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Sivas
Sivas is a province and city in central Turkey, second largest by area at 28,488 km², with 631,401 people (2025). Known for the UNESCO-listed Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (1985) and the 1919 National Struggle congress.
Siverek
Siverek is a district of Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey, 96 km from Şanlıurfa; 274,588 residents (2024), 4,314 km², 840 m elevation, roughly 7,000 years of settlement, briefly a province 1923–1926.
Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة)
Siwa Oasis (واحة سيوة) is Egypt's largest and most remote Western Desert oasis, home to the Oracle of Amun visited by Alexander the Great, a Berber-speaking Siwi community, salt lakes, and a 3-billion-EGP water restoration project.
Siyu
Siyu is a Swahili settlement on Pate Island in Kenya's Lamu Archipelago, a former city-state known for resisting Omani rule and for its 19th-century Siyu Fort.
Skagway, Alaska
Skagway, Alaska: first-class borough at the head of Taiya Inlet, founded in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, Alaska's first incorporated city (1900). About 800–1,100 residents host 1.3 million cruise passengers a year on the White Pass & Yukon Route railway.
Skedsmo
Skedsmo was a municipality in Akershus, Norway, northeast of Oslo with center Lillestrøm; formed 1962 by merging Skedsmo and Lillestrøm, dissolved 1 January 2020 into Lillestrøm municipality with Fet and Sørum; 55,652 inhabitants in 2019.
Skegness
Skegness is a Lincolnshire seaside resort on the North Sea coast, developed as a planned Victorian resort by the ninth Earl of Scarbrough after the 1873 railway, later home to Butlin's amusements.
Skikda
Skikda (سكيكدة), ancient Rusicade, is a Mediterranean port city in northeastern Algeria, formerly French Philippeville (1838-1962). Now Algeria's major petrochemical hub with the country's largest refinery and a 4-train Sonatrach LNG terminal.
Skokie, Illinois
Skokie, Illinois, a Cook County village of about 67,000 near Chicago, incorporated as Niles Centre in 1888, known for the 1977 Nazi march controversy, the Illinois Holocaust Museum, and its diverse population.
Skopje (Скопје)
Skopje (Скопје), capital and largest city of North Macedonia on the Vardar river; rebuilt after the 1963 earthquake under Kenzo Tange's UN plan, reshaped by the Skopje 2014 project, and home to a third of the country's population.
Skradin
Skradin (ancient Scardona) is a small Croatian town on the Krka River in Dalmatia, 19 km north of Šibenik, a former Liburnian port, Roman municipium, bishopric, and Šubić seat, now the gateway to Krka National Park.
Slavutych (Славутич)
Slavutych (Славутич), the last planned Soviet city, was built from 1986 for Chornobyl NPP workers after the disaster, with districts by eight republics; population about 20,000-24,000.
Sligo
Sligo (Irish: Sligeach) is the county town of County Sligo in north-west Ireland, on the Atlantic coast, and the largest town in Connacht with 20,608 people at the 2022 census.
Slough
Slough, England, is a Berkshire town about 20 miles west of central London, known for the Slough Trading Estate, the largest business park in Europe under single ownership.
Slovenj Gradec
Slovenj Gradec is a town in the Mislinja valley, Koroška, Slovenia; seat of the region's only urban municipality (17,063 residents, 2026). Founded by the Counts of Andechs, granted town rights in 1267, Peace Messenger City since 1989.
Słubice
Słubice, a town in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland, on the Oder opposite Frankfurt (Oder); formerly Frankfurt's Dammvorstadt suburb, Polish since 1945, seat of Słubice County and home of the first Wikipedia monument. Distinct from the Mazovian Gmina Słubice.
Slum
Slum: an urban area with housing lacking improved water, sanitation, adequate space, durability, or tenure security (UN-Habitat definition). 1.16 billion people, one in four urban residents, lived in slums in 2024; upgrading outperforms relocation in cost and outcomes.
Smolensk (Смоленск)
Smolensk (Смоленск), a Hero City in western Russia on the Dnieper, administrative center of Smolensk Oblast; area 166.15 km², population about 320,000, with a 1595–1602 fortress wall and a history of Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian rule.
Smolyan (Смолян)
Smolyan (Смолян), formerly Pashmakli until 1934, is a mountain town and district center in the Central Rhodopes of southern Bulgaria, formed in 1960 by merging Smolyan, Ezerovo, Raykovo, and Ustovo; district population 88,816 (2025), lowest birth rate in Bulgaria, Pamporovo resort nearby.
Smyrna (Σμύρνη)
Smyrna (Σμύρνη), also Smyrne, was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor at modern İzmir, Turkey, ranking among the largest cities of Roman Asia.
Smyrna, Georgia
Smyrna, Georgia, the "Jonquil City," is a Cobb County city about 10 miles northwest of Atlanta, incorporated in 1872, with a 2020 census population of 55,663 and an ongoing downtown redevelopment.
Sneedville, Tennessee
Sneedville, Tennessee, county seat of Hancock County, formerly Greasy Rock, named for attorney W. H. Sneed; incorporated 1850, population about 1,364, associated with the Melungeons of Newman's Ridge.
Snillfjord
Snillfjord, a former municipality in Trøndelag, Norway (1924–2019), around Snillfjorden and Åstfjorden with center Krokstadøra; uniquely split into three in 2020 among Hitra, Heim, and Orkland.
Soacha
Soacha, a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, directly south of Bogotá; also called Soacha-Cundinamarca. Seventh most populous Colombian city, 808,288 census inhabitants, major migrant destination, TransMilenio corridor and Metro Line 3 terminus.
Sobral
Sobral, Ceará, Brazil: municipality of 203,023 (2022 census) on the Acaraú River, 235 km from Fortaleza; founded as a vila in 1773, commercial hub of the northern backlands, site of the 1919 eclipse that confirmed general relativity.
Sochi (Сочи)
Sochi (Сочи) is Russia's largest Black Sea resort city in Krasnodar Krai, subtropical on the coast with snowy Caucasus slopes at Krasnaya Polyana, and host of the record-cost 2014 Winter Olympics.
Socorro, Santander
Socorro, also written El Socorro, is a municipality and provincial capital in Santander, Colombia, the main seat of the 1781 Comunero insurrection and of the 1810 declaration of independence.
Sodankylä
Sodankylä is a municipality of about 8,000 people in central Finnish Lapland, known for the Kevitsa Mine, Midnight Sun Film Festival, and the FMI Arctic Space Centre research station.
Sodo
Sodo (Wolaita Sodo) is a city in southern Ethiopia, capital of Wolaita Zone and the South Ethiopia regional state, about 330 km south of Addis Ababa; founded as a Menelik II military center, a six-route transport hub with rapid urban growth.
Sofia (София)
Sofia (София), capital and largest city of Bulgaria, formerly Serdica, Sredets, and Triaditsa; capital since 1879, in the Sofia Valley at about 550 m altitude, with roughly 1.3–1.8 million residents and about 43% of national GDP.