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Sundown town
Sundown town, also called sunset town: a US community that deliberately kept itself all white by expelling or excluding Black people and other minorities, mainly 1890–1970, concentrated in the Midwest and West rather than the South.
Sungai Buloh
Sungai Buloh is a town and mukim in Petaling district, Selangor, Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur. Known for the 1930 leprosy settlement (Valley of Hope), Hospital Sungai Buloh, KTM/MRT interchange, and industrial property market.
Sungai Petani
Sungai Petani (SP) is an industrial city in Kuala Muda District, Kedah, Malaysia, the state's second largest city. Municipal population 545,053 (2020); grew from rubber plantations to industry via KSDC and Penang spillover.
Sunny Beach (Слънчев бряг)
Sunny Beach (Слънчев бряг, Slanchev Bryag) is Bulgaria's largest Black Sea resort near Nessebar, founded by 1958 Decree No. 120, privatized after 1989, with over 1.5 million annual tourists.
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California: a Santa Clara County city in Silicon Valley, incorporated 1912, charter city 1950, population 155,805 (2020), a Bay Area tech and aerospace hub with employers such as Google, Juniper Networks, and Lockheed Martin.
Sunrise, Florida
Sunrise, Florida: Broward County city incorporated 1961 as Sunrise Golf Village, renamed 1971; home of Sawgrass Mills mall, Amerant Bank Arena, and the Florida Panthers; about 98,000 residents.
Suqian
Suqian (宿迁) is a prefecture-level city in northern Jiangsu, China, established July 1996, the province's youngest. Two districts, three counties, 8,555 km²; renamed from Suyu in 762; hometown of Xiang Yu and Yanghe liquor.
Surabaya
Surabaya (Kota Pahlawan), capital of East Java, Indonesia; major port city and core of Gerbangkertosusila metro; 2025 GRDP IDR 830.54 trillion, 5.87% growth, HDI 85.65.
Surakarta (city)
Surakarta (Solo, Surakarta Hadiningrat), city in Central Java, Indonesia; seat of the Kasunanan royal court founded 1746 after the move from Kartasura; divided from Yogyakarta by the 1755 Giyanti Treaty; population about 529,000.
Surat (સુરત)
Surat (સુરત), Gujarat's second-largest city on the Tapi River, was the Mughal Empire's chief port and site of the first English factory (1613); today it handles about 90% of global diamond output and produces 30 million meters of polyester daily.
Surendranagar
Surendranagar (સુરેન્દ્રનગર), city and district headquarters in Saurashtra, Gujarat, India; renamed for Maharaj Surendrasinhji of Wadhwan. Produces about 25 percent of India's salt, a cotton and ginning hub, and a Municipal Corporation since 1 January 2025.
Surgut, Khanty-Mansia
Surgut (Сургут), a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra, Russia, on the Ob River; founded 1594, rebuilt as an oil center after the 1957 Salmanov expedition; home to Surgutneftegas and the world's largest gas-fired power station.
Surprise
Surprise, Arizona: a city in the northwest Phoenix metro founded in 1938 by Flora Mae Statler. Population about 175,000 (2025), groundwater-based 100-year assured water supply, Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals spring training, ratified 2040 General Plan.
Surrey, British Columbia
Surrey, British Columbia: a city in Metro Vancouver on the south side of the Fraser River, bordering the US. Second most populous BC municipality (568,322 in 2021), largest by land area, incorporated 1879, named after Surrey, England.
Susanville, California
Susanville, California: the only incorporated city and county seat of Lassen County, founded by Isaac Roop in 1853, incorporated 1900, a former logging town turned prison town whose economy contracted after the 2023 closure of the California Correctional Center.
Sussex, New Brunswick
Sussex, New Brunswick: a town in Kings County in the Kennebecasis River valley, 70 km northeast of Saint John. Known as the Dairy Capital of Atlantic Canada, home of the 8th Hussars, murals, and the Kings County Agricultural Fair; amalgamated with Sussex Corner in 2023.
Sustainable city
A sustainable city, also known as an ecocity or green city, is an urban area designed for social, economic, and environmental sustainability through an integrated approach to urban life.
Sutton Coldfield
Royal Sutton Coldfield: town in north east Birmingham, England, chartered by Henry VIII in 1528 via Bishop Vesey, absorbed into Birmingham in 1974, home to 900-hectare Sutton Park and a £20 million Pride in Place regeneration programme.
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield, a market and industrial town in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire; largest of the district's three town centres. Known for hosiery and coal mining, population 14,866 in 1901.
Sutton, England
Sutton, south-west London: administrative centre of the London Borough of Sutton in former Surrey. Population about 209,600 (2021), a London Plan Opportunity Area with 5,000 homes and 3,500 jobs planned by 2041.
Suva
Suva, capital and largest city of Fiji on southeastern Viti Levu, replaced Levuka as colonial capital in 1882. Greater Suva holds about 186,000 people, Kings Wharf, Nausori Airport, and major climate-risk exposure.
Suwon (수원)
Suwon (수원) is the capital of Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, a special case city since 2022 and its most populous basic municipality with 1.23 million people, home to UNESCO-listed Hwaseong Fortress and Samsung Electronics' headquarters.
Suzhou (苏州)
Suzhou (苏州), also known as Soochow, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, eastern China, adjoining Shanghai and known for its classical gardens and canals.
Suzhou, Anhui
Suzhou, also written 宿州, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Anhui Province, China, at the junction of Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Henan, distinguished from Jiangsu's larger Suzhou by its province name.
Suzuka
Suzuka (鈴鹿市, Suzuka-shi) is a city of about 194,000 in northern Mie Prefecture, Japan, founded in 1942 as a wartime military city around the Suzuka Naval Arsenal and now known for the Suzuka Circuit and Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.
Swadlincote
Swadlincote: market town and largest settlement of South Derbyshire, England, near the Leicestershire and Staffordshire borders. Former coal and clay town famed for sanitary ware (Sharpe's Pottery, 1821); now the district's administrative center at the heart of The National Forest.
Swakopmund
Swakopmund is a coastal resort town in western Namibia, founded in 1892 as a German colonial seaport, now the capital of the Erongo Region with about 76,000 residents.
Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe), Wales' second city on Swansea Bay at the mouth of the River Tawe. Historic copper-smelting world center called Copperopolis; birthplace of Dylan Thomas; gateway to Gower, the UK's first AONB.
Swindon
Swindon is a large town in north-east Wiltshire, England, that grew around the Great Western Railway works opened in 1843 and closed in 1986; population about 233,400 at Census 2021.
Sydney
Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, is Australia's most populous city with over 5 million residents; it began in 1788 as a British penal colony on Gadigal land.