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St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda

St. John's is the capital and only city of Antigua and Barbuda, about 22,000 people on a deep harbour. Known for its 1845 cathedral, cruise port under Global Ports Holding, and waterfront Upland Development.

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the most easterly city in North America, with a 2021 population of about 110,000.

St. Joseph, Missouri

St. Joseph, Missouri: northwest Missouri city, county seat of Buchanan County, founded by Joseph Robidoux (incorporated 1845). Eastern terminus of the 1860 Pony Express; eighth largest Missouri city, about 71,000 residents.

St. Joseph, MO-KS Metro Area

St. Joseph, MO-KS Metro Area (CBSA 41140): four-county Missouri-Kansas metropolitan statistical area centered on St. Joseph, Missouri; about 119,000 residents, declining population, short commutes, and housing priced near half the US median.

St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri: independent city since 1876, founded 1764 by Laclede and Chouteau as a fur trading post. Peak population 856,000 in 1950, long decline, north-south racial divide, fragmented regional government.

St. Louis County, Missouri

St. Louis County, Missouri is Missouri's most populous county, organized in 1812 and surrounding, but not including, the independent City of St. Louis after their 1876 separation.

St. Marys, PA Micro Area

St. Marys, PA Micro Area (code 41260) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Elk County, Pennsylvania, principal city St. Marys; about 30,506 residents in 2024, median age 48.4, manufacturing-specialized rural economy.

St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida, the Sunshine City, is Pinellas County's largest city on the Pinellas peninsula between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1888 by Peter Demens, population about 264,000, home of the Tampa Bay Rays at repaired Tropicana Field.

Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, England, founded as an Anglo-Saxon burh in 913 AD by Aethelflaed and chartered by King John in 1206; a market and former shoemaking town of about 136,900 people (2021 borough population) now undergoing major town-centre regeneration.

Staines-upon-Thames

Staines-upon-Thames, formerly Staines, is a market town in Spelthorne, Surrey, on the Thames. Roman Ad Pontes/Pontibus at the London–Silchester road crossing; Domesday Stanes; renamed Staines-upon-Thames in 2012.

Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford, Connecticut: a city in Fairfield County on Long Island Sound, settled 1641 and named 1642 after Stamford, Lincolnshire. Connecticut's third largest city, population 135,470 (2020), a Metro-North commuter hub about 35 miles from Manhattan.

Stamford, Lincolnshire

Stamford, Lincolnshire: a market town on the River Welland in South Kesteven, designated England's first conservation area on 28 September 1967, with over 600 listed buildings, five medieval churches, and Georgian architecture from its Great North Road coaching heyday.

Stanford, California

Stanford, California is a census-designated place (CDP) in unincorporated Santa Clara County covering Stanford University's campus; 21,150 residents at the 2020 census, median age 22, governed under the county's 1985 Land Use Policy.

Stara Zagora (Стара Загора)

Stara Zagora (Стара Загора), also Augusta Trayana, Beroe, Vereya, Boruy, is a city in south-central Bulgaria, provincial capital, settled since the 7th millennium BC, razed in 1877 and rebuilt on a grid plan.

Starkville, Mississippi

Starkville, Mississippi: county seat of Oktibbeha County and home of Mississippi State University. Founded 1834-1835 as renamed Boardtown, population about 25,754 (2025 estimate), college-town economy.

Starnberg

Starnberg is a Bavarian town at the northern end of Lake Starnberg, about 25 km southwest of Munich, first recorded in 1226, with about 23,940 residents (2023), a Wittelsbach summer palace history, and connections to Empress Sisi and King Ludwig II.

Stary Oskol

Stary Oskol (Старый Оскол), city in Belgorod Oblast, Russia; founded 1593 as the Oskol fortress. Center of Kursk Magnetic Anomaly iron ore mining and metallurgy; population 215,937 (2025).

State College, PA Metro Area

The State College, PA metropolitan area is a US metropolitan statistical area comprising Centre County in central Pennsylvania, anchored by State College and Pennsylvania State University's University Park campus.

State College, Pennsylvania

State College is a home rule borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State's University Park campus. Incorporated 1896; 2020 population 40,501; Council/Manager/Mayor government under a 1973 Home Rule Charter.

Staten Island

Staten Island, coextensive with Richmond County, is New York City's southernmost and least populous borough (476,143 residents). Known for the free Staten Island Ferry, the former Fresh Kills landfill, now Freshkills Park, and its suburban, politically distinct character.

States of Germany

States of Germany (Länder, singular Land): the 16 constituent states of the Federal Republic, including three city-states (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen). Five eastern Länder were reestablished by the Ländereinführungsgesetz of 22 July 1990 and joined on 3 October 1990.

Statesboro, Georgia

Statesboro, Georgia: county seat of Bulloch County, founded 1803 as Statesborough, major Sea Island cotton and bright tobacco market, home of Georgia Southern University; population 33,438 (2020).

Staunton, Virginia

Staunton, Virginia: independent Shenandoah Valley city, seat of Augusta County, population about 26,800. Settled 1732, named for Rebecca Staunton; birthplace of Woodrow Wilson and home of the nation's first city manager (1908) and the Blackfriars Playhouse.

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway, with about 151,000 inhabitants, traditionally founded in 1125 around its cathedral, and Norway's oil capital since 1972.

Stavropol

Stavropol (Ставрополь), administrative center of Stavropol Krai, Russia; founded 1777 as a fortress of the Azov-Mozdok line, city status 1785, briefly Voroshilovsk 1935-1943; population about 458,000 in 2022. Distinct from Stavropol-on-the-Volga (Togliatti).

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Steamboat Springs is a home rule city in Routt County, Colorado, founded in the late 1880s by James Crawford, known for mineral springs, Steamboat Ski Resort, and a severe workforce housing shortage.

Stein am Rhein

Stein am Rhein: small medieval town in canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland, at the Rhine outflow of Lake Constance's Untersee. Known for painted facades, St. Georgen abbey museum, Hohenklingen Castle; 3,993 residents (2025), Zurich rule 1484-1798.

Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch, Western Cape town founded 1679 by Simon van der Stel on the Eerste River, South Africa's second oldest town, home of Stellenbosch University, its wine route, and a R13 billion tourism economy.

Stenhousemuir

Stenhousemuir: town in Falkirk council area, Scotland, near Larbert; grew around the Falkirk tryst cattle market (held there since 1785); named for Arthur's O'on, a Roman monument destroyed in 1743; population about 9,600.

Stepanakert

Stepanakert, called Khankendi (Xankəndi) by Azerbaijan, is the main city of Nagorno-Karabakh: NKAO administrative center from 1923, renamed for Bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan, de facto capital of the unrecognized republic until Azerbaijan's September 2023 takeover.