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Shawnee, Oklahoma
Shawnee, Oklahoma: county seat of Pottawatomie County, about 35 miles east of Oklahoma City on I-40. Founded in the September 22, 1891 land run; population 31,377 (2020); home to four tribal governments, five casinos, and the International Finals Youth Rodeo.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Sheboygan, Wisconsin: Lake Michigan county-seat city, incorporated as a village in 1846 and Wisconsin's sixth city in 1853; 49,929 residents in 2020, known as the 'Malibu of the Midwest.'
Shechem (שכם)
Shechem (שכם), ancient Canaanite and Israelite city at Tell Balata near Nablus between Mounts Gerizim and Ebal; fortified from about 2000 BC, ruled by Labayu per the Amarna Letters, destroyed 128 BC by John Hyrcanus.
Sheffield
Sheffield, South Yorkshire's largest city and historic "Steel City", is a Core Cities Group borough of about 582,000 people beside the Peak District, famed for cutlery and steelmaking and now a £2.01 billion visitor economy.
Shekhupura
Sheikhupura (Shekhupura), industrial city and district headquarters in Punjab, Pakistan, 36 km from Lahore; founded under Emperor Jahangir, home to Hiran Minar and Sheikhupura Fort, 591,424 residents in 2023 census.
Shenyang (沈阳)
Shenyang (沈阳), historically Mukden and Fengtian, is the capital of Liaoning Province, northeast China. It is a massive industrial center with 9.276 million residents as of 2025.
Shenzhen (深圳)
Shenzhen (深圳), a sub-provincial city in southern Guangdong bordering Hong Kong, became one of China's first Special Economic Zones in 1980 and grew from about 20,000 residents into a megacity of nearly 20 million and a global technology hub.
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke is a city in southeastern Quebec, Canada, the seat of the Estrie region at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers, about 150 km east of Montreal.
Sheridan, Wyoming
Sheridan, Wyoming: county seat of Sheridan County at the eastern foot of the Bighorn Mountains on I-90. Founded 1882 by John D. Loucks, incorporated 1884; population about 20,000 (2025 estimate); major visitor economy with the WYO Rodeo and historic Main Street.
Shibīn al Kawm
Shibīn al Kawm (شبين الكوم), also spelled Shibin el Kom or Shebin el-Kom, is the capital of Monufia Governorate in Egypt's Nile Delta, about 60–80 km north of Cairo, with roughly 275,000 residents, Menoufia University, and a textile-based economy.
Shibuya (渋谷区)
Shibuya (渋谷区, Shibuya-ku) is one of Tokyo's 23 special wards, formed October 1, 1932 from the merger of Shibuya, Sendagaya, and Yoyohata towns; it contains Shibuya, Harajuku, Omotesando, Ebisu, and Daikanyama.
Shihezi
Shihezi (石河子) is a county-level city in northern Xinjiang directly administered by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, run jointly with the 8th Division. Founded by Wang Zhen's troops in 1950 on Gobi desert, it is known as the first military-reclamation city, about 94% Han, with 44% green coverage.
Shijiazhuang (石家庄)
Shijiazhuang (石家庄) is the capital of Hebei Province, China, a railway-hub industrial city of 11.2 million. Key facts: 2025 GDP 865.17 billion yuan, provincial seat since 1968, metropolitan circle approved 2025.
Shijie
Shijie (石碣镇) is a town in northern Dongguan, Guangdong, on the Dongjiang River bordering Guangzhou's Zengcheng District. Known as the first China Famous Town of Electronic Information Industry, a major vegetable supplier to Hong Kong, and the hometown of Ming general Yuan Chonghuan.
Shikarpur, Sindh
Shikarpur (Urdu: شكار پور), historic trading city and district headquarters in northern Sindh, Pakistan, founded 1617 by Bahadur Khan Daudpota; caravan-trade and banking hub on the Bolan Pass route, protected heritage since 1998.
Shillong
Shillong, capital of Meghalaya in northeast India, also called U-Shyllong after a Khasi deity; Assam's capital 1874-1972, hill city at 1,496 m, education and administrative hub.
Shiloh (biblical city)
Shiloh (Tel Shiloh, Khirbet Seilun) is a West Bank archaeological site identified with the biblical city housing the Tabernacle; excavated by Danish and Israeli teams, destroyed around 1050 BC, still under excavation.
Shimla (शिमला)
Shimla (शिमला), capital of Himachal Pradesh, India; hill station at 2,205 m; summer capital of British India 1864–1947; UNESCO Kalka–Shimla Railway; 169,578 residents (2011).
Shimoga
Shimoga, officially Shivamogga (ಶಿವಮೊಗ್ಗ), is a city of about 322,000 people on the Tunga river in Karnataka, India, and the administrative headquarters of Shivamogga district.
Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki (下関市) is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, at the westernmost end of Honshu on the Kanmon Straits. Largest city in Yamaguchi; Japan's top fugu handler; site of the 1185 Genji-Heike naval battle.
Shinjuku (新宿区)
Shinjuku (新宿区) is a Tokyo special ward formed in 1947 from Yotsuya, Ushigome, and Yodobashi; named for the Edo-era Naito Shinjuku post town; 18.22 sq km, 352,717 residents, home of Japan's busiest station.
Shiraz (شیراز)
Shiraz (شیراز), capital of Fars province in southwestern Iran, sixth-largest city (~1.5 million), famed for gardens, wine, poets Sa'di and Hafez, Zand-era monuments, and nearby Persepolis.
Shirebrook
Shirebrook is a former colliery town in Bolsover District, Derbyshire, England, transformed by the 1896 Shirebrook Colliery (closed 1993) and now known for the Sports Direct warehouse on the old pit site.
Shivpuri
Shivpuri (शिवपुरी), formerly Sipri, a city and district headquarters in northern Madhya Pradesh, India; summer capital of the Scindia rulers of Gwalior, Mughal hunting grounds, site of Tatya Tope's execution, and home to Madhav National Park.
Shizuishan
Shizuishan (石嘴山) is a prefecture-level city in northern Ningxia, China, founded in 1960 as the region's first state coal industrial base, known for anthracite, now transforming industrially, with Dawukou, Huinong districts and Pingluo County.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka (静岡市) is the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, a government-designated city since 2005 with three wards (Aoi, Suruga, Shimizu), about 667,500 residents, on Suruga Bay an hour from Tokyo by Shinkansen.
Shkodër
Shkodër (Shkodra, historically Scutari) is a city and municipality in northwestern Albania on Lake Shkodër, with about 214,897 residents, four major natural-tourism landscapes, and a €100 million Gateway to the Alps infrastructure program.
Shlisselburg (Шлиссельбург)
Shlisselburg (Шлиссельбург), formerly Oreshek and Nöteborg, is a town in Leningrad Oblast at the Neva's source from Lake Ladoga, founded 1323, site of the Treaty of Nöteborg, Peter the Great's 1702 reconquest, a tsarist political prison, and a WWII fortress defense.
Shouguang
Shouguang (寿光市) is a county-level city of Weifang, Shandong, on Laizhou Bay. Known as China's 'home of vegetables' with 157,000 greenhouses and 4.5 million tonnes annual output, and 'sea salt capital' with 4.2 million tonnes salt capacity.
Shravanabelagola (ಶ್ರವಣಬೆಳಗೊಳ)
Shravanabelagola (ಶ್ರವಣಬೆಳಗೊಳ), also Shravana Belgola, is a Digambara Jain pilgrimage town in Hassan district, Karnataka, home to the 58-foot monolithic Bahubali (Gommateshwara) statue of 981 CE and the 12-yearly Mahamastakabhisheka festival, next held in 2030.