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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.
Southern medical journal
Southern Medical Journal (South Med J), the peer-reviewed monthly journal of the Southern Medical Association, published since 1908, MEDLINE-indexed, online-only since 2020, with over 46,000 archived articles.
Southern Medical University
Southern Medical University (南方医科大学), a public medical university in Guangzhou, formerly the PLA First Military Medical University, founded 1951, transferred to Guangdong in 2004; 3rd in ShanghaiRanking 2026 medical universities.
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University (SMU), a private university in University Park, Dallas, Texas, founded 1911 by Texas Methodist conferences, opened 1915; today Carnegie R1, ACC member, 12,544 students, $2.3 billion endowment.
Southern Methodist University football scandal
The SMU football scandal: illegal booster payments to players led the NCAA in 1987 to impose its only football death penalty, canceling the 1987 and 1988 seasons and crippling the program for decades.
Southern Min (闽南语)
Southern Min (闽南语, Minnan, Hokkien) is a branch of Min Chinese from southern Fujian, not mutually intelligible with Mandarin, spoken in Taiwan and Southeast Asia; Hokkien is its largest variety, with layered historical strata and 8-tone phonology.
Southern Ming
The Southern Ming (南明) is the collective name for short-lived Ming princely regimes in southern China that resisted the Qing conquest from 1644 until 1662.
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football, University of Southern Mississippi FBS program in Hattiesburg, playing since 1912; two UPI College Division titles (1958, 1962), 24 bowls, Sun Belt member, home of Favre and Ray Guy.
Southern Movement
Southern Movement (al-Hirak, al-Hirak al-Janoubi) is Yemen's southern protest and separatist movement founded in 2007 after the 1994 civil war; its UAE-backed offshoot, the Southern Transitional Council, collapsed in January 2026.
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR): former Ethiopian regional state (1995–2023), the country's most ethnically diverse with 56 groups, dissolved into Sidama, South West, South Ethiopia, and Central Ethiopia regions.
Southern Natural Gas Pipeline
The Southern Natural Gas pipeline (SNG, SONAT) is an interstate natural gas pipeline in the southeastern United States, in service since 1929 and owned by Kinder Morgan and Southern Company.
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), founded in 1932 as a Manchester, NH accounting school, is a private nonprofit NECHE-accredited university and one of America's largest, with over 200,000 online students, College for America competency-based degrees, and a 36% eight-year completion rate.
Southern noir
Southern noir (rural noir, country noir, grit lit) is crime fiction fusing hardboiled tradition with Southern Gothic, set in small-town and rural South; key authors Daniel Woodrell, S.A. Cosby, Attica Locke.
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, the ocean encircling Antarctica to 60°S, is defined by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and takes up roughly 43% of oceanic anthropogenic CO2 and 75% of ocean heat uptake.
Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling
SOCCOM, the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, is a US research program launched in 2014 to observe the Southern Ocean's carbon cycle with profiling floats.
Southern Ocean fisheries enforcement
Southern Ocean fisheries enforcement covers the patrols, inspections, and port and market controls used to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing for Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish.
Southern Ocean Time Series
The Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) is an Australian ocean observatory of automated deep-water moorings southwest of Tasmania that has measured air-sea heat and carbon exchange since 1998.
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a maximum-security men's prison in Lucasville, Ohio, opened in 1972 to replace the Ohio Penitentiary and site of the 1993 Lucasville riot.
Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario: sedimentary-basin region of Ontario south of 45°N, bounded by the Canadian Shield and Great Lakes; Canada's most densely populated region, about one quarter of national GDP, centered on Toronto and the Golden Horseshoe.
Southern Operations Room (غرفة عمليات الجنوب)
Southern Operations Room (غرفة عمليات الجنوب): coalition of former reconciled rebels and Druze militias from Daraa, Quneitra, and Sweida formed in late 2024; expelled Assad government forces and first entered Damascus on 8 December 2024.
Southern Oromo language
Southern Oromo, or Borana (Afaan Borana), ISO 639-3 gax, Glottocode bora1271, is a Lowland East Cushitic Oromo variety with about 9.6 million speakers in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya; dialects include Borana, Arsi, Guji, Karayu, Salale, and Gabra, written in Latin script.
Southern Pacific 4294
Southern Pacific 4294 is a 4-8-8-2 cab forward articulated steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1944, the only surviving Southern Pacific cab forward, on display at the California State Railroad Museum.