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South Carolina Gamecocks

South Carolina Gamecocks: University of South Carolina athletic teams (also Fighting Gamecocks), NCAA Division I, SEC since 1990; nickname adopted 1902 after a Clemson banner dispute; garnet and black; mascot Cocky since 1980; nine national titles.

South Carolina Gamecocks football

South Carolina Gamecocks football, the University of South Carolina's SEC team since 1992. Gamecock mascot since 1902, ACC champs 1969, 21-year independent era, Heisman winner George Rogers, plays at Williams-Brice Stadium.

South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball

South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball: University of South Carolina NCAA Division I program in the SEC. Under Dawn Staley (hired 2008) it won national titles in 2017, 2022, and a perfect 38-0 2024 season, with record attendance at Colonial Life Arena.

South Carolina General Assembly

South Carolina General Assembly: bicameral state legislature with a 124-member House (two-year terms) and 46-member Senate (four-year terms), meeting in Columbia; post-2024 Republican majorities of 89-35 and 34-12.

South Carolina in the American Civil War

South Carolina in the American Civil War: first state to secede (December 20, 1860), site of Fort Sumter's opening shots (April 12, 1861), major Confederate manpower and supply source, and overrun by Sherman's army in early 1865.

South Carolina Lowcountry

South Carolina Lowcountry: coastal plain region of southern South Carolina, home of Gullah Geechee culture, rice plantations, vast salt marshes, tourism and agriculture economies, and sea-level rise risk.

South Carolina Public Service Authority

South Carolina Public Service Authority, commonly known as Santee Cooper, is a state-owned electric and water utility headquartered in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, created by the General Assembly in 1934.

South Caucasus

South Caucasus (Transcaucasia): region of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia south of the Greater Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas; independent since 1991, shaped by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and pipeline corridors.

South Caucasus Gas Pipeline

The South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP), also known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline, carries gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field through Georgia to Turkey's grid at Erzurum, completed in 2006.

South Central (film)

South Central is a 1992 American drama directed by Stephen Milburn Anderson, adapted from Donald Bakeer's book Crips, starring Glenn Plummer as an ex-gang member trying to save his ten-year-old son from gang life; produced with Oliver Stone, released by Warner Bros., grossing $1,373,196.

South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority

The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, a Connecticut nonprofit public corporation created in 1977, supplies water to the greater New Haven area and acquired the New Haven Water Company in 1980.

South Central Railway zone

South Central Railway is a zone of Indian Railways headquartered at Secunderabad, Telangana. Formed in 1966, it carries heavy freight and passenger traffic in southern India.

South China Karst

South China Karst (中国南方喀斯特) is a UNESCO World Heritage serial site of seven karst clusters in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Chongqing, inscribed 2007 and 2014, protecting fenglin tower karst, fengcong cone karst, and Shilin stone forests over 97,125 hectares.

South China Morning Post (南华早报)

The South China Morning Post, also known as 南华早报, is an English-language daily newspaper in Hong Kong. Founded in 1903, it has been wholly owned by Alibaba since 2016.

South China National Botanical Garden

South China National Botanical Garden (华南国家植物园), in Guangzhou, China; founded 1929, made China's second national botanical garden in 2022; conserves about 19,766 plant taxa and leads global Magnoliaceae ex situ collections.

South China Sea (南海)

The South China Sea (南海, Nanhai; Vietnamese: Biên Dông) is a large marginal sea of the northwest Pacific, a vital trade corridor and the center of major territorial disputes.

South China tiger (华南虎)

The South China tiger (华南虎), also known as the Amoy tiger, is a tiger subspecies native to southern China that is possibly extinct in the wild and survives only in captivity.

South Coast Surf Shop

South Coast Surf Shop is a family-owned San Diego surf shop chain founded by Rob Ard in Ocean Beach in 1974, with five locations in Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach, in-house South Coast Surfboards, rentals, and a Closeouts discount store.

South Coast Wind

South Coast Wind, known until 2023 as Mayflower Wind, is a proposed offshore wind farm in federal waters off Massachusetts with up to 141 turbines and 2,400 megawatts of capacity.

South Col

The South Col is the high saddle between Mount Everest and Lhotse on the Nepal–China border at about 7,920 m, the last camp on the Southeast Ridge route.

South Dakota

South Dakota: upper Midwest U.S. state, capital Pierre, admitted November 2, 1889 from Dakota Territory. 935,094 residents (2025 est.), 77,047 sq mi, no state income tax, Missouri River bisects it.

South Dakota Democratic Party

South Dakota Democratic Party (SDDP), Sioux Falls-based state affiliate of the Democratic Party; recognized party with 134,453 registered voters (2026), open primaries to independents, no statewide win since 2008, platform adopted June 6, 2026.

South Dakota Department of Transportation

The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) is the state agency responsible for South Dakota's 7,794-mile state highway system, plus aeronautics, rail, and transit programs, headquartered in Pierre.

South Dakota State University

South Dakota State University (SDSU), South Dakota's Morrill Act land-grant university in Brookings, founded 1881, largest in the state with 12,139 fall 2025 students, Jackrabbits athletics, R1 goal by 2031.

South Dakota-class battleship (1939)

The South Dakota class (1939) was a group of four United States Navy fast battleships, BB-57 through BB-60, completed in 1942 and serving in the Pacific during World War II.

South Delhi

South Delhi (दक्षिण दिल्ली) is an administrative district of NCT of Delhi, headquartered at Saket, one of 11 districts since September 2012. Area 247 sq km, Census 2011 population 2,731,929, sub-divisions Saket, Hauz Khas, Mehrauli; home to Qutub Minar, IIT Delhi, IGNOU.

South Down (UK Parliament constituency)

South Down is a UK Parliament constituency in southern County Down, Northern Ireland, represented since 2017 by Chris Hazzard of Sinn Féin, who won 43.5% in 2024; previously SDLP-held under Margaret Ritchie, Eddy McGrady, and Enoch Powell.

South Dublin

South Dublin is an administrative county in Leinster, Ireland, created from County Dublin on 1 January 1994 under the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993. It covers 222.74 km2, had 301,075 people at Census 2022, and is governed from County Hall, Tallaght.

South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation

SEAFO (South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation) is an intergovernmental RFMO managing high-seas fisheries of the Southeast Atlantic under its 2001 Convention, entered into force 2004, with 7 members; it manages deep-sea species such as Patagonian toothfish and alfonsino around seamounts.