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Southern elephant seal
Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), largest pinniped, males to 3,700 kg with inflatable proboscis; circumpolar subantarctic breeder, ~650,000 animals, four populations; IUCN Vulnerable after 2023 H5N1 avian influenza declines.
Southern England
Southern England: the southern part of England, covering the South East, South West, East of England and London. Known for chalk aquifers, Dartmoor's 2,039 ft High Willhays, the London-centered economy, and drought-prone, horticulture-rich farmland.
Southern Europe
Southern Europe: the southern region of Europe, 15 countries under the UN geoscheme including Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece; about 150.8 million people (2025), Mediterranean climate, severe heat, drought, and wildfire exposure.
Southern Finland
Southern Finland (Etelä-Suomi, Södra Finland) is the southern part of Finland, a province from 1997 to 2009 formed from Häme, Kymi, and Uusimaa, now a geographic and statistical term.
Southern Football League
Southern Football League, English non-league competition founded 1894; with Isthmian and Northern Premier leagues runs Steps 3-4 (tiers 7-8) in four divisions; 2025-26 champions Harborough Town.
Southern Fried Rice
Southern Fried Rice is a 2025 KeyTV web series by Nakia Stephens, executive produced by Keke Palmer, following KoKo Johnson, a Korean American raised by Black parents, at a fictional HBCU; it drew major backlash.
Southern Germany
Southern Germany (Süddeutschland): Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and southern Hessen; historically the stem duchies of Franconia, Swabia, and Bavaria; now Germany's manufacturing powerhouse after reversing the old north-south economic hierarchy.
Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic is a genre, or mode, of American literature from the South that uses grotesque characters, dark humor, and decay to expose uncomfortable realities of race, class, and religion.
Southern Gulf of Guinea Drainages
Southern Gulf of Guinea Drainages is a freshwater ecoregion, number 533 in the FEOW framework, covering short coastal rivers in Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon known for endemic fishes.
Southern Han
Southern Han (南漢) was a Chinese state of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, founded by the Liu family to rule the Lingnan region around modern Guangdong and Guangxi.
Southern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere: Earth's half south of the equator, also called the austral hemisphere. About 81% ocean, 32% of land, 15% of population; seasons opposite the north due to 23.5-degree axial tilt; site of the Antarctic ozone hole.
Southern Hemisphere quillworts
Southern Hemisphere quillworts are small, grass-like aquatic to semi-aquatic Isoetes species of nutrient-poor wetlands, native to Africa, Australasia, and South America, with northern-central South America the richest hotspot.
Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons
Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons are the annual cyclone activity periods across three basins, the southwest Indian Ocean, Australian region, and southwest Pacific, producing about 31% of the world's tropical cyclones.
Southern Highlands (New South Wales)
Southern Highlands, New South Wales: highlands region south-west of Sydney, mainly in Wingecarribee Shire; Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven SA4 had 161,006 people (2021), median age 48, 88.3% separate houses.
Southern Highlands Province
Southern Highlands Province is a Papua New Guinea province with capital Mendi, 510,245 people (2011 census) over 15,089 sq km after Hela Province split away on 17 May 2012, with five districts and Angal Heneng majority.
Southern Hudson Bay
Southern Hudson Bay (FEOW ecoregion 110) is a Canadian freshwater ecoregion of temperate coastal rivers draining northeastern Manitoba, northern Ontario, and western Quebec into Hudson and James bays, with depauperate, non-endemic fish fauna.
Southern Iberia
Southern Iberia is a freshwater ecoregion, number 413 in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World framework, covering Spain's far south from the Guadiana to the Segura rivers.
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University (SIU) is an Illinois public university system founded in 1869 as Southern Illinois Normal University, comprising SIU Carbondale (R1, flagship) and SIU Edwardsville, with medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, and law programs.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), flagship of the SIU System alongside SIU Edwardsville, is a public research university founded in 1869 as a normal school, achieving R1 Carnegie status in 2025 with about 12,000 students.
Southern Italy
Southern Italy (Mezzogiorno): Italy's eight southern and insular regions, about 20 million people. Persistent North-South divide: GDP per capita below 25,000 euro versus 46,100 in the Northwest, but five years of faster growth, Cassa per il Mezzogiorno legacy, and demographic decline.
Southern Kalahari
Southern Kalahari: arid southern Kalahari Desert across Northern Cape (South Africa), southern Botswana, and Namibia; freshwater ecoregion 571 with fossil Nossob, Auob, and Molopo rivers, endorheic pans, and Endangered conservation status.
Southern Kordofan
Southern Kordofan (South Kordofan State, Janūb Kurdufān) is a Sudanese state with capital Kadugli, covering the Nuba Mountains on the South Sudan border; agrarian economy, one-third of Sudan's livestock, oil and gold, and conflict and famine since 2011 and 2023.
Southern Kuzbass Coal Company
Southern Kuzbass Coal Company (Южный Кузбасс) is a Russian coal mining company in Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast – Kuzbass, owned 96 percent by Mechel-Mining and producing coking and thermal coal.
Southern Levant
Southern Levant: southern part of the eastern Mediterranean Levant, covering Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Jordan (sometimes Lebanon and southern Syria); a key archaeological region from the Paleolithic through the Islamic era.
Southern Liang
Southern Liang (南凉) was one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, a state in the Huangshui region of northwest China founded by the Xianbei Tufa branch and destroyed by Western Qin in 414.
Southern Lights pipeline
The Southern Lights pipeline, also known as Enbridge Line 13, is a 2,560 km Enbridge pipeline carrying diluent from Manhattan, Illinois, to Edmonton for blending with Alberta oil sands bitumen, opened in 2010.
Southern Literary Messenger
The Southern Literary Messenger was a monthly literary magazine published in Richmond, Virginia, from 1834 to 1864, and Edgar Allan Poe's first important editorial post.
Southern Madagascar
Southern Madagascar is the arid extreme south of Madagascar, defined as the Southern Basins freshwater ecoregion and known for its spiny desert, seasonal rivers, and drought since 2017.
Southern Manifesto
The Southern Manifesto, formally the Declaration of Constitutional Principles, was a March 1956 statement by 101 southern members of Congress opposing Brown v. Board of Education and defending segregation on states'-rights grounds.
Southern Mazghuna pyramid
The Southern Mazghuna pyramid is an unfinished royal pyramid at Mazghuna, about 5 km south of Dahshur in Egypt, assigned to the 13th Dynasty and often attributed to Amenemhet IV.