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Southern Cross Group (private equity firm)
Southern Cross Group, also known as Southern Cross Capital Management, is a private equity firm founded in 1998 making control investments in Latin American companies.
Southern Crossing (San Francisco Bay)
The Southern Crossing is a proposed automobile bridge across San Francisco Bay south of the Bay Bridge, first planned in 1946, proposed over a dozen times, and never built.
Southern Darfur
South Darfur (Southern Darfur) is a state of southwestern Sudan with capital Nyala, 81,000 km², 21 localities, heavy displacement and famine risk since the 2023 civil war.
Southern Deccan Plateau
Southern Deccan Plateau, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 714 in peninsular India: the Krishna basin and adjacent basins north of Pulicat Lake, draining to the Bay of Bengal, with at least 15 endemic fish species.
Southern Democrats
Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, were the Democratic Party's conservative Southern faction dominating the region from 1877 to the 1960s, forming the conservative coalition with Republicans and backing the 1948 Thurmond revolt before realigning to the GOP after civil rights.
Southern District, Israel
Southern District (מחוז הדרום), Israel's largest district, stretches from Ashdod to Eilat with its center at Be'er Sheva; 14,185 km², about 1.4 million residents, Ashkelon and Be'er Sheva sub-districts, lowest density.
Southern Dynasties Buddhist Sangha Administration
Southern Dynasties Buddhist Sangha Administration (南朝僧官制度) was the system of monk-officials through which the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen courts supervised monks and nuns and administered Buddhist affairs.
Southern Dynasties Jiaozhou Administration
The Southern Dynasties Jiaozhou Administration governed Jiaozhou through a court-appointed governor, held for three generations by the Du family, who defeated the invader Lu Xun.
Southern Eastern Rift
Southern Eastern Rift, FEOW ecoregion 566, a freshwater ecoregion of the Gregory Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania; xeric, endorheic basins with soda lakes (Natron, Magadi, Nakuru), endemic Oreochromis fish, and over a million flamingos and wetland birds at key sites.
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.