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Santo Domingo Oeste
Santo Domingo Oeste, municipality of Santo Domingo province, Dominican Republic, created by Law 163-01 in 2001; western edge of the capital, 2022 census population 410,578, Herrera industrial zone, Río Haina port.
Santol, Central Luzon
Santol, Central Luzon: actually Santol, La Union, a landlocked fourth-class highland municipality in Ilocos Region, Philippines; 11 barangays, 14,877 residents (2024), township 1908, regular municipality 1949 by EO 214.
Santos, São Paulo
Santos is a coastal port city in São Paulo state, Brazil, founded in 1546, whose port is the largest in Latin America, handling about 30% of Brazil's foreign trade.
Sanya (三亚)
Sanya (三亚), also known as Sanya City, is a prefecture-level city on the southern tip of Hainan Island, China, known for its beaches and called the "Oriental Hawaii."
São Bernardo do Campo
São Bernardo do Campo, a municipality in Greater ABC, São Paulo state, Brazil; industrial city of Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz plants, 810,729 residents (2022), birthplace of Lula's union movement.
São Cristóvão
São Cristóvão is a municipality in Sergipe, Brazil, founded in 1590; the fourth oldest city in Brazil, it was Sergipe's capital until 1855 and its Praça São Francisco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro
São Gonçalo (RJ), Brazil: second most populous municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, on eastern Guanabara Bay. Founded 1579 by Gonçalo Gonçalves, emancipated from Niterói in 1890; former industrial hub nicknamed Manchester Fluminense.
São José de Ribamar
São José de Ribamar (Maranhão, Brazil), a municipality on Ilha de Upaon-Açu in the Grande São Luís region; 244,579 residents (2022 census), pilgrimage center of Saint Joseph with a 13-day September festival, created 1913, renamed 1969.
São Luís, Maranhão
São Luís (São Luís do Maranhão), capital of Maranhão in northeast Brazil, founded by the French in 1612, later Dutch-occupied and Portuguese; UNESCO World Heritage historic center since 1997, home of Bumba-meu-boi, population about 1.04 million (2022).
São Tomé
São Tomé, capital and largest city of São Tomé and Príncipe on Ana Chaves Bay, about 70,000 residents (2012), founded by Portuguese settlers after 1470, with a planned colonial core, peri-urban fringe, and the EN1 corridor carrying 60 percent of GDP.
Sapele
Sapele (Urhiapele) is a port town in Delta State, Nigeria, on the Ethiope River; an Okpe-Urhobo village made a British colonial township in 1891-1917 and a timber port that gave its name to sapele hardwood.
Sapporo (札幌)
Sapporo (札幌) is the capital and largest city of Hokkaido, Japan, founded in 1869 on a planned grid and one of the snowiest large cities in the world.
Saputara (સાપુતારા)
Saputara (સાપુતારા), the 'Abode of Serpents', is Gujarat's only hill station, a planned resort at about 1,000 m in the Sahyadri range of Dang district, known for its lake, tribal culture, and annual Monsoon Festival.
Sarajevo
Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a valley city of four municipalities and roughly 275,000–450,000 people; host of the 1984 Winter Olympics, besieged 1992–96, and among Europe's most winter-polluted capitals.
Sarandë
Sarandë (Saranda) is a coastal city and municipality in southern Albania on the Ionian Sea opposite Corfu, the largest town of the Albanian Riviera, ancient Onhezmi, named for the Monastery of the 40 Saints, with ferries to Corfu and Butrint nearby.
Saransk
Saransk (Саранск) is the capital of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, founded in 1641 as a frontier fortress on the Atemar abatis line; about 310,900 residents in 2024, 642 km east of Moscow, and a 2018 FIFA World Cup host city.
Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota, Florida: Gulf Coast city, seat of Sarasota County; 54,842 residents in 2020, 58,458 estimated 2025. Known for Ringling circus heritage, beaches, tourism economy, aging population, and hurricane recovery costs.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs, New York: a Saratoga County city of about 28,500 built around naturally carbonated mineral springs, the Queen of Spas resort era, Saratoga Race Course (opened 1863), and Saratoga Spa State Park.
Saratoga, California
Saratoga, California: Santa Clara County residential city of about 30,400, incorporated 1956; began as an 1848 sawmill settlement, named 1865 for Saratoga Springs, New York, once a prune-orchard center.
Saratov
Saratov (Саратов), city on the Volga River and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia; founded 1590 as a fortress, a milling and trading hub by 1900, home of Saratov State University (1909) and Russia's first provincial conservatory (1912).
Sardis
Sardis (Lydian Sfard, Greek Sardeis), ancient capital of Lydia at modern Sart, Manisa, Turkey; seat of Gyges to Croesus, birthplace of coinage, Persian satrapal capital, and site of the largest known ancient synagogue, excavated by Harvard-Cornell since 1958.
Sarepta
Sarepta (Sarafand, Lebanon), Phoenician coastal city between Sidon and Tyre; excavated by James B. Pritchard 1969-1974, the main excavated Phoenician homeland site, with pottery and purple-dye industries, Tanit-Ashtart shrine, and inscriptions.
Sargodha (سرگودھا)
Sargodha (سرگودھا) is a city and district in central Punjab, Pakistan, founded in 1903 as a Lower Jhelum Canal Colony market town. Known as Pakistan's Citrus Capital, it had 4,334,448 district residents in 2023 and hosts Pakistan's largest PAF airbase.
Sari (city)
Sari (ساری), capital of Mazandaran province in northern Iran between the Alborz foothills and the Caspian Sea; largest city of the province, caviar and paper industry center, ECO tourism capital 2022, site of Baha'i Constitutional Revolution activity.
Sariwŏn-si
Sariwŏn-si (사리원시, 沙里院市), also spelled Sariwon, is the provincial capital of North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, about 57 km from Pyongyang; a rail junction, agricultural center, and city of roughly 308,000 people.
Sarnia
Sarnia is a city of about 72,000 in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, at the mouth of the St. Clair River on Lake Huron, opposite Port Huron, Michigan.
Sasaram
Sasaram (सासाराम) is a town in Rohtas district, Bihar, India, famed for the 1540–1545 red sandstone tomb of Sher Shah Suri in an artificial lake, plus tombs of Hasan Khan Sur and Salim Shah, on NH2 with rail station SSM.
Sasbach
Sasbach names two municipalities in Baden-Württemberg: Sasbach in the Ortenaukreis (5,348 residents, first recorded 750, battle of 1675, Turenne monument) and Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl in Emmendingen (Sponeck Roman fort and castle, Alte Limburg).
Sasebo
Sasebo (佐世保市) is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, on a sheltered natural harbor. Founded as a village, made a naval district seat in 1889 and a city in 1902; now hosts U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo and JMSDF units.
Saskatoon
Saskatoon, largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River; founded 1882 as a temperance colony, incorporated 1906, population about 308,626 in 2024 with the province's fastest growth.