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South Gate, California
South Gate, California, a city in Los Angeles County incorporated January 20, 1923, named for the south gate of the Rancho San Antonio land grant; about 90,000 residents, Council-Manager government, and a twentieth-century industrial base.
South Lake Tahoe, California
South Lake Tahoe is a general law city in El Dorado County, California, incorporated November 30, 1965 on the south shore of Lake Tahoe at 6,237 feet. Population 21,330 (2020); tourism-driven economy with severe housing vacancy and vacation-rental disputes.
South Padre Island, Texas
South Padre Island, Texas: resort town at the southern tip of Padre Island in Cameron County, between the Gulf of Mexico and Laguna Madre. Incorporated 1973; tourism-driven, over 4 million annual visits, connected by the Queen Isabella Causeway.
South Shields
South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, at the mouth of the River Tyne; Roman Arbeia, medieval Caer Urfa, a coal, salt and shipbuilding town of about 73,000 people, home of Catherine Cookson and the Shields Ferry.
South Tangerang
South Tangerang (Kota Tangerang Selatan, Tangsel) is a city in Banten, Indonesia, split from Tangerang Regency by Law 51/2008 on 26 November 2008; about 1.5 million people, 7 districts, private new towns BSD City, Bintaro Jaya, Alam Sutera.
Southampton
Southampton, England's south-coast unitary-authority port city (pop. ~259,000), home to the UK's busiest cruise terminal and second largest container port, shaped by Titanic, Blitz and D-Day history and 2026–2028 devolution.
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea is a city and unitary authority in Essex on the Thames Estuary, about 40 miles from London. Known for the world's longest pleasure pier (1.34 miles) and city status granted in 2022 honoring Sir David Amess; population about 180,700.
Southfield, Michigan
Southfield, Michigan is an inner-ring Detroit suburb in Oakland County, incorporated April 28, 1958, with about 76,000 residents, over 27 million square feet of office space, and 774 acres of park land.
Southlake, Texas
Southlake, Texas: affluent Tarrant County suburb northwest of Fort Worth-Dallas, incorporated 1956 near Lake Grapevine, population 31,265 (2020), served by Carroll ISD, median home value about $1 million.
Southport
Southport is a seaside resort in Sefton, Merseyside, England, founded in 1792 by William Sutton. Known for Lord Street, the 1860 Southport Pier (Britain's second longest, closed since 2022), Victorian parks, and the Sefton Coast dunes.
Soyo
Soyo (formerly Santo António do Zaire) is a port city in Zaire Province, Angola, at the Congo River mouth; Diogo Cão landed there in 1482, and it now hosts the Port of Soyo, Kwanda base, and the Angola LNG plant.
Spa town
Spa town: a settlement built around a natural mineral or thermal spring, organized for bathing, drinking cures, leisure and sociability; flourished in Europe circa 1700 to the 1930s, exemplified by the eleven UNESCO Great Spa Towns of Europe.
Spanish Town
Spanish Town, historically St. Jago de la Vega, is a town in Jamaica. Founded by the Spanish about 1534, it was the island's capital until 1872.
Sparks, Nevada
Sparks, Nevada: railroad city east of Reno in the Truckee Meadows, founded 1904 by Southern Pacific, incorporated 1905, named for Governor John Sparks; about 112,000 residents, Rail City nickname, Sparks Marina, and limited room left to grow.
Sparta (Σπάρτη)
Sparta (Σπάρτη) was the oligarchic Greek polis of Laconia, ruled by two kings, with the agoge training system, helot serf-labor, and the Peloponnesian League; its ancient city was destroyed in 396 AD and modern Sparta founded in 1834.
Sparta, Laconia
Sparta (Σπάρτη) is the modern capital town of Laconia in the Peloponnese, founded in 1834 over the ruins of ancient Sparta, destroyed by the Visigoths in 396 AD; nearby are the Artemis Orthia sanctuary, theatre, Menelaion and Byzantine Mystras.
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg, South Carolina: Upcountry city, county seat of Spartanburg County, founded 1831, incorporated 1881. Former textile hub (Lowell of the South), now home to BMW Plant Spartanburg and among the fastest-growing US metros.
Speyer
Speyer (Spira), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: kreisfreie city of ~51,000 on the Rhine with Speyer Cathedral, the imperial Salian mausoleum, the ShUM Judenhof Jewish heritage site (UNESCO 2021), and the Technik Museum.
Spiez
Spiez is a municipality on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland, canton of Bern, Switzerland, with five Baeuerten, about 13,400 residents, Spiez Castle, and Bern's second-largest vineyards.
Split, Croatia
Split, Croatia's second-largest city (about 161,000 people, 2021 census), grew from Diocletian's Palace, built from 298 AD and UNESCO-listed in 1979; a major Adriatic port and tourist hub in Dalmatia.
Spokane Valley
Spokane Valley, Washington: a city of about 108,000 in Spokane County, incorporated March 31, 2003 as the largest incorporation in state history; a suburban city on I-90 east of Spokane.
Spokane, Washington
Spokane, Washington: largest city of the Inland Northwest on the Spokane River falls; founded 1873 as Spokan Falls by James N. Glover, incorporated 1881; 228,989 residents (2020); hub for trade, health care, and education.
Spring, Texas
Spring, Texas is an unincorporated census-designated place in north Harris County, about 20 miles north of Houston on I-45. Founded as a farming settlement and 1871 railroad town, it had 62,559 residents in 2020 and centers on the Old Town Spring shopping district.
Springfield, IL Metro Area
Springfield, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Springfield MSA): OMB-defined metro area of Sangamon and Menard counties in central Illinois, population about 206,000 (2025), anchored by Illinois state government and healthcare.
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield, Illinois: state capital and Sangamon County seat, population 114,394 (2020). Abraham Lincoln's home 1837–1861; Lincoln Home National Historic Site, presidential museum, Land of Lincoln tourism.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield, Massachusetts: largest city in Western Massachusetts on the Connecticut River, founded 1636 by William Pynchon; home of the first federal armory, birthplace of basketball, population about 155,000.
Springfield, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri: Greene County city, birthplace of Route 66 (name proposed by telegram April 30, 1926), population about 169,847 (2025), founded via John Polk Campbell's 1829 claim, site of the Hickok-Tutt shootout.
Springfield, Ohio
Springfield, Ohio, county seat of Clark County between Dayton and Columbus, founded 1801, once the 'Champion City' of agricultural machinery, now a city of about 58,000 known for its Haitian community and the 2024-2026 TPS controversy.
Squamish, British Columbia
Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) is a district municipality at the head of Howe Sound, British Columbia, on the Sea-to-Sky corridor. Formerly Newport until 1914; fastest-growing Canadian census agglomeration 2016–2021; economy of tourism, outdoor recreation, and forestry.
Srebrenica
Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia's Republika Srpska on the Drina river, was a medieval silver-mining center and is now known for the July 1995 genocide of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and the Potočari memorial.