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Saint Helena Island (South Carolina)

Saint Helena Island is a rural Sea Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, home to the country's largest Gullah community, the Penn Center civil rights landmark, and a cultural protection overlay zoning district.

Saint Helena pound

The Saint Helena pound is the currency of Saint Helena and Ascension Island, pegged one-to-one to UK sterling and accepted only on those two islands.

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha: British Overseas Territory of three South Atlantic islands sharing one Governor since the 2009 Constitution; about 4,000 people, UK-aid dependent, airport opened 2017.

Saint Hilarion Monastery/ Tell Umm Amer

Saint Hilarion Monastery / Tell Umm Amer (دير القديس هيلاريون / تل أم عامر) is a 4th-century Byzantine monastery site in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, the first monastic community in the Holy Land, inscribed by UNESCO and on the Danger List in 2024.

Saint Igny de Vers

Saint Igny de Vers, the circuit de la Brosse, is an FIA Grade 6A autocross circuit in Saint-Igny-de-Vers, Rhône, France; 0.882 km lap, first raced 1969 at Le Plotron, current site built 1975 by Écurie Saint Rigaud.

Saint Isaac's Cathedral (Исаакиевский собор)

Saint Isaac's Cathedral (Исаакиевский собор), Saint Petersburg's Montferrand-designed neoclassical cathedral completed in 1858, a state museum since 1931, with 101.5 m dome, granite portico columns, and the 2017 church-transfer controversy.

Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago

Saint James is a working-class residential district of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, west of the city center and known for its bars, clubs, and eateries.

Saint Jhn

SAINt JHN (Carlos St. John Phillips, born 1986, Brooklyn) is an American rapper-singer of Guyanese descent; his song "Roses" (Imanbek Remix) hit UK number 1 and won a 2021 Grammy, and his albums include Collection One and Festival Season.

Saint Joan

Saint Joan is a chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue by George Bernard Shaw about the trial and execution of Joan of Arc, first performed in New York in 1923.

Saint John

Saint John is John the Apostle and Evangelist, son of Zebedee, traditionally credited with the Fourth Gospel and Revelation, who died at Ephesus about 100 AD.

Saint John LNG Terminal

Saint John LNG, known as Canaport LNG until 2021, is a liquefied natural gas terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada's only large-scale LNG import terminal.

Saint John, New Brunswick

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada's first incorporated city (1785), a Bay of Fundy port city of about 70,000-79,000 people, founded by Loyalists in 1783 and rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1877.

Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint John (St. John), smallest of the three main U.S. Virgin Islands, about 4,000 residents, no airport, reached by ferry from St. Thomas. Over half the island is Virgin Islands National Park, established 1956 from Laurance Rockefeller's donated land; Danish colony from 1718, sold to the U.S. in 1917.

Saint John's Eve

Saint John's Eve (Fiesta de San Juan) is the evening of 23 June, the eve of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, marked with bonfires, dancing, and divination customs across Europe.

Saint Johns County

Saint Johns County, Florida: county established 1821 (with Escambia) south of Jacksonville; seat St. Augustine, oldest US city. 346,328 residents (2025), 52.8% growth 2015–2025, median household income $109,839, PGA TOUR headquarters at Ponte Vedra Beach.

Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph, also known as Joseph of Nazareth, is the husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus, a carpenter honored as Patron of the Universal Church since 1870.

Saint Joseph's College (Indiana)

Saint Joseph's College (Indiana), a Catholic college in Rensselaer founded in 1889 and opened 1891, suspended operations in 2017 amid debt and probation, then reopened as a workforce training hub with CDL and certificate programs.

Saint Joseph's Day

Saint Joseph's Day, also known as La Festa di San Giuseppe, is the Christian feast of Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, kept on 19 March.

Saint Joseph's Oratory

Saint Joseph's Oratory, also known as the Oratoire Saint-Joseph, is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site on Mount Royal in Montreal, begun in 1904 by Brother André and known for its great dome.

Saint Joseph's University

Saint Joseph's University: private Jesuit Catholic university in Philadelphia, founded 1851; Hawk Hill campus, Haub School of Business, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, ~9,000 students, NCAA Division I Atlantic 10.

Saint Kentigern College

Saint Kentigern College is a private co-educational Presbyterian day and boarding school in Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, founded in 1953 by the Saint Kentigern Trust, serving Years 7-13 with NCEA and IB pathways.

Saint Kitts

Saint Kitts (St Christopher), volcanic island in the northern Lesser Antilles, larger island of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; 168 km², Mount Liamuiga 1,156 m, capital Basseterre, first English Caribbean colony (1623).

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis, also the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, a two-island Caribbean constitutional monarchy independent since 1983; capital Basseterre, CBI-dependent economy, Nevis secession clause.

Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence, or Laurentius, was the archdeacon of the church of Rome, martyred on 10 August 258 in the persecution of Emperor Valerian, four days after Pope Sixtus II was beheaded.

Saint Lawrence Seaway

The Saint Lawrence Seaway is a binational system of locks and canals, built by Canada and the United States, carrying ocean vessels from the Atlantic to Duluth, Minnesota.

Saint Leu Surf Club Elio Canestri

Saint Leu Surf Club Elio Canestri (SLSC EC) is a surf club founded in 1995 in Saint-Leu, La Réunion, named for Elio Canestri, a young surfer killed by a shark in 2015; it runs the Elio Surf Challenge.

Saint Levant (مروان عبد الحميد)

Saint Levant (مروان عبد الحميد), born Marwan Abdelhamid in Jerusalem in 2000, is a Palestinian-American trilingual rapper blending Arabic music, R&B and hip-hop; viral 2022 hit "Very Few Friends", EP From Gaza, With Love, album DEIRA (2024).

Saint Louis

Saint Louis: Louis IX of France (1214-1270), Capetian king 1226-1270, only canonized king of France (1297). Led the Seventh and Eighth Crusades, built the Sainte-Chapelle, famed for justice and reform.

Saint Louis Art Museum

Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM), comprehensive art museum in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. Founded 1879; housed in Cass Gilbert's 1904 World's Fair Palace of Fine Arts since 1906; ZMD subdistrict since 1971; free daily admission.

Saint Louis Cemetery

Saint Louis Cemetery: three historic Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans owned by the Archdiocese. No. 1 (1789) is the city's oldest surviving cemetery, first to use above-ground tombs, resting place of Marie Laveau and Homer Plessy, tour-only since 2015.