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South Station
South Station, opened in 1899, is Boston's main intermodal transit hub, serving Amtrak, MBTA commuter rail, the Red and Silver Lines, and intercity buses from the Financial District.
South Stoa I
South Stoa I: Classical stoa on the south side of the Athenian Agora, built ca. 430-420 BC with fifteen dining rooms, later used commercially, demolished mid-2nd century BC for South Stoa II.
South Stream
South Stream (Yuzhny Potok) was a Gazprom-led project for a 63-billion-cubic-meter-per-year pipeline carrying Russian gas across the Black Sea to Bulgaria and Central Europe, canceled in December 2014.
South Street Seaport
South Street Seaport: historic district on Manhattan's East River waterfront, once New York's principal port, home to the 1967 South Street Seaport Museum and redeveloped under lease by the Howard Hughes Corporation.
South Sudan
South Sudan (Republic of South Sudan), Africa's newest state, independent from Sudan 9 July 2011 after a 98.83 percent referendum vote; capital Juba; civil war 2013-2018, 2018 R-ARCSS, oil-dependent economy, December 2026 first elections.
South Sudanese Civil War
South Sudanese Civil War (2013–2018): conflict between Salva Kiir's government and Riek Machar's SPLM-IO that killed an estimated 400,000; ended by the 2018 R-ARCSS, which collapsed after Machar's 2025 arrest.
South Sudanese pound
The South Sudanese pound (SSP) is the currency of South Sudan, introduced by the Bank of South Sudan in July 2011 to replace the Sudanese pound at par.
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are people who fled conflict in South Sudan for asylum in Uganda, largely through land-based settlements like Bidibidi, opened in 2016.
South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs, Sydney NRL rugby league club founded 1908; record 21 Australian premierships including the inaugural 1908 title (14-12 v Eastern Suburbs); excluded 2000-2001, reinstated 2002 after Federal Court appeal; red and green, Accor Stadium.
South Tangerang
South Tangerang (Kota Tangerang Selatan, Tangsel) is a city in Banten, Indonesia, split from Tangerang Regency by Law 51/2008 on 26 November 2008; about 1.5 million people, 7 districts, private new towns BSD City, Bintaro Jaya, Alam Sutera.
South Terrebonne High School
South Terrebonne High School, home of the Gators, is a public 9-12 high school in Bourg, Louisiana, in the Terrebonne Parish School District. Opened 1961, A-rated, rebuilt after Hurricane Ida, reopened 2026.
South Texas nuclear power plant
The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (STP) is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Bay City in Matagorda County, Texas, producing about 2,700 megawatts.
South Thailand insurgency
South Thailand insurgency: Malay Muslim separatist conflict in Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat led by the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and PULO, ongoing since 2004, killing nearly 7,900, with Malaysia-facilitated peace talks since 2013.
South Tombs Cemetery, Amarna
The South Tombs Cemetery is a large non-elite burial ground at Amarna, Egypt, serving about 6,000 people of Akhetaten during the reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, c. 1349–1332 BC.
South Tyrol
South Tyrol, also known as Alto Adige, is a predominantly German-speaking autonomous province in northern Italy, a noted case of successful power-sharing between language groups.
South Tyrolean People's Party
South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP, Südtiroler Volkspartei), founded 8 May 1945 in Bolzano, is the Christian democratic ethnic catch-all party of South Tyrol's German and Ladin speakers; it governed with DC 1948-1993, lost its absolute majority in 2013, and has since ruled with right-wing Italian partners.
South Uist
South Uist (Uibhist a Deas) is a 36,467 ha island in the southern Outer Hebrides, Scotland, linked to Benbecula by causeway, known for machair landscapes, Cladh Hallan mummies, brochs, Norse sites, kelp-era clearance and crofting.
South Ukraine nuclear power plant
The South Ukraine nuclear power plant (SUNPP) stands on the Southern Buh River near Pivdennoukrainsk, Ukraine; operating since 1982, it runs three VVER-1000 reactors totaling 3,000 MW.
South Umm-Gudair gas field
South Umm-Gudair (Arabic: أُمّ قُدَيْر) is a petroleum field at the north-western corner of the Kuwait–Saudi Arabia Partitioned Neutral Zone, with main production from the Lower Cretaceous Minagish Oolite reservoir.
South Valley Gas Pipeline
The South Valley Gas Pipeline (خط غاز الصعيد), also called the Upper Egypt Gas Pipeline, is a 930 km natural gas pipeline in Egypt from Dahshour to Aswan.
South Vietnam
South Vietnam (Việt Nam Cộng hòa), the Republic of Vietnam, was the US-backed anticommunist state in southern Vietnam, 1954/1955–1975, created by the Geneva Accords partition, ruled from Saigon by Diệm and later Thiệu, and collapsed in April 1975.
South Wales
South Wales: southern region of Wales containing the South Wales Valleys and coalfield; once the world's leading coal exporter, now centered on the Cardiff Capital Region economy.
South Wales Gas Pipeline
The South Wales Gas Pipeline, also known as the Milford Haven pipeline, is a 197-mile high-pressure gas pipeline running from the LNG terminals at Milford Haven to Tirley, Gloucestershire.
South Walker Creek Coal Mine
South Walker Creek Coal Mine is an open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, west of Nebo, operating since 1996 and owned by Stanmore Resources since 2022.
South Wawona (historical)
South Wawona (historical) is the 19th-century settlement at Wawona, Yosemite, also called Clark's Station or Clark and Moore's, founded by Galen Clark in 1856 and later the Washburns' Wawona Hotel, added to the park in 1932.
South West (Australia)
South West (Australia): administrative region of Western Australia, 23,969 km², 12 LGAs, largest WA region by population (206,297), GRP $19.79bn, centres Bunbury and Busselton, Noongar traditional owners, Margaret River wine.
South West Africa
South West Africa: former name of Namibia, a German colony from 1884, League of Nations Class C Mandate under South Africa from 1920, ICJ disputes, independence 1990.
South West Africa campaign
The South West Africa campaign was a First World War operation in which South African forces conquered the German colony of German South-West Africa, today's Namibia, in 1915.
South West Caucasian Republic
The South West Caucasian Republic, also known as the Republic of Kars, was a short-lived state proclaimed in Kars in December 1918 and dissolved by the British in April 1919.
South West England
South West England, one of England's nine regions, is the country's largest by area with about 5.8 million people. Key facts: Devonport naval base, Hinkley Point C, strong agriculture, tourism, and a widening productivity gap versus London.