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Southwest Baptist Bearcats
Southwest Baptist Bearcats (SBU Bearcats), athletic teams of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri; NCAA Division II, 22 varsity sports, plus an early varsity esports program launched fall 2016 with League of Legends scholarships of $500 to $10,000.
Southwest Chief
The Southwest Chief is a daily Amtrak long-distance train covering 2,265 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff, successor to the Santa Fe Super Chief.
Southwest Conference
Southwest Conference (SWC), a Division I college athletic conference founded in 1914 and dominated by Texas schools plus Arkansas, disbanded June 30, 1996; members formed the Big 12, WAC, and Conference USA.
Southwest Economic Region
Southwest Economic Region (Південно-західний економічний район), one of three large Soviet planning regions of the Ukrainian SSR from 1961, covering 13 central and western oblasts; distinct from the 1962 seven-region decree and earlier 1921 and 1952 schemes.
Southwest Finland
Southwest Finland (Varsinais-Suomi, Egentliga Finland) is a Finnish region on the Baltic Sea with 27 municipalities, about 480,000 residents, and Turku as its center; NUTS code FI1C1, Finland's third-largest region.
Southwest Florida International Airport
Southwest Florida International Airport, also called Fort Myers Airport, is a commercial airport in Fort Myers, Florida, opened in 1983 and handling a record 11 million passengers in 2025.
Southwest Gas
Southwest Gas Corporation is a natural gas utility founded in 1931 and headquartered in Las Vegas, serving about 2.26 million customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California.
Southwest humor
Southwest humor, also called Southwestern humor, is a tradition of regional sketches and tales from the antebellum American Southwest that flourished from about 1830 to 1860.
Southwest Indian Ridge
The Southwest Indian Ridge is the plate boundary in the southern Indian Ocean where the African and Antarctic plates move apart, stretching about 7,700 km between two triple junctions.
Southwest National Park
Southwest National Park, Tasmania's largest national park (618,190 ha, gazetted 1951, expanded 1968 and 1976), a remote wilderness in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area with the South Coast Track, Melaleuca, Lake Pedder, and Mount Anne.
Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
The Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve, known as Kespukwitk, is a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in 2001 in southwestern Nova Scotia, covering 13,770 km² across five counties.
Southwest Pacific Basin
Southwest Pacific Basin (also Southwestern Pacific Basin): large deep-ocean basin of the South Pacific east of New Zealand, bounded by the Kermadec Trench and Albatross Cordillera; carries the Antarctic-fed deep western boundary current and hosts the sediment-starved South Pacific Bare Zone.
Southwest Palace (Nineveh)
The Southwest Palace, known in inscriptions as the Palace Without a Rival, is the royal palace that Assyrian king Sennacherib built at Nineveh, his capital.
Southwest Palace at Kalhu
Southwest Palace at Kalhu (Nimrud): an unfinished 7th-century BCE Assyrian royal palace in the citadel's southwest corner, attributed to Esarhaddon; distinct from Sennacherib's larger Southwest Palace at Nineveh, and noted for its columned halls and reused orthostats.
Southwest Paleohispanic script
The Southwest Paleohispanic script, also called the Tartessian script, is the first attested indigenous writing system of Iberia, derived from the Phoenician alphabet and used on about 100 stone stelae.
Southwest Papua
Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya), Indonesia's 38th province, created by Law No. 29 of 2022 from West Papua; capital Sorong; six regencies/city; Raja Ampat UNESCO Geopark; population about 637,000 (2025).
Southwest Power Pool
Southwest Power Pool is a nonprofit regional transmission organization based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that runs the grid and wholesale power markets across all or part of 17 central and western states.
Southwest Research Institute
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is an independent, nonprofit applied research and development organization in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1947, serving government and industry clients.
Southwest Review
The Southwest Review is an American literary quarterly published at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, founded in 1915 and renamed in 1924, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews.
Southwest Temple in the Agora of Athens
Southwest Temple (Athenian Agora): small Roman-period temple east of the Tholos, relocated from Thorikos in the Augustan era; tetrastyle prostyle, cult unknown, debated Ionic versus Doric reconstruction.
Southwestern Arabian Coast
Southwestern Arabian Coast (FEOW ecoregion 439), a freshwater ecoregion along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coasts of Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, defined by highly endemic cyprinid fish fauna in xeric, spring-fed streams.
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), NCAA Division I HBCU athletic conference founded 1920 in Houston, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Twelve member schools; FCS football champion plays the MEAC champion in the Celebration Bowl instead of the FCS playoffs.
Southwestern Australia
Southwestern Australia, the Southwest Australia Ecoregion or Floristic Region, is a Mediterranean-climate biodiversity hotspot in Western Australia with over 8,000 plant species, over 4,000 endemic, and highly endemic freshwater fish threatened by salinisation and declining rainfall.
Southwestern Branch of the Russian Geographical Society
The Southwestern Branch of the Russian Geographical Society was a learned society established in Kyiv in 1873 for geographic and ethnographic research on Ukraine, dissolved in 1876 under the Ems Ukase.
Southwestern Electric Power Company
Southwestern Electric Power Company, known as SWEPCO, is an American Electric Power utility headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, serving 556,100 customers in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas since 1912.
Southwestern Energy
Southwestern Energy was an American independent natural gas company headquartered in Spring, Texas, known for discovering the Fayetteville Shale and operating in Appalachia and Haynesville.
Southwestern Krai
The Southwestern Krai (Russian: Юго-Западный край) was a territory of the Russian Empire from 1832 to 1917, made up of the Kyiv, Podolia, and Volhynia governorates of Right-Bank Ukraine.
Southwestern Public Service Company
Southwestern Public Service Company is a vertically integrated electric utility serving the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico, headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Xcel Energy.
Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States, or U.S. Southwest, is an arid region centered on Arizona and New Mexico, defined by desert landscapes and a shared Spanish and Indigenous history.
Southwick
Southwick, West Sussex: village on the Adur coastal plain, site of a large early Roman courtyard villa or "mini-palace" begun c. AD 70/80, occupied to c. AD 350, excavated by Winbolt in 1931-32 and now a scheduled monument under modern buildings.