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Southeast Asian ovalocytosis
Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (SAO, hereditary ovalocytosis, SLC4A1Δ27) is an autosomal dominant red cell membrane disorder causing rigid ovalocytes, common in Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea, that protects carriers against cerebral and vivax malaria.
Southeast Gateway Gas Pipeline
The Southeast Gateway Gas Pipeline, also called Puerta al Sureste, is a 715-kilometer offshore natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico serving southeast Mexico.
Southeast Indian Ridge
Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), the divergent boundary between the Australian and Antarctic plates in the southeastern Indian Ocean; intermediate spreading 58-76 mm/yr, active since 95 Ma, includes the anomalous Australia-Antarctica Discordance.
Southeast Missouri State University
Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO), founded 1873 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri as the Third District Normal School, is a public master's-level regional university with a statewide mission in computer science, cybersecurity, and the arts.
Southeast Sulawesi
Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara, Sultra) is an Indonesian province on Sulawesi's southeastern peninsula, capital Kendari, established 1964. About 2.79 million people (2024); nickel mining, fisheries, and Wakatobi coral reefs dominate its economy.
Southeast Supply Header
Southeast Supply Header (SESH) is an interstate natural gas pipeline from the Perryville Hub in Louisiana across Mississippi to Mobile County, Alabama, in service since 2008.
Southeast temple of the Athenian Agora
Southeast Temple of the Athenian Agora: a 2nd-century AD Ionic octastyle prostyle Roman temple built over the classical Mint, reusing members from the Temple of Athena at Sounion, damaged in the Herulian sack of 267 AD and restored in 2025-2026.
Southeast the Peacock Flies
Southeast the Peacock Flies (孔雀東南飛), originally Ancient Poem Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing, is a Han yuefu narrative poem about a forced separation ending in double suicide.
Southeast University
Southeast University (东南大学, SEU) is a Project 985/211 national key research university in Nanjing, China, tracing to 1902; strong in engineering, with five A+ disciplines and twelve Double First-Class disciplines.
Southeastern (train operating company)
Southeastern, the trading name of SE Trains Limited, is a publicly owned British train operator serving London, Kent, and East Sussex, and running Britain's only domestic high-speed rail service.
Southeastern Anatolia Project
The Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, GAP) is Turkey's regional development program for the Euphrates and Tigris basins, begun in the 1970s and built around 22 dams and large-scale irrigation.
Southeastern Borneo
Southeastern Borneo is a freshwater ecoregion, number 746 in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World scheme, covering southern Borneo's river basins, mostly in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc.
Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc. (SCCi), founded 1991 by Jeff and Alexis Harris, is the largest land conservancy solely dedicated to caves, protecting 170+ caves on 39 preserves across seven southeastern states via free online permits.
Southeastern Cluster
Southeastern Cluster (Southeastern Group) of the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia: five churches south of the River Jordan, including Biete Amanuel, Biete Gabriel Raphael, Biete Mercoreus, Biete Abba Libanos, and Biete Lehem, some possibly former palaces or prisons.
Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference (SEC), American college athletic conference founded 1932 in Knoxville, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Sixteen members after Oklahoma and Texas joined July 1, 2024; $3.4B member athletics revenue and $1.03B distributed for 2024-25.
Southeastern Europe
Southeastern Europe, also called the Balkans, is the peninsula region between Central Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, marked by Byzantine, Ottoman, and Latin Christian layering and ongoing EU enlargement.
Southeastern Ghats
Southeastern Ghats (FEOW ecoregion 716): a freshwater fish ecoregion of peninsular India covering the Cauvery and adjacent basins south of Pulicat Lake, draining to the Bay of Bengal, with endemic fish fauna.
Southeastern Korean Peninsula
Southeastern Korean Peninsula (FEOW ecoregion 639): temperate coastal-river freshwater ecoregion covering rivers draining to Korea's southern and southeastern coasts, plus Ulluengdo, Jejudo, and Tsushima, with 11 endemic fish species.
Southeastern Mata Atlantica
Southeastern Mata Atlantica is a freshwater ecoregion in southern Brazil covering coastal rivers and lagoons between the Rio Araranguá and the Rio Ribeira de Iguape.
Southeastern United States
Southeastern United States: the American South region, also called the Southeast or Dixie, spanning Atlantic and Gulf coastal states. Defined variously by Census divisions, climate (humid subtropical), Reconstruction history, and Southern identity.
Southend United F.C.
Southend United F.C. (the Shrimpers), English football club founded 1906 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex; Football League member 1920-2021, second tier in 1991 and 2006-07, now National League at Roots Hall under COSU ownership led by Justin Rees since 2024.
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea is a city and unitary authority in Essex on the Thames Estuary, about 40 miles from London. Known for the world's longest pleasure pier (1.34 miles) and city status granted in 2022 honoring Sir David Amess; population about 180,700.
Southern 100
Southern 100 Road Races: annual July mass-start motorcycle road race meeting on the 4.25-mile Billown Course near Castletown, Isle of Man, first run 14 July 1955; named for its 100-mile 500cc feature race, unlike the TT time-trial format.
Southern accent (United States)
Southern accent (United States), or Southern American English, the regional accent of the US South, defined by /aɪ/ monophthongization, the Southern Vowel Shift, the pen-pin merger, y'all and multiple modals; fading in cities like Atlanta and Raleigh amid heavy in-migration.
Southern Accents
Southern Accents: sixth 1985 studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a troubled loose concept album about the modern South on MCA, produced by Petty, Jimmy Iovine, Mike Campbell, Dave Stewart, and Robbie Robertson, best known for "Don't Come Around Here No More" and its title track.
Southern Administration (Namianguan)
The Southern Administration (南面官) was the Liao dynasty's Tang-style system of Chinese offices, governing the sedentary Chinese population in parallel with the Northern Administration for the nomads.
Southern Africa
Southern Africa: the continent's southernmost sub-region; UN M49 lists Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa (SACU), the world's most unequal region, average Gini about 59.
Southern African Customs Union
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is a customs union of Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa that shares a common external tariff and pooled customs revenue.
Southern African Development Community
Southern African Development Community (SADC), formerly SADCC, is a Southern African regional integration bloc founded by the 1980 Lusaka Declaration, transformed by the 1992 Windhoek Treaty, headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana.
Southern African theatre traditions
Southern African theater traditions are the theatrical practices of the sub-continent, rooted in indigenous oral narrative, praise poetry, and dance, and reshaped by colonial and protest theater.