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South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region
South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region (SWEPR) is Ethiopia's 11th regional state, created November 21, 2021 from six SNNPR units after a 93.9%-turnout referendum; it borders Oromia, South Sudan, SNNPR, and Gambella.
South West Melehia Oil Field
South West Melehia (SWM) is an onshore oil and gas field in Egypt's Western Desert, discovered in 2018 and producing since 2019 at about 5,000 barrels per day.
South West State of Somalia
South West State of Somalia, also written Southwest State, is a federal member state formed in 2014, comprising the regions of Bay, Bakool, and Lower Shabelle.
South Western Railway
South Western Railway (SWR) is a British train operating company running commuter and regional services from London Waterloo to Surrey, Hampshire, and beyond, publicly owned since 25 May 2025.
South Williamsburg, Brooklyn
South Williamsburg is the southern section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, home to the Satmar Hasidic community centered on Lee and Bedford Avenues and the Puerto Rican Los Sures area, more insulated from gentrification than North Williamsburg.
South Wind Knows My Mood (南风知我意)
South Wind Knows My Mood (南风知我意, Nan Feng Zhi Wo Yi), also South Wind Knows, is a 2023 Chinese urban healing romance drama adapted from Qi Wei's novel, directed by Li Ang, starring Cheng Yi and Zhang Yuxi; 39 Youku episodes that broke 10000 heat in eight days.
South Wind, Clear Sky
South Wind, Clear Sky (Gaifū kaisei), popularly called Red Fuji, is a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, made around 1830–33 for his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
South Wollo Zone
South Wollo Zone (Amharic: ደቡብ ወሎ ዞን) is an administrative zone of the Amhara region in north-eastern Ethiopia, with over 2.5 million people and a drought-prone highland economy.
South Yemen
South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY), was the Marxist-Leninist southern Yemeni state from 30 November 1967 until unification with North Yemen on 22 May 1990; its 1994 secession failed, and southern separatism persists.
South Yemeni dinar
The South Yemeni dinar was the currency of South Yemen from 1965 until 1996, subdivided into 1000 fils and pegged at parity with the pound sterling.
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire: metropolitan county in northern England with boroughs Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield; former county council abolished; now led by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and its mayor.
South-East Asian theatre of World War II
South-East Asian theatre of World War II: the 1941–1945 theater in Indochina, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Burma, and the East Indies, where Japan's conquests and occupation ended with the reconquest of Burma and surrender in August 1945.
South-West Region
South-West Region (Région du Sud-Ouest), one of Cameroon's ten regions, capital Buea, one of two Anglophone regions; six divisions, 2005 census population 1,316,079, Mount Cameroon 4,040 m, center of the Anglophone Crisis since 2017.
South–North Water Transfer Project
The South–North Water Transfer Project, also called the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (南水北调), is the world's largest scheme moving Yangtze water to China's dry north, operating since 2014.
South32
South32 is a globally diversified metals and mining company created in May 2015 through a demerger from BHP Billiton, headquartered in Australia and listed in Australia, London, and Johannesburg.
Southall
Southall is a district in the London Borough of Ealing, west London, sometimes called Little India. Known for its 830 AD first record, 1839 railway halt, Elizabeth line station, and Opportunity Area growth plans.
Southampton
Southampton, England's south-coast unitary-authority port city (pop. ~259,000), home to the UK's busiest cruise terminal and second largest container port, shaped by Titanic, Blitz and D-Day history and 2026–2028 devolution.
Southampton Airport
Southampton Airport, also known as Southampton International Airport, is a regional airport at Eastleigh in Hampshire, England, and the 1936 takeoff point for the Spitfire prototype.
Southampton F.C.
Southampton F.C. (the Saints), English club founded 1885 by St Mary's Young Men's Association; FA Cup winners 1976; home St Mary's Stadium since 2001; owned via Sport Republic under Dragan Šolak; expelled from 2026 Championship play-offs in Spygate case.
Southampton F.C. espionage incident
Southampton F.C. espionage incident ('Spygate', 2026): Southampton admitted spying on Oxford United, Ipswich Town, and Middlesbrough training sessions; expelled from Championship play-offs, four-point deduction, manager Tonda Eckert fined and suspended.
Southampton Island
Southampton Island (Salliq, ᓴᓪᓕᖅ) is the largest island in Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada, at 64°20′N 84°40′W. Its sole community is Coral Harbour; it was home to the Sallirmiut, hosts a 93,087 km² marine Area of Interest, and shows high summer phytoplankton productivity.
Southampton, New York
Southampton, New York: a Suffolk County town on Long Island's South Fork, settled 1640 from Lynn, Massachusetts at Conscience Point; claims first English colony in New York, disputed by Southold; population 69,036 (2020).
Southbound (2015 film)
Southbound (2015) is an American horror anthology film by Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, and Radio Silence, the V/H/S makers, with five interlocking desert-highway tales; it premiered at TIFF 2015 and was released by The Orchard in February 2016.
Southbound Journey
Southbound Journey (南行记, Nán Xíng Jì) is a 1935 short story collection by Chinese writer Ai Wu, based on his 1920s drifting through the Yunnan–Burma borderlands.
Southbridge (computing)
The southbridge, called the I/O Controller Hub on Intel platforms, handled a PC motherboard's slower I/O like storage, USB, audio, and networking, replaced by Intel's Platform Controller Hub.
Southcross Energy
Southcross Energy, also known as Southcross Energy Partners, L.P., was a Dallas natural gas midstream company founded in 2009, operating in South Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama before its 2019 bankruptcy.
Southeast Adriatic Drainages
Southeast Adriatic Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 420) is a Palearctic temperate coastal rivers ecoregion covering Albanian and western Balkan drainages from the Drin to the Vjosa, rich in endemic fish and eutrophying the southeastern Adriatic coast.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: subregion between the Indian and Pacific oceans, spanning the Indochina and Malay peninsulas and the Malay Archipelago; home to the eleven ASEAN member states, tropical monsoon climate, Sunda Shelf geology, and high climate-change vulnerability.
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), also called the Manila Pact organization, a Cold War alliance formed in 1954 by the US, UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand; Bangkok-based, consultation-only defense pact, dissolved June 30, 1977.
Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
The Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, or Bangkok Treaty, is a multilateral agreement signed in 1995 by ten states. It binds them not to develop or use nuclear weapons.