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Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador
Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador is a town of about 6,600 people on Bay St. George on the west coast of Newfoundland, serving a surrounding area of roughly 25,000.
Stephenville, Texas
Stephenville, Texas, county seat of Erath County on the North Bosque River, home of Tarleton State University, known as the Rodeo Cowboy Capital of the World, population 20,897 (2020).
Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights, Michigan: fourth-largest Michigan city (134,346 in 2020), in Macomb County near Detroit. Incorporated July 1, 1968 from Sterling Township; council-manager government; notable for Holcombe Beach Paleo-Indian site and 28% foreign-born residents.
Sterlitamak
Sterlitamak (Bashkir: Стәрлетамаҡ), founded in 1766, is the second most populous city of Bashkortostan, Russia, after Ufa, known for its chemical industry and machine building.
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville, Ohio: Jefferson County seat on the Ohio River, founded 1797 and named for Fort Steuben; former steel town of 17,922 (2025 est.), home to Franciscan University.
Stevenage
Stevenage, Hertfordshire town and borough about 30 miles north of London; Britain's first post-war new town, designated under the New Towns Act 1946 with a pioneering fully pedestrian town centre; population about 89,500 in 2021.
Steyning
Steyning is a historic market town in Horsham District, West Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs. Known for its Norman church of St Andrew and St Cuthman, its market dating to Edward the Confessor, and its 1771 rebuilt Market House at 72 High Street.
Steyr
Steyr is a statutory city in Upper Austria at the Enns-Steyr confluence, third-largest in the state with about 37,900 people. Known for the 980 Styraburg, the iron trade, Werndl's arms works, and Steyr-Daimler-Puch.
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater, Oklahoma: Payne County seat and home of Oklahoma State University, settled in the 1889 Land Run; about 50,000 residents, council-manager government, Stillwater Regional Airport.
Stirling
Stirling is a historic city in central Scotland on the River Forth, a royal burgh since about 1124, site of Stirling Castle and the 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge, population 94,040 in 2025.
Stockholm
Stockholm, capital of Sweden, founded by Birger Jarl with the name first recorded in 1252 letters; built on 14 islands, passed one million inhabitants in 2026, Sweden's financial centre and a leading European green city.
Stockport
Stockport, a town in Greater Manchester, England, on a red sandstone promontory over the River Mersey. Saxon origins, 1220 mayoral charter, 1840 brick viaduct, County Borough 1888, Metropolitan Borough 1974, major town centre regeneration since 2019.
Stockstadt
Stockstadt names two German municipalities: Stockstadt am Main in Bavaria, site of a major Roman Main-Limes fort, vicus, harbour, and mithraeum (c. 90-270 AD), and Stockstadt am Rhein in Hesse, a former Rhine harbor town.
Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees is a market town and administrative center in north east England, divided by the River Tees, known for its wide High Street market chartered in 1310.
Stockton, California
Stockton, California: county seat of San Joaquin County on the San Joaquin River delta, founded 1849 by Charles M. Weber, incorporated 1850, home of the first inland seaport in California (1933), population about 324,600.
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent, the Potteries, is a West Midlands unitary city federated from six pottery towns in 1910 (city status 1925), with about 258,400 residents, a declining ceramics industry, and contested regeneration.
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain, Georgia: a small DeKalb County city (population 6,703 in 2020) at the base of Stone Mountain, incorporated as New Gibraltar in 1839, renamed 1847, historically a granite quarrying town adjacent to Stone Mountain Park.
Stone Town
Stone Town (Mji Mkongwe), the historic core of Zanzibar City, Tanzania: a Swahili coastal trading town of coral-rag architecture, carved doors, and sultanate monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 facing development and conservation pressures.
Stonea
Stonea, Cambridgeshire: fen island near March holding Stonea Camp, Britain's lowest hillfort at 2 m OD, an Iron Age multivallate fort of the Iceni with a nearby Roman stone building and tower.
Stornoway
Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh) is the largest town of the Outer Hebrides, on Lewis, Scotland; historic herring port and seat of Lews Castle, the Stornoway Trust, and the Ullapool ferry link.
Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a West Midlands town in Dudley borough, England, famed for 400 years of glassmaking, the Red House Glass Cone, town centre regeneration, and the August 2026 wildfire.
Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold: hilltop Cotswold market town in Gloucestershire, England, about 2,000 people, the highest Cotswold town at 800 feet on the Fosse Way, known for its wool-trade square, the 1646 Battle of Stow, and St Edward's Church yew door.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg, capital of Alsace and the Grand Est region in eastern France, seat of the European Parliament and Council of Europe; founded as Roman Argentoratum in 12 BC, annexed by France in 1681, German 1871–1918, UNESCO-listed Grande-Île and Neustadt.
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon: Warwickshire market town on the River Avon, chartered 1196, birthplace and burial place of William Shakespeare; major heritage tourism center with about 2.5 million annual visitors.
Stratford, Ontario
Stratford, Ontario, a city of 33,232 on the Avon River and Perth County's separated seat, grew from a Grand Trunk Railway repair-shop junction into the home of the Stratford Festival, Canada's classical theatre, with manufacturing and arts-led diversification.
Strathaven
Strathaven, a market town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, means "Valley of the Avon"; chartered in 1450, it lies about 18 miles from Glasgow on the A71.
Stroud
Stroud is a Cotswold market town in Gloucestershire, England, once the center of a woollen cloth industry producing cloth known as Strouds, served by the 1779 Stroudwater Canal, and named the Sunday Times best place to live in the UK in 2021.
Struga (Струга)
Struga (Струга; Strugë) is a town in southwestern North Macedonia on the northern shore of Lake Ohrid, known as a city of poetry for its Struga Poetry Evenings festival.
Stuart, Florida
Stuart, Florida: county seat of Martin County on the St. Lucie River, Treasure Coast; settled 1870, incorporated 1914, chartered 1925; formerly Potsdam; known as the Sailfish Capital of the World; 2020 population 17,425.
Sturgis, South Dakota
Sturgis, South Dakota: Meade County seat city of about 7,000 at the northern Black Hills, named for General Samuel D. Sturgis, host since 1938 of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the world's largest motorcycle rally.