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São João de Meriti
São João de Meriti, a municipality in the Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region, Brazil; nicknamed Formigueiro das Américas; 440,962 residents (2022) on 35.216 km², emancipated 1947.
São José do Rio Preto
São José do Rio Preto (Rio Preto), municipality in northwest São Paulo state, Brazil; regional pole of 96 municipalities, 506,466 inhabitants (2026 estimate), created 1894, home of Hospital de Base and Funfarme.
São José dos Campos
São José dos Campos, a São Paulo state municipality in the Paraíba Valley, Brazil; 697,054 residents (2022 census), aerospace hub hosting ITA, INPE, and Embraer.
São José dos Pinhais
São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil: municipality created 1852, seat of Afonso Pena International Airport, third automotive hub of Brazil, 329,628 inhabitants (2022), in the Curitiba Metropolitan Region.
São Leopoldo
São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; founded 25 July 1824 by 39 German immigrants; cradle of German colonization in Brazil; Porto Alegre metro city of about 217,000 hit by the record May 2024 flood.
São Paulo
São Paulo, capital of São Paulo state, Brazil; largest Brazilian municipality, 11,451,999 residents (2022 census), founded by Jesuits in 1554, GDP per capita R$ 93,156 (2023), 47.2 million tourists in 2025.
São Vicente, São Paulo
São Vicente, São Paulo (SP), Brazil: coastal municipality in Baixada Santista, founded 22 January 1532 by Martim Afonso de Sousa as Brazil's first official vila; site of the first election in the Americas; about 330,000 residents.
Sarah Baartman District Municipality
Sarah Baartman District Municipality (formerly Cacadu) is a district municipality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, covering 34% of the province, surrounding Nelson Mandela Bay, and supporting seven local municipalities.
Saratoga County
Saratoga County is a county in northeastern New York State, formed from Albany County in 1791 and named for a Mohawk word meaning "place of the swift water."
Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders (Crìochan na h-Alba) is a rural council area in south-east Scotland, created in 1996 from the former Borders region; 116,800 people (2025) live across 1,827 square miles, with Galashiels and Hawick the largest towns.
Sedibeng District Municipality
Sedibeng District Municipality (DC42) is a Category C district municipality in southern Gauteng, South Africa, covering the Vaal Triangle with Emfuleni, Lesedi, and Midvaal local municipalities; manufacturing-dominated economy and grant-dependent finances.
Sefton
Sefton is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, running 22 miles along the northwest coast and home to nearly 280,000 people.
Segou, Ségou, Mali
Ségou, Mali: city and chief town of the Ségou cercle and the 4th administrative region, on the Niger River about 240 km east of Bamako; former Bambara empire capital, taken by Archinard in 1890.
Sekhukhune District Municipality
Sekhukhune District Municipality (DC47) is a Category C district municipality in south-eastern Limpopo, South Africa, established December 2000, seat Groblersdal, comprising Elias Motsoaledi, Ephraim Mogale, Fetakgomo-Tubatse, and Makhuduthamaga local municipalities.
Senador Canedo
Senador Canedo, a municipality in Goiás, Brazil, in the Goiânia metropolitan region; also called Esplanada originally. Railway town of the 1930s, seat of the Central-West's largest petrochemical hub, 155,635 residents (2022), installed 1 June 1989.
Sete Lagoas
Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais municipality about 70 km northwest of Belo Horizonte; medium-sized industrial city of 227,397 (2022 census), 11th most populous in the state, on a karst aquifer supplying all its water.
Shahrestān-e Shīrvān va Chardāval
Shahrestān-e Shīrvān va Chardāval (شهرستان شیروان و چرداول), Shirvan and Chardavol County, a former county of Ilam Province, Iran, centered on Sarableh; separated from Ilam County in 1981, renamed Chardavol County in 2013, later split into Chardavol, Sirvan, and Holeylan counties.
Shevchenkivskyi District
Shevchenkivskyi District (Шевченківський район), central district of Kyiv created 4 April 1937, enlarged 2001; contains Golden Gate, St Sophia's Cathedral, Babi Yar, 22 universities, and over 50 embassies.
Shropshire
Shropshire: rural West Midlands county and unitary authority (E06000051) on the Welsh border; 323,600 people (2021), density 101/km², tourism worth over £1bn, unitary since 2009.
Siem Reap (district)
Siem Reap district (Krong Siem Reap, code 1710) is the capital district of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, upgraded to a municipality in 2009, with 12 sangkats, 99 villages, and 174,265 urban residents at the 2008 census.
Siheung-si
Siheung-si (시흥시, 始興市) is a coastal city in mid-western Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, created January 1, 1989 from Siheung-gun's Sora-eup, Gunja-myeon, and Suam-myeon; it grew from 93,000 residents in 1989 to about 473,000 by 2018 through Sihwa industrial complex and new town development.
Sincan İlçesi
Sincan İlçesi, or Sincan District, is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in Türkiye's Central Anatolia Region, roughly 24 to 27 km west of the city center.
Sisonke District Municipality
Sisonke District Municipality (DC43) was a district municipality in southern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, seat Ixopo, established 2000 and renamed Harry Gwala District Municipality in May 2014; five local municipalities, agriculture-dominated economy.
Slatina Nera
Slatina Nera (Slatina-Nera) is a village in Sasca Montană commune, Caraș-Severin, Romania, on the Nera valley mining district; its recorded Mina Nera site has a Dacian La Tène settlement and a medieval mine, first mentioned in Marsigli's 1690/1700 conscription.
Snohomish County, Washington
Snohomish County, Washington: Puget Sound county created January 14, 1861 from Island County, seat at Everett, population about 870,000 (2025), home of Boeing Commercial Airplanes headquarters.
Søgne
Søgne, former coastal municipality in Vest-Agder, Norway (municipality no. 1018, center Tangvall), merged forcibly with Kristiansand and Songdalen on 1 January 2020; 2024 referendum kept it within Kristiansand.
Solano County, California
Solano County, California: county established February 18, 1850 as one of the original 27 California counties, named for Chief Solano (Sem Yeto); county seat Fairfield; population 453,491 (2020).
Somerset
Somerset is a largely rural county in South West England, governed since 1 April 2023 by the unitary Somerset Council, which replaced the county and four district councils.
Somerset County, New Jersey
Somerset County is a county in central New Jersey established in 1688, one of America's oldest counties, with about 345,000 residents in 21 municipalities covering 305 square miles.
Sorocaba
Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil; sorocabano; major interior industrial city, "Manchester Paulista", founded 1654; 723,682 census 2022, IDHM 0.798, seat of its metropolitan region.