Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Sopka-2

Sopka-2 (Могильник Сопка-2) is a large multi-period Bronze Age to medieval cemetery in the Baraba forest-steppe, Novosibirsk Region, Russia, excavated by V.I. Molodin; key for Krotovo, Odino, and Seima-Turbino studies.

Sopron Botanical Garden

Sopron Botanical Garden (Soproni Botanikus Kert, Egyetemi Élő Növénygyűjtemény) is the University of Sopron's 17.2-hectare protected forest botanical garden, founded 1923 after the Selmecbánya academy moved, with a famous evergreen collection.

Sorbo Necropolis - Regolini-Galassi tomb

Regolini-Galassi tomb, Sorbo necropolis, Cerveteri: intact Etruscan princely tomb found 22 April 1836 by Regolini and Galassi; gold pectoral, Parade Fibula, carts, and 'mi larthia' amphora now in the Vatican Museums.

Sororium Tigillum

Sororium Tigillum, the sister's beam (Tigillum Sororium), an ancient Roman wooden crossbar on two posts on the Oppius slope where Horatius passed in expiation for killing his sister, with altars of Juno Sororia and Janus Curiatius and rites on 1 October.

Soros

Soros (Greek σῶρος, mound; τάφος Ἀθηναίων) is the burial tumulus at Marathon, Attica, covering the cremated remains of the 192 Athenian dead of the 490 BC battle; 9 m high, 50 m across, excavated by Staes in 1890 to 1891.

Sorviodurum

Sorviodurum was a Roman auxiliary fort, civilian settlement, and river port on the Danube in Raetia, at modern Straubing, Germany. Its fort remains have been part of a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2021.

Sost (site)

Sost (Pic de Montlas) is an ancient marble quarry site in the commune of Sost, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, recorded in Pleiades as place 246659, dated 30 BC to AD 640, with marble still quarried nearby by OMYA SAS.

Sostomagus

Sostomagus (also Sextomagus), a Roman road station on the voie d'Aquitaine in Gallia Narbonensis, identified with Castelnaudary, Aude, France; 38 Roman miles east of Toulouse, over a Gaulish Volcae Tectosages oppidum.

Sostra

Sostra: Roman road station and castellum on the Oescus–Philippopolis road (Via Traiana) near Lomets, Bulgaria, in the Osam valley; fort of AD 147 under Antoninus Pius, destroyed by Huns in the 5th century.

Souterrain

Souterrain (earth house, fogou): an underground stone-lined Iron Age passage or cellar found in Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, and Scotland; over 800 known in Scotland, used for storage, refuge, or ritual.

South African National Biodiversity Institute national botanical gardens

The national botanical gardens of the South African National Biodiversity Institute are ten protected gardens across seven provinces, spanning over 7,400 hectares and including Kirstenbosch, founded in 1913.

South American Yard

South American Yard: South American animal exhibit at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, also called the Else Arnold South American Yard, dedicated 30 November 1997; houses South American tapir, capybara, collared peccary, and Patagonian mara.

South China Karst

South China Karst (中国南方喀斯特) is a UNESCO World Heritage serial site of seven karst clusters in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Chongqing, inscribed 2007 and 2014, protecting fenglin tower karst, fengcong cone karst, and Shilin stone forests over 97,125 hectares.

South China National Botanical Garden

South China National Botanical Garden (华南国家植物园), in Guangzhou, China; founded 1929, made China's second national botanical garden in 2022; conserves about 19,766 plant taxa and leads global Magnoliaceae ex situ collections.

South Necropolis (Pergamon)

South Necropolis (Südnekropole), ancient burial ground on the southern slopes of Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey; mainly Roman Imperial and Byzantine in use, excavated in part by DAI Istanbul, with Archaic to Late Roman rescue finds.

South Palace at Deir el-Ballas

South Palace at Deir el-Ballas: mudbrick watchtower, not a residence, marking the southern end of the Theban forward capital during the Hyksos war; excavated by Reisner 1900-1901, restored after 2011 looting.

South Park Street Cemetery

South Park Street Cemetery is a colonial-era Christian burial ground in Kolkata, India, opened in 1767, with about 1,600 graves and monuments including Sir William Jones's pyramid tomb.

South Slope Spring

South Slope Spring: natural spring on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens, sacred to the nymphs and Pan, later the South Slope Spring House at the western end of the Asklepieion, with a late 6th-century BC polygonal reservoir.

South Stoa I

South Stoa I: Classical stoa on the south side of the Athenian Agora, built ca. 430-420 BC with fifteen dining rooms, later used commercially, demolished mid-2nd century BC for South Stoa II.

South Street Seaport

South Street Seaport: historic district on Manhattan's East River waterfront, once New York's principal port, home to the 1967 South Street Seaport Museum and redeveloped under lease by the Howard Hughes Corporation.

Southeast temple of the Athenian Agora

Southeast Temple of the Athenian Agora: a 2nd-century AD Ionic octastyle prostyle Roman temple built over the classical Mint, reusing members from the Temple of Athena at Sounion, damaged in the Herulian sack of 267 AD and restored in 2025-2026.

Southeastern Cluster

Southeastern Cluster (Southeastern Group) of the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia: five churches south of the River Jordan, including Biete Amanuel, Biete Gabriel Raphael, Biete Mercoreus, Biete Abba Libanos, and Biete Lehem, some possibly former palaces or prisons.

Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve

Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve (Southern Appalachian Biosphere Region, SABR), a UNESCO MAB reserve nominated in 1988 across six to seven southeastern U.S. states, 15,863,740 ha, anchored by Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Coweeta, coordinated by the SAMAB cooperative.