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Sassari
Sassari (Tathari) is Sardinia's second city, provincial capital in northwest Sardinia, 120,497 residents in 2024, 547 km², 225 m altitude, home to the island's first university (1617), mayor Giuseppe Mascia since 2024.
Satara (city)
Satara (सातारा) is a city in Maharashtra, India, headquarters of Satara district at the foot of Ajinkyatara fort on NH-4, about 120 km south of Pune. Former Maratha capital under Rajaram and Shahu; population 120,079 (2011).
Satna
Satna: city and district in Baghelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India; named for the Satna river; founded 1865 by Maharaja Raghuraj Singh of Rewa; known as India's cement capital for its limestone-based cement industry.
Satu Mare
Satu Mare (Szatmárnémeti) is a city on the Someș in northwestern Romania, seat of Satu Mare County. Formed around Menumorut's castrum Zothmar, united with Mintiu by Charles VI's 1721 diploma; ceded to Hungary 1940, recovered 1944.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, "the Soo," is Michigan's oldest city, founded 1668 by Father Jacques Marquette on the St. Marys River. Home of the world's busiest Soo Locks, twin of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; 2020 population 13,337.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Canadian city on the St. Marys River across from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; incorporated 1912, population 72,051 (2021), third-largest Northern Ontario city, anchored by Algoma Steel.
Sausalito, California
Sausalito is a small waterfront city in southern Marin County, California, on Richardson's Bay across from San Francisco. Known for the WWII Marinship shipyard, floating homes, and ferry service; incorporated 1893, population about 7,300.
Sausses
Sausses is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department of southeastern France, on the right bank of the Var 12 km north of Entrevaux, with 132 inhabitants at the 2019 census.
Savalou
Savalou is a royal town in central Benin's Collines Department and the historic seat of the Kingdom of Savalou, founded by the Gbaguidi dynasty, whose kings still reign there.
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia: Georgia's oldest city, founded 1733 by James Oglethorpe as America's first planned city with 22 surviving squares; a major container port, population about 149,000, council-manager government, and high coastal flood risk.
Sāveh
Saveh (Sāveh, ساوه), city in northern Markazi province, Iran, halfway between Tehran and Hamadan; Seljuk Jameh Mosque, pomegranate and fig farming, legendary vanished Lake of Saveh, Saveh Dam (1994), saline polluted aquifer.
Savona
Savona, Ligurian port city and provincial capital on the Riviera di Ponente (58,581 inhabitants in 2024); ancient rival of Genoa, seat of the Priamar fortress, home of the Della Rovere popes, and port handling 16.3 Mt of cargo in 2024.
Sawangan
Sawangan is the name of several places in Indonesia, most notably a district in southern Depok City, West Java, home to about 206,515 people in 2025.
Saxony
Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen) is an eastern German federal state of about 4 million people with capital Dresden, refounded in 1990; Europe's largest semiconductor location (Silicon Saxony) and a leading ZEW-ranked business location.
Scarborough
Scarborough is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England, Britain's first seaside resort and the largest town on the Yorkshire Coast.
Scarlino
Scarlino is a hilltop comune in the Province of Grosseto, southern Tuscany, on the Gulf of Follonica. First recorded in 973 as an Aldobrandeschi curtis, later Pisan and Appiani; notable for Rocca Pisana excavations and the Vetricella site.
Sceaux-sur-Huisne
Sceaux-sur-Huisne, a Sarthe commune (INSEE 72331) in Pays de la Loire on the Huisne river, 587 inhabitants in 2023; Gallo-Roman villa remains, medieval manoir de la Cour, listed church, and the Bahier charcuterie plant as main employer.
Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek (Dutch: Schaarbeek), a bilingual municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, postal code 1030; first recorded as Scarenbecca in 1120, independent commune since 1795, about 129,000 inhabitants, town hall rebuilt after the 1911 fire.
Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen: Swiss cantonal capital on the Rhine at Germany's border, first documented 1045, joined the Confederation in 1501; known for the Munot, its old town, the Rhine Falls, and 90,285 canton residents (2025).
Schaumburg, Illinois
Schaumburg, Illinois: a village about 25 miles northwest of the Chicago Loop, incorporated March 7, 1956, transformed from a German farming township into a major suburban business hub anchored by Woodfield Mall (1971), with 78,723 residents at the 2020 census.
Schenectady, New York
Schenectady, New York: a Mohawk River city in the Capital Region, settled 1661, chartered 1798, home of General Electric's founding works, Union College, Proctors Theatre, and Mohawk Harbor; 2020 population 67,047.
Schkopau
Schkopau is a municipality in the Saalekreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, about 10 km south of Halle, best known for the Buna chemical works founded in 1936 and now operated by Dow.
Schkortleben
Schkortleben, a Saale village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, part of Weißenfels since 2010 with Kriechau; first recorded about 1300 as Zcurtelebe, manor owned by the Biesenrodt, Breitenbauch, and Scharf families until 1945.
Schlossau
Schlossau is a village in the municipality of Mudau in the Odenwald region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, best known for the Roman fort that stood there on the Odenwaldlimes.
Schwerin
Schwerin is a city in northern Germany and the state capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, founded by Henry the Lion in 1160 and known for its island castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2024.
Sciacca
Sciacca (ash-Shāqqah) is a fishing port and spa town in the province of Agrigento on Sicily's southwestern coast, founded as a thermal dependency of Selinunte, known for Monte Kronio's sulfur springs, coral, ceramics, and its old carnival.
Scotts Valley, California
Scotts Valley is a general law city in Santa Cruz County, California, incorporated August 2, 1966 after a contested 1964 vote. Population about 12,000; home to Seagate's origins, a 1,220-unit RHNA obligation, and a planned 58-acre Town Center.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale, Arizona: Sonoran Desert city northeast of Phoenix founded by Winfield Scott in 1888, incorporated 1951; about 243,000-246,000 residents, 184.5 square miles, $3.7 billion tourism economy, CAP water supply, and Old Town arts district.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton, historically Slocum Hollow, is a city in northeastern Pennsylvania and the seat of Lackawanna County, once the "Anthracite Capital of the World" and home of the country's first electric trolley system in 1886.
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe is the largest town in North Lincolnshire, England (about 80,000 people), an industrial town built on iron and steel since 1864 and home to British Steel's works, the UK's last blast furnaces making virgin steel, nationalized in 2026.