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Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana: parish seat of Caddo Parish on the Red River, founded 1836 and named for Henry Miller Shreve, who cleared the Great Raft. Population 187,593 (2020), declining; economy anchored by Barksdale AFB, Amazon data centers, casinos, and tourism.
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury, county town of Shropshire, England, is a market town of about 77,000 people in a loop of the River Severn near the Welsh border, first recorded in 901, wealthy on the medieval wool trade, site of the 1403 battle and the world's first iron-framed building.
Shrīrāmpur, West Bengal
Shrīrāmpur (Serampore, Frederiksnagore), a city and municipality in Hooghly district, West Bengal, on the Hooghly River about 24 km north of Kolkata; a Danish-Norwegian trading station 1755–1845, ceded to Britain in 1845, home of Serampore College (1818).
Shuangyashan
Shuangyashan (双鸭山) is a coal-mining prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang, China, on the Sanjiang Plain facing Russia across the Wusuli River; 4 districts, 4 counties, 11.7 billion tons of coal reserves, 2024 GDP 55.74 billion yuan.
Shubrā al Khaymah
Shubrā al Khaymah (شبرا الخيمة), Shubra el Kheima, is a dense industrial city in Qalyubia, Egypt, at Greater Cairo's northern edge; about 1.28 million people on 30.1 km², historically a textile center, now commerce and services led.
Shuozhou
Shuozhou (朔州) is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi, China, bordering Datong and Inner Mongolia. A major coal and coal-power base holding one sixth of Shanxi's coal reserves, it is also home to the 1056 Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, China's oldest and tallest all-wood pagoda.
Shusha (Շուշի)
Shusha (Şuşa; Armenian Shushi, Շուշի) is a mountain city in Nagorno-Karabakh founded in 1753 by Panah Ali Khan as capital of the Karabakh khanate, occupied 1992-2020, now Azerbaijan's declared cultural capital.
Shyamnagar
Shyamnagar is the name of several places in Bengal: a town of about 442,000 people in West Bengal, India, and a coastal sub-district in Bangladesh.
Shymkent (city)
Shymkent (Шымкент, formerly Chimkent) is Kazakhstan's third-largest city and a city of republican significance since 2018, an industrial and transport hub of the south near Tashkent, with about 1.32 million residents in 2026.
Si Racha
Si Racha (ศรีราชา) is a coastal town and district in Chon Buri Province, Thailand, on the Eastern Seaboard between Chon Buri and Pattaya; namesake of sriracha sauce, home to Laem Chabang port industry and a large Japanese expatriate community.
Sialkot (سیالکوٹ)
Sialkot (سیالکوٹ), Punjab, Pakistan: export-manufacturing city known for surgical instruments, sports goods, and leather; district population 4,499,394 (2023); home to Sialkot International Airport.
Šiauliai
Šiauliai is a city in northern Lithuania and the country's fourth largest, dating its founding to the Battle of Saulė of 1236 and long known for leather making.
Sibiu
Sibiu (Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben), Transylvanian county seat in Romania founded by Saxon colonists, first documented 1191; Habsburg-era capital of Transylvania and 2007 European Capital of Culture.
Sibu
Sibu is a river town in central Sarawak, Malaysia, at the confluence of the Rajang and Igan rivers; district population about 257,100 (2026), third in Sarawak; Foochow-founded in 1901, timber-trade hub, now pursuing city status and a low-carbon economy.
Sidi Bel Abbes
Sidi Bel Abbes (سيدي بلعباس), city and wilaya capital in northwestern Algeria on the Mekerra river; founded 1843 as a French military redoubt, Foreign Legion headquarters until 1962; urban population about 229,000 in 2020.
Sidney, British Columbia
Sidney, British Columbia: a town of 12,318 on the Saanich Peninsula, 26 km north of Victoria, incorporated 1952 (town 1967), named for Lt. Frederick William Sidney; W̱SÁNEĆ site SET,TINES; ferry and airport hub with 468-unit housing target.
Sidon
Sidon (Saida), ancient Phoenician port city in southern Lebanon between Tyre and Beirut; Bronze Age origins, British Museum College Site excavations, royal necropolis sarcophagi, and Lebanon's largest smaller public port.
Siegen
Siegen is a university city of about 102,000 people in southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, shaped by 2,500 years of iron mining and now the University of Siegen's home.
Siem Reap (សៀមរាប)
Siem Reap (សៀមរាប) is a city in northwest Cambodia, provincial capital and gateway to the Angkor World Heritage Site. Tourism drives its economy; a new international airport opened in 2023.
Siena
Siena, known in Roman times as Saena or Sena Iulia, is a Tuscan city in central Italy whose medieval historic center became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Sierra Vista, Arizona: largest city in southeastern Arizona, in Cochise County south of Interstate 10, adjacent to Fort Huachuca. Incorporated 1956; 2020 population 45,308; regional hub near the San Pedro River.
Siesbach
Siesbach is a Hunsrück village in Birkenfeld county, Rhineland-Palatinate, first recorded in 1284. It is known for the Gallo-Roman burial mound "Kipp" (167–175 AD) and the early Celtic princely grave "Ameis".
Sīkar
Sikar (सीकर), city and district headquarters in Shekhawati, northeastern Rajasthan, India, on NH 52 between Agra and Churu; former largest thikana of Jaipur state, 2011 district population 2,677,333, known for havelis, peasant struggles, and water scarcity.
Sikasso (city)
Sikasso (Sikaso, ߛߌߞߊߛߏ߬), southern Mali city, capital of Sikasso Region; former capital of the Kénédougou kingdom under the Traoré, famed for its tata wall, taken by France in 1898; Mali's second city, cotton and mango trade hub near Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.
Silchar
Silchar, headquarters of Cachar district in Assam's Barak Valley on the Barak River, is Assam's second largest town, a commercial hub for Tripura, Manipur, and Mizoram, and highly flood-prone, notably in the 2022 flood.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley: southern San Francisco Bay Area technology cluster centered on Santa Clara County, named by Don Hoefler in 1971. Grew from Stanford Research Park and Fairchild semiconductors into the world's leading hub for venture capital, software, and AI.
Siliguri (শিলিগুড়ি)
Siliguri (শিলিগুড়ি), West Bengal city anchoring the Siliguri Corridor or Chicken's Neck, the roughly 20-km-wide sole land link to northeast India; gateway city built on tea, timber, tourism, transport, with rapid urban growth.
Sillingy
Sillingy, a commune in Haute-Savoie, France, west of Annecy in the Communauté de Communes Fier & Usses; known for the Miroir de Faille fault mirror (~2,000 m²), the Roman-era Bains de Bromines, and the Château des Fées site on the Mandallaz.
Silvassa
Silvassa (Gujarati: સેલ્વાસ) is the capital of India's Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, an industrial town between Gujarat and Maharashtra; 98,265 residents (2011), liberated from Portuguese rule in 1954.
Silver City, New Mexico
Silver City, New Mexico: Grant County seat founded about 1870 after silver was found at Chloride Flat, incorporated under its 1878 territorial charter, population 9,704 (2020), home of Western New Mexico University.