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Sri Ganganagar (श्री गंगानगर)
Sri Ganganagar (श्री गंगानगर), also called Ganganagar, is the northernmost city and district of Rajasthan, India, on the Punjab and Pakistan borders. Founded by Maharaja Ganga Singh around the 1927 Gang Canal, it is Rajasthan's top cotton and oilseed producer and famous for kinnow citrus.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ)
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ), or Kotte, is Sri Lanka's administrative capital, declared 29 January 1985, seat of the Parliament relocated from Colombo in April 1982, and site of the medieval Kingdom of Kotte.
Srikakulam (శ్రీకాకుళం)
Srikakulam (శ్రీకాకుళం) is a city and municipal corporation in northeastern Andhra Pradesh, headquarters of coastal Srikakulam district; 133,911 residents (2011), 117 km from Visakhapatnam airport, noted for Arasavalli Sun Temple and Mulapeta port plans.
Srikalahasti (శ్రీకాళహస్తి)
Srikalahasti (శ్రీకాళహస్తి), also Sri Kalahasti, is a temple town in Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, home to the Srikalahasteeswara Temple, a Pancha Bhuta Sthalam Shiva shrine with a Vayu Lingam and a 120-foot gopuram built by Krishnadevaraya in 1516.
Srinagar (سری نگر)
Srinagar (سری نگر), summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India, lies on both banks of the Jhelum River at about 1,580 m elevation. Founded around 250 BC, it had 1.24 million people in its 2011 urban agglomeration and faces major flood and seismic hazards.
Sringeri (ಶೃಂಗೇರಿ)
Sringeri (ಶೃಂಗೇರಿ), also called Sringeri Sharada Peetham, is a Karnataka pilgrimage town on the Tunga River where Adi Shankaracharya founded the first of his four Advaita mathas over twelve centuries ago.
Srirangapatna (ಶ್ರೀರಂಗಪಟ್ಟಣ)
Srirangapatna (ಶ್ರೀರಂಗಪಟ್ಟಣ, Seringapatam) is a fortified river island town in Mandya district, Karnataka, capital of Mysore until Tipu Sultan's death there on 4 May 1799; its monuments are on India's UNESCO tentative list.
Srisailam
Srisailam, also called Sri Parvatam, is a temple town in Andhra Pradesh's Nallamala Hills, home to the Mallikarjuna Jyotirlinga temple and the 770 MW Srisailam Dam on the Krishna River.
St Albans
St Albans, Hertfordshire cathedral city on the site of Roman Verulamium, burial place of Saint Alban; city status 1877, about 148,200 district population, 21-minute London commute, and among England's priciest commuter cities.
St Andrews
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland: medieval ecclesiastical capital, site of Scotland's largest cathedral (consecrated 1318), home of Scotland's first university (1413) and golf's R&A; population about 18,300.
St Davids
St Davids (Tyddewi) is Britain's smallest city, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, holding city status through its 12th-century cathedral on the site of St David's 6th-century monastery; status reinstated 1994.
St George, Queensland
St George is a rural town and locality in the Balonne Shire, southwest Queensland, about 550 km west of Brisbane, on the Balonne River. Administrative centre of the shire, cotton-irrigation hub, 3,130 residents (2021), recurrent major floods.
St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens, Merseyside: a Liverpool City Region metropolitan borough of about 183,200 people, historically built on glassmaking (from 1773) and coal, now undergoing major town centre regeneration while ranking among England's more deprived areas.
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia) is a Cornish seaside town and former pilchard and tin port, famed for its beaches, the Tate St Ives gallery, the Barbara Hepworth Museum, the 1887 St Erth branch line, and acute second-home housing pressure.
St-Félix-de-Pallières
St-Félix-de-Pallières, a small commune in the Gard, Occitanie, France, on the Cévennes border; site of the former Croix-de-Pallières lead-zinc mines (closed 1971) and of lasting heavy-metal soil contamination and Umicore remediation litigation.
St-Jean-du-Gard
St-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, Occitanie: Cévennes commune on the Gardon at the confluence of the Borgne and Française valleys; Benedictine priory town, first mentioned 1119 as Saint-Jean-de-Gardonnenque; Barrington Atlas ancient mine site.
St-Just-en-Chaussée
St-Just-en-Chaussée is a commune in the Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France, on the Plateau picard. Known for its Gallic and Gallo-Roman sanctuary at Le Rossignol and its 1846 station on the Paris–Lille railway; distinct from other Saint-Just communes.
St-Léger-du-Bois
St-Léger-du-Bois, a commune in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (INSEE 71438), a Drée-valley coal and oil-shale mining village near Autun, home to the puits des Fourneaux masonry headframe, closed 1950.
St-Restitut
Saint-Restitut, Drôme commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; hilltop village of white stone near Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, known for its Miocene limestone quarries, 11th-century funerary tower, and 1840-classified Romanesque church.
St-Romain-de-Lerps
Saint-Romain-de-Lerps, a commune in the Ardèche (07130), France, on the plateau de Vernoux above the Rhône; Le Pic belvédère (649 m), château de Durtail ruins, Gallo-Roman Trou-de-l'Argentière mine.
St-Yrieix-la-Perche
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne commune in Limousin, France, heart of a historic gold district (Gallic aurières, 1982-2001 modern mines, 28.4 t gold) and of kaolin quarries feeding Limoges porcelain.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spain in 1565, is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the United States, known for its Spanish colonial architecture and the Castillo de San Marcos.
St. Catharines
St. Catharines, nicknamed the Garden City, is the largest city in Ontario's Niagara Region on Lake Ontario, an industrial city built around the Welland Canal and Harriet Tubman's 1850s home base.
St. Charles, Missouri
St. Charles, Missouri: historic Missouri River city founded 1769 by Louis Blanchette as Les Petites Cotes; Missouri's first state capital 1821-1826, 1804 Lewis and Clark departure point, 2020 population 70,493.
St. Cloud, Minnesota
St. Cloud, Minnesota: central Minnesota city on the Mississippi River, united from three towns in 1856. Population 68,881 (2020), rising to an estimated 72,647 in 2025; third-largest Minnesota metro area, home of St. Cloud State University and a granite-industry heritage.
St. Cloud, MN Metro Area
The St. Cloud, MN Metro Area is a metropolitan statistical area in central Minnesota comprising Benton and Stearns counties, with St. Cloud as its principal city.
St. Gallen
St. Gallen (St.Gallen), capital of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, eighth-largest Swiss city with 83,843 residents in 2025, built around the UNESCO-listed Abbey of St. Gall and home to the University of St. Gallen (HSG).
St. George, Utah
St. George, Utah: county seat of Washington County, founded fall 1861 as the main settlement of the LDS Cotton Mission and named for apostle George A. Smith; nicknamed Utah's Dixie; now a fast-growing metro of about 213,670.
St. George's, Bermuda
St. George's, Bermuda (originally New London), founded 1612, oldest English town in the New World, Bermuda's capital until 1815, and core of the 2000 UNESCO World Heritage site with 21 related fortifications.
St. George's, Grenada
St. George's is the capital, largest town, and main port of Grenada, founded by the French in 1649 as Fort Royal around the horseshoe Carenage harbour, renamed by Britain in 1763, with Georgian architecture, forts, and about 44,777 parish residents.