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NAME ENTRY IN LATITUDE LONGITUD
THE WORLD FACTBOOK (DEG E
MIN) (DEG
MIN)
Saar (region) Germany 49 25 N 7 00 E
Saaremaa (island) Estonia 58 25 N 22 30 E
Saba (island) Netherlands 17 38 N 63 10 W
Antilles
Sabah (state) Malaysia 5 20 N 117 10 E
Sable Island Canada 43 55 N 59 50 W
Safety Islands (Iles du French Guiana 5 20 N 52 37 W
Salut)
Sahara Occidental Western Sahara 24 30 N 13 00 W
(former name for Western
Sahara)
Sahel (region) Burkina Faso, 15 00 N 8 00 W
Chad, The Gambia,
Guinea- Bissau,
Mali, Mauritania,
Niger, Senegal
Saigon (city; former Vietnam 10 45 N 106 40 E
name for Ho Chi Minh
City)
Saint Brandon (Cargados Mauritius 16 25 S 59 38 E
Carajos Shoals)
Saint Christopher Saint Kitts and 17 20 N 62 45 W
(island) Nevis
Saint Christopher and Saint Kitts and 17 20 N 62 45 W
Nevis Nevis
Saint Eustatius (island) Netherlands 17 30 N 63 00 W
Antilles
Saint George's (capital) Grenada 12 03 N 61 45 W
Saint George's Channel Atlantic Ocean 52 00 N 6 00 W
Saint Helena Island Saint Helena 15 57 S 5 42 W
Saint Helens, Mount United States 46 15 N 122 12 W
(volcano)
Saint Helier (capital) Jersey 49 12 N 2 07 W
Saint John (city) Canada (New 45 16 N 66 04 W
Brunswick)
Saint John's (capital) Antigua and 17 06 N 61 51 W
Barbuda
Saint Lawrence Island United States 49 30 N 67 00 W
Saint Lawrence Seaway Atlantic Ocean 49 15 N 67 00 W
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 48 00 N 62 00 W
Saint Paul Island Canada 47 12 N 60 09 W
Saint Paul Island United States 57 11 N 170 16 W
Saint Paul Island (Ile French Southern 38 43 S 77 29 E
Saint-Paul) and Antarctic
Lands
Saint Peter Port Guernsey 49 27 N 2 32 W
(capital)
Saint Peter and Saint Brazil 0 23 N 29 23 W
Paul Rocks (Penedos de
Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo)
Saint Petersburg (city; Russia 59 55 N 30 15 E
former capital)
Saint Thomas (island) Virgin Islands 18 21 N 64 55 W
Saint Vincent Passage Atlantic Ocean 13 30 N 61 00 W
Saint-Denis (capital) Reunion 20 52 S 55 28 E
Saint-Pierre (capital) Saint Pierre and 46 46 N 56 11 W
Miquelon
Saipan (island) Northern Mariana 15 12 N 145 45 E
Islands
Sak'art'velo (local name Georgia 42 00 N 43 30 E
for Georgia)
Sakhalin Island (Ostrov Russia 51 00 N 143 00 E
Sakhalin)
Sakishima Islands Japan 24 30 N 124 00 E
Sala y Gomez, Isla Chile 26 28 S 105 00 W
(island)
Salisbury (city; former Zimbabwe 17 50 S 105 00 W
name for Harare)
Salzburg (city) Austria 47 48 N 13 02 E
Samar (island) Philippines 12 00 N 125 00 E
Samaria (region) West Bank 32 15 N 35 10 E
Samoa Islands American Samoa, 14 00 S 171 00 W
Samoa
Samos (island) Greece 37 48 N 26 44 E
San Ambrosio, Isla Chile 26 21 S 79 52 W
(island)
San Andres y Colombia 13 00 N 81 30 W
Providencia,
Archipielago (island
group)
San Bernardino Strait Pacific Ocean 12 32 N 124 10 E
San Felix, Isla (island) Chile 26 17 S 80 05 W
San Jose (capital) Costa Rica 9 56 N 84 05 W
San Juan (capital) Puerto Rico 18 28 N 66 07 W
San Marino (capital) San Marino 43 56 N 12 25 E
San Salvador (capital) El Salvador 13 42 N 89 12 W
Sanaa (capital) Yemen 15 21 N 44 12 E
Sandzak (region) Montenegro, Serbia 43 05 N 19 45 E
Santa Cruz (city) Bolivia 17 48 S 63 10 W
Santa Cruz Islands Solomon Islands 11 00 S 166 15 E
Santa Sede (local name Holy See 41 54 N 12 27 E
for the Holy See)
Santiago (capital) Chile 33 27 S 70 40 W
Santo Antao (island) Cape Verde 17 05 N 25 10 W
Santo Domingo (capital) Dominican Republic 18 28 N 69 54 W
Sao Paulo (city) Brazil 23 35 S 46 43 W
Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo, Brazil 0 23 N 29 23 W
Penedos de (rocks)
Sao Tiago (island) Cape Verde 15 05 N 23 40 W
Sao Tome (island) Sao Tome and 0 12 N 6 39 E
Principe
Sapporo (city) Japan 43 04 N 141 20 E
Sapudi Strait Pacific Ocean 7 05 S 114 10 E
Sarajevo (capital) Bosnia and 43 52 N 18 25 E
Herzegovina
Sarawak (state) Malaysia 2 30 N 113 30 E
Sardinia (island) Italy 40 00 N 9 00 E
Sargasso Sea (region) Atlantic Ocean 30 00 N 55 00 W
Sark (island) Guernsey 49 26 N 2 21 W
Savage Island (former Niue 19 02 S 169 52 W
name for Niue)
Savu Sea Pacific Ocean 9 30 S 122 00 E
Saxony (region) Germany 51 00 N 13 00 E
Schleswig-Holstein Germany 54 31 N 9 33 E
(region)
Schweiz (local German Switzerland 47 00 N 8 00 E
name for Switzerland)
Scopus, Mount Israel, West Bank 31 48 N 35 14 E
Scotia Sea Atlantic Ocean, 56 00 S 40 00 W
Southern Ocean
Scotland (region) United Kingdom 57 00 N 4 00 W
Scott Island Antarctica 67 24 S 179 55 W
Senegambia (region; The Gambia, 13 50 N 15 25 W
former name of Senegal
confederation of Senegal
and The Gambia)
Senyavin Islands Federated States 6 55 N 158 00 E
of Micronesia
Seoul (capital) South Korea 37 34 N 127 00 E
Serendib (former name Sri Lanka 7 00 N 81 00 E
for Sri Lanka)
Serrana Bank (shoal) Colombia 14 25 N 80 16 W
Serranilla Bank (shoal) Colombia 15 51 N 79 46 W
Settlement, The Christmas Island 10 25 S 105 43 E
(capital)
Severnaya Zemlya (island Russia 79 30 N 98 00 E
group; also Northland)
Shaba (region) Democratic 8 00 S 27 00 E
Republic of the
Congo
Shag Island Heard Island and 53 00 S 72 30 E
McDonald Islands
Shag Rocks South Georgia and 53 33 S 42 02 W
the South Sandwich
Islands
Shanghai (city) China 31 14 N 121 30 E
Shenyang (city; also China 41 46 N 123 24 E
Mukden)
Shetland Islands United Kingdom 60 30 N 1 30 W
Shikoku (island) Japan 33 45 N 133 30 E
Shikotan (island) Russia (de facto) 43 47 N 146 45 E
Shqiperia (local name Albania 41 00 N 20 00 E
for Albania)
Siam (former name for Thailand 15 00 N 100 00 E
Thailand)
Siberia (region) Russia 60 00 N 100 00 E
Sibutu Passage Pacific Ocean 4 50 N 119 35 E
Sicily (island) Italy 37 30 N 14 00 E
Sicily, Strait of Atlantic Ocean 37 20 N 11 20 E
Sidra, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean 31 30 N 18 00 E
Sikkim (state) India 27 50 N 88 30 E
Silesia (region) Czech Republic, 51 00 N 17 00 E
Germany, Poland
Sinai Peninsula Egypt 29 30 N 34 00 E
Singapore (capital) Singapore 1 17 N 103 51 E
Singapore Strait Pacific Ocean 1 15 N 104 00 E
Sinkiang (autonomous China 42 00 N 86 00 E
region; also Xinjiang)
Sint Eustatius (island) Netherlands 17 29 N 62 58 W
Antilles
Sint Maarten (island; Netherlands 18 04 N 63 04 W
also Saint-Martin) Antilles
Sjaelland (island) Denmark 55 30 N 12 00 E
Skagerrak (strait) Atlantic Ocean 57 45 N 9 00 E
Skopje (capital) Macedonia 41 59 N 21 26 E
Slavonia (region) Croatia 45 27 N 18 00 E
Slovenija (local name Slovenia 46 00 N 15 00 E
for Slovenia)
Slovensko (local name Slovakia 48 40 N 19 30 E
for Slovakia)
Smyrna (region; former Turkey 38 25 N 27 10 E
name for Izmir)
Society Islands (Iles de French Polynesia 17 00 S 150 00 W
la Societe)
Socotra (island) Yemen 12 30 N 54 00 E
Sofia (capital) Bulgaria 42 41 N 23 19 E
Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea 6 00 S 155 00 E
northern
Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands 8 00 S 159 00 E
southern
Solomon Sea Pacific Ocean 8 00 S 153 00 E
Somaliland (region) Somalia 9 30 N 46 00 E
Somers Islands (former Bermuda 32 20 N 64 45 W
name for Bermuda)
Songkhla (city) Thailand 7 12 N 100 36 E
Sound, The (strait; also Atlantic Ocean 55 50 N 12 40 E
Oresund)
South Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean 30 00 S 15 00 W
South China Sea Pacific Ocean 10 00 N 113 00 E
South Georgia (island) South Georgia and 54 15 S 36 45 W
the South Sandwich
Islands
South Island New Zealand 43 00 S 171 00 E
South Korea South Korea 37 00 N 127 30 E
South Orkney Islands Antarctica 61 00 S 45 00 W
South Ossetia (region) Georgia 42 20 N 44 00 E
South Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean 30 00 S 130 00 W
South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and 57 45 S 26 30 W
the South Sandwich
Islands
South Shetland Islands Antarctica 62 00 S 59 00 W
South Tyrol (region) Italy 46 30 N 10 30 E
South Vietnam (former Vietnam 12 00 N 108 00 E
name for the southern
portion of Vietnam)
South Yemen (People's Yemen 14 00 N 48 00 E
Democratic Republic of
Yemen; now part of
Yemen)
South-West Africa Namibia 22 00 S 17 00 E
(former name for
Namibia)
Southern Grenadines Grenada 12 20 N 61 30 W
(island group)
Southern Rhodesia Zimbabwe 20 00 S 30 00 E
(former name for
Zimbabwe)
Soviet Union (former Armenia,
name of a large Eurasian Azerbaijan,
empire, roughly coequal Belarus, Estonia,
with the former Russian Georgia,
Empire) Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Latvia, Lithuania,
Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan,
Ukraine,
Uzbekistan
Spanish Guinea (former Equatorial Guinea 2 00 N 10 00 E
name for Equatorial
Guinea)
Spanish Morocco (former Morocco 32 00 N 7 00 W
name for northern
Morocco)
Spanish North Africa Spain (Ceuta, 35 15 N 4 00 W
(exclaves) Islas Chafarinas,
Melilla, Penon de
Alhucemas, Penon
de Velez de la
Gomera)
Spanish Sahara (former Western Sahara 24 30 N 13 00 W
name)
Spanish West Africa Morocco, Western 25 00 N 13 00 W
(former name for Ifni Sahara
and Spanish Sahara)
Spice Islands (Moluccas) Indonesia 2 00 S 28 00 E
Spitsbergen (island) Svalbard 78 00 N 20 00 E
Srbija (local name for Serbia 44 00 N 21 00 E
Serbia)
St. John's (city) Canada 47 34 N 52 43 W
(Newfoundland)
Stanley (capital) Falkland Islands 51 42 S 57 41 W
(Islas Malvinas)
Stockholm (capital) Sweden 59 20 N 18 03 E
Strasbourg (city) France 48 35 N 7 44 E
Stuttgart (city) Germany 48 46 N 9 11 E
Sucre (constitutional Bolivia 19 02 S 65 17 W
capital)
Suez Canal Egypt 29 55 N 32 33 E
Suez, Gulf of Indian Ocean 28 10 N 33 27 E
Suisse (local French Switzerland 47 00 N 8 00 E
name for Switzerland)
Sulawesi (island; Indonesia 2 00 S 121 00 E
Celebes)
Sulawesi Sea Pacific Ocean 3 00 N 122 00 E
Sulu Archipelago (island Philippines 6 00 N 121 00 E
group)
Sulu Sea Pacific Ocean 8 00 N 120 00 E
Sumatra (island) Indonesia 0 00 N 102 00 E
Sumba (island) Indonesia 10 00 S 120 00 E
Sumba Strait Pacific Ocean 9 10 S 120 00 E
Sumbawa (island) Indonesia 8 30 S 118 00 E
Sunda Islands (Soenda Indonesia, 2 00 S 110 00 E
Isles) Malaysia
Sunda Strait Indian Ocean 6 00 S 105 45 E
Suomi (local name for Finland 64 00 N 26 00 E
Finland)
Surabaya (city) Indonesia 7 13 S 112 45 E
Surigao Strait Pacific Ocean 10 15 N 125 23 E
Surinam (former name for Suriname 4 00 N 56 00 W
Suriname)
Suriyah (local name for Syria 35 00 N 38 00 E
Syria)
Surtsey (volcanic Iceland 63 17 N 20 40 W
island)
Suva (capital) Fiji 18 08 S 178 25 E
Sverdlovsk (city; also Russia 56 50 N 60 39 E
Yekaterinburg)
Sverige (local name for Sweden 62 00 N 15 00 E
Sweden)
Svizzera (local Italian Switzerland 47 00 N 8 00 E
name for Switzerland)
Swains Island American Samoa 11 03 S 171 15 W
Swan Islands Honduras 17 25 S 83 56 W
Sydney (city) Australia 33 53 S 151 13 E