bigg Boss 6, Jai Ho, and Special OPS; retired in 2020 to become a devout Muslim.
Sana Labs
Sana Labs, known as Sana, was a Stockholm-based AI company founded by Joel Hellermark in 2016 that built an enterprise learning platform and AI assistant.