Local administrative territories

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 Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire: unitary authority in the West of England, north and east of Bristol, created in 1996 from Kingswood and Northavon after Avon's abolition; 290,423 residents (2021), aerospace and advanced manufacturing economy.

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire: metropolitan county in northern England with boroughs Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield; former county council abolished; now led by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and its mayor.

Southampton, New York

Southampton, New York: a Suffolk County town on Long Island's South Fork, settled 1640 from Lynn, Massachusetts at Conscience Point; claims first English colony in New York, disputed by Southold; population 69,036 (2020).

Spydeberg

Spydeberg: former municipality in Østfold, Norway (municipal number 0123), on the west side of Glomma; merged into Indre Østfold in 2020; site of the 1814 Spydeberg Council at the parsonage.

St. Marys, GA Micro Area

St. Marys, GA Micro Area (CBSA 41220) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Camden County, Georgia, population 55,105 (2022), part of the Jacksonville-St. Marys-Palatka combined statistical area.

Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality (Stockholms kommun) is Sweden's most populous municipality, near one million residents, governed by a city council, with 11 district areas, 132 districts, and climate-positive-by-2030 goals.

Stolichna Obshtina

Stolichna Obshtina (Столична община), Sofia Municipality, is Bulgaria's capital municipality, also a region, with 24 districts, 38 localities, and 1,303,813 residents (2025), the country's largest municipality.

Subdivisions of England

Subdivisions of England: nine regions (1994), 317 local authorities in two-tier county/district or single-tier unitary, metropolitan borough, and London borough forms, plus wards and 10,480 parishes.

Subdivisions of Scotland

Subdivisions of Scotland: 32 unitary council areas since April 1996 (set by the 1994 Act), subdivided into 355 electoral wards and about 1,200 voluntary community councils; populations range from Glasgow City's 631,970 to Orkney's 22,000.

Suffolk

Suffolk, rural county in East of England (1,466 sq mi, population over 786,000, largest town Ipswich). Two-tier local government of county plus five district councils; 2026 plan for three unitary authorities withdrawn September 2026.

Suicheng

Suicheng (遂城) names several Chinese places: the 256,665-person subdistrict seat of Suining County in Xuzhou, Jiangsu; Suixi County's seat subdistrict in Guangdong (est. 2022); and the historical Hebei county called 'Iron Suicheng' for Yang Yanzhao's defense against Liao sieges.

Summit County, Ohio, United States

Summit County, Ohio: northeastern Ohio county with county seat Akron, formed March 3, 1840 from Medina, Stark, and Portage counties and named for the Ohio and Erie Canal's Portage Summit; fourth most populous Ohio county, about 538,000 residents.

Surrey

Surrey, England, is a county south-west of London with 1,203,108 residents at the 2021 Census, its 12 councils due to become two unitary councils in 2027.

Surry County, Virginia

Surry County, Virginia: rural county formed in 1652 from James City County, named for Surrey, England; population 6,561 (2020); linked to Jamestown by the free Jamestown-Scotland Ferry; home of Bacon's Castle and Chippokes State Park.

Surulere

Surulere is a residential and commercial Local Government Area on the Lagos mainland, Nigeria, created in 1991, home to the National Stadium (1972), Teslim Balogun Stadium, Fela Kuti's Kalakuta Republic, and the Ojuelegba transport hub.

Sussex

Sussex is a historic county on the south coast of England, divided since the late 19th century into East Sussex and West Sussex, with Brighton and Hove separate.

Sutherland

Sutherland (Cataibh) is a historic county in far northern Scotland, named from Norse Suðrland, 'southern land'. Nearly 2,500 sq mi with about 13,500 people, county town Dornoch, now within Highland council area.

Sutherland Shire

Sutherland Shire, known as "the Shire", is a 369 km2 local government area in southern Sydney, NSW, home to about 235,000 people, incorporated in 1906, site of Cook's 1770 Kurnell landing.

Sviatoshynskyi Raion

Sviatoshynskyi Raion (Святошинський район) is a western administrative district of Kyiv, created in 2001 from the Leningradskyi Raion; third largest by area, about 318,000-340,000 residents, named after the historic Sviatoshyn locality.

Taboão da Serra

Taboão da Serra, a municipality in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, Brazil; most densely populated municipality in Brazil (13,416.81 inhabitants/km², 2022 census), emancipated from Itapecerica da Serra in 1959.

Tacna (district)

Tacna district (UBIGEO 230101) is the seat district of Tacna province and department, Peru, containing Tacna city, the Heroic City. Population 94,428 (2007 census), falling to a projected 80,070 by 2016.

Tana Toraja Regency

Tana Toraja Regency (Kabupaten Tana Toraja), a regency in highland South Sulawesi, Indonesia, seat Makale, area 2,054.3 km², 19 districts, 280,794 people (2020 census), split from North Toraja in 2008, famed for tongkonan houses and Rambu Solo' funerals.