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Australia

  • Westfield Southland, a large retail complex located in the suburb of Cheltenham, approximately 16 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD in Australia

Canada

  • Greater Toronto Area
    Greater Toronto Area
    The Greater Toronto Area is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2006 census population of 5.5 million. The Greater Toronto Area is usually defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York...

     (particularly Peel Region
    Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario
    The Regional Municipality of Peel is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of Toronto: the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. The entire region is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner...

    )
  • Dunbar-Southlands
    Dunbar-Southlands
    Dunbar-Southlands is a neighbourhood in the City of Vancouver that stretches north from the Fraser River across much of the peninsula between the mouth of the Fraser and English Bay...

    , a neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia

New Zealand

  • Southland District
    Southland District
    Southland District is a territorial authority in the South Island of New Zealand. Southland District covers the majority of the land area of Southland Region, although the region also covers Gore District, Invercargill City and adjacent territorial waters...

    , a territorial authority in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Southland Plains
    Southland Plains
    The Southland Plains is a general name given to several areas of low-lying land in the South Island of New Zealand, separated by the rise of the Hokonui Hills in the north. It forms a sizeable area of Southland Region and encompasses its two principal settlements the city of Invercargill and the...

    , a general name given to several areas of low-lying land in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Southland Region
    Southland Region
    Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

    , New Zealand's southernmost region

United States of America

  • Chicago Southland
    Chicago Southland
    The Chicago Southland is the suburban region south and southwest of the City of Chicago, made up of approximately 70 municipalities. This region has been known as the Chicago Southland by the local populace and regional media for about 20 years....

    , the south suburbs of the city of Chicago
  • Greater Los Angeles Area
    Greater Los Angeles Area
    The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is a term used for the Combined Statistical Area sprawled over five counties in the southern part of California, namely Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County...

    , the metropolitan region
    Combined Statistical Area
    The United States Office of Management and Budget defines micropolitan and metropolitan statistical areas. Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas consist of one or more counties...

     surrounding Los Angeles
  • Southern California
    Southern California
    Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...

  • Southland, Texas
    Southland, Texas
    Southland is an unincorporated community in Garza County, Texas, United States. It lies along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado on U.S. Route 84, twenty miles northwest of Post.-History:...


Fictional places

  • Southland (Shannara)
    Southland (Shannara)
    The Southland is a region in the Four Lands, the fictional world where Terry Brooks' Shannara series is set.-Overview:The Southland is inhabited mostly by men. It was largely divided with the largest country being the Borderland of Callahorn until the Federation took over the Southland after the...

    , a region in the fictional world where Terry Brooks' Shannara series is set.
  • The Southlands (Warhammer)
    The Southlands (Warhammer)
    The Southlands are a mythical location in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, closely corresponding to real world Central Africa. The Southlands lie south of the Land of the Dead and are dominated by dense swamplands and rain forest...

    , a mythical location in the Warhammer Fantasy universe
  • Southern California
    Southern California
    Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...

     in Southland Tales
    Southland Tales
    Southland Tales is a 2006 American-Franco-German science fiction dark comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles...

    s alternate universe

Buildings

  • Southland Astronomical Society Observatory
    Southland Astronomical Society Observatory
    Southland Astronomical Society Observatory in Invercargill is New Zealand's southernmost observatory. Operated by Southland Astronomical Society but owned by the Southland Museum and Art Gallery, it is situated on the western side of the museum building....

    , an observatory in Invercargill, New Zealand
  • Southland Center, a former office building, now Sheraton Dallas Hotel
    Sheraton Dallas Hotel
    The Sheraton Dallas Hotel, formerly the Adam's Mark Hotel and originally the Southland Center, is a complex of international style skyscrapers located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas. The hotel is the tallest and largest hotel in Dallas and Texas with 1,840 guest rooms and ...

     in downtown Dallas, Texas.
  • Stadium Southland
    Stadium Southland
    Stadium Southland is an international sports complex in Invercargill, New Zealand. The stadium was completed in May 2000. The main SBS Sports Arena in the stadium has a capacity of 4,500, with temporary seating...

    , an indoor arena in Invercargill, New Zealand

Shopping centers

  • Southland (Portage, Michigan
    Portage, Michigan
    Portage is a city in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 46,292 at the 2010 census. It is the smaller of the two main cities included in the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 326,589 as of 2010.Portage is adjacent to the...

    ), a strip mall in Portage, Michigan, once known as Southland Mall
  • Southland Center (Michigan)
    Southland Center (Michigan)
    Southland Center is an enclosed mall located at 23000 Eureka Road. in Taylor, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It is the newest of the Detroit area's four "land" malls . Southland Center opened on July 20, 1970...

    , a shopping center in Taylor (Detroit), Michigan
  • Southland Corporation, headquarters of 7-11 convenience stores
  • Southland Mall (Columbus, Ohio
    Columbus, Ohio
    Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

    )
  • Southland Mall (Hayward, California)
    Southland Mall (Hayward, California)
    Southland Mall is a major shopping mall in Hayward, California. The mall is primarily a single-level structure, with a small lower level beneath anchor retailer JC Penney, and free standing restaurants in the outlying parking areas. The center is located off I-880 at Winton Avenue, at the western...

  • Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana)
    Southland Mall (Houma, Louisiana)
    Southland Mall is a one-level enclosed shopping mall located in Houma, Louisiana, at the intersection of Bayou Gardens Boulevard and West Park Avenue. The mall services the Houma-Thibodaux area in southeast Louisiana....

  • Southland Mall (Marion, Ohio
    Marion, Ohio
    Marion is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Marion County. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio, approximately north of Columbus....

    )
  • Southland Mall (Memphis, Tennessee)
    Southland Mall (Memphis, Tennessee)
    Southland Mall is a regional shopping mall in the South Memphis neighborhood of Whitehaven. It was built in 1966, becoming the first enclosed mall in the Mid-South. It is managed and co-owned by Urban Retail Properties. There are over 60 stores and 2 anchors include Macy's and Sears.-See also:List...

  • Southland Mall (Miami, Florida)
    Southland Mall (Miami, Florida)
    Southland Mall, originally known as Cutler Ridge Mall, is a shopping mall in Cutler Bay , Florida. It opened in 1978 as an extension of the Cutler Ridge Shopping Center, which itself was opened in 1960...

  • Southland Mall (Regina), a mall in Regina, Saskatchewan
    Regina, Saskatchewan
    Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...

    .
  • Southlands Boulevarde
    Southlands Boulevarde
    Southlands Boulevarde is a shopping centre located in Willetton, Western Australia, along Pinetree Gully Road and facing Willetton Senior High School. Its shops include Woolworths, Coles...

    , a shopping centre in Willetton, Western Australia
  • Southlands Lifestyle Center
    Southlands Lifestyle Center
    Southlands Lifestyle Center is a regional shopping mall located in Aurora, Colorado...

    , an outdoor retail development in Aurora, Colorado
    Aurora, Colorado
    City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality spanning Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties in Colorado. Aurora is an eastern suburb of the Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area . The city is the third most populous city in the Colorado and the 56th most populous city in the...

  • Westfield Southland, a shopping centre in Cheltenham, Victoria

Movies

  • Southland Tales
    Southland Tales
    Southland Tales is a 2006 American-Franco-German science fiction dark comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles...

    , a 2006 science fiction film
  • Southlander
    Southlander
    Southlander is an American independent film by Steve Hanft and Ross Harris.Originally titled Recycler after the Los Angeles magazine of the same name, the filmwriters changed the name of the movie—and a central plot device—to Southlander to avoid trademark issues.- Plot :Down-and-out...

    , an American independent film

Music

  • The Southland (band)
    The Southland (band)
    The Southland is a rock band from Los Angeles. They feature Jed Whedon on keyboards and vocals, Ethan Phillips on bass guitar, and Andy Crosby on drums.The Southland's debut album, Influence of Geography, was released in June 2005...

    , from Los Angeles, California
  • Southland Records
    Southland Records
    Southland Records is a New Orleans, Louisiana based independent record label.Southland was founded c.1948 by Joeseph P. Mares. Mares was the an amateur jazz clarinetist, and the younger brother of noted jazz cornetist Paul Mares...

    , a United States record label
  • The Southlanders
    The Southlanders
    The Southlanders are a Jamaican / British vocal group formed in 1950 by Edrick Connor and Vernon Nesbeth. The group went through a variety of names, including The Caribbeans, South Londoners, and Southerners, before settling on The Southlanders...

    , a British vocal group

Publications

  • Southland
    Southland (novel)
    Southland is a Los Angeles Times best-selling novel and "Best book of 2003" by Nina Revoyr. It focuses on an Asian American's quest for the past and present of racial justice in Los Angeles. The novel is also a Book Sense 76 pick, an Edgar Award finalist, and the winner of the Ferro Grumley Award...

    , a novel by Ninva Revoyr
  • The Southland Times
    The Southland Times
    The Southland Times is the regional daily paper for Southland, including Invercargill, and neighbouring parts of Otago, in New Zealand.-History:...

    , a regional daily paper for Southland, New Zealand

Television

  • Southland TV
    Southland TV
    Cue TV is a regional television station in New Zealand which started in October 1996 as Mercury Television. The original majority shareholder in Mercury TV was the CRT co-operative, before the station was sold to Family Television Network and then West Media 175, a company based in the United...

    , a regional television station
  • Southland (TV series)
    Southland (TV series)
    Southland is an American drama series created by writer Ann Biderman and produced by Warner Bros. Television. It premiered on NBC on April 9, 2009...

    , an American police drama set in Los Angeles.

Educational institutes

In Canada
  • Southlands Elementary School
    Southlands Elementary School
    Southlands Elementary School is a K-7 school located at the western city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia in the Dunbar-Southlands neighbourhood.The first school in the area was the Kerrisdale Annex...

    , a K–7 school in Vancouver, British Columbia

In New Zealand
  • Northern Southland College
    Northern Southland College
    Northern Southland College is a Secondary School for Year 7 to 13. It is located in the town of Lumsden, New Zealand....

    , a secondary school in Lumsden, Southland Region
  • Southland Polytechnic (Southern Institute of Technology
    Southern Institute of Technology
    The Southern Institute of Technology is the most well recognised Tertiary Education Institution of the province of Southland, New Zealand....

    ), a tertiary institution in Invercargill, Southland Region

In The Philippines
  • Southland College
    Southland College
    Southland College or Southland College of Kabankalan Inc. is a private, non-sectarian and coeducational institution located in the fast progressive City of Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, Philippines....

    , a private non-sectarian coeducational institution of higher learning in Kabankalan City
    Kabankalan City
    Kabankalan City is a 1st class city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 166,845 people in 27,851 households....

    , Negros Occidental
    Negros Occidental
    Negros Occidental is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is Bacolod City and it occupies the northwestern half of Negros Island; Negros Oriental is at the southeastern half...


In Sri Lanka
  • Southland Balika
    Southland Balika
    Southlands College, also known as Southlands Girls, is a Girls' school located in Galle, southern capital of Sri Lanka. Southlands College is situated within the historical Galle fort....

    , a women's college in Sri Lanka

In the United Kingdom
  • Southlands College
    Southlands College
    Southlands College may refer to:Higher education:Southlands College, founded by the Methodist Church in 1872, is one of the four constituent colleges of Roehampton University, London, England.Primary/secondary education:...

    , a Methodist college in England

In the United States
  • Southland Academy
    Southland Academy
    Southland Academy is a private, co-educational, non-sectarian Christian college preparatory day school in Americus, Georgia, United States, with over 600 students in grades K through 12, covering ages 4 through 19....

    , a private college preparatory school in Americus, Georgia
  • Southland Independent School District
    Southland Independent School District
    Southland Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Southland, Texas .Located in Garza County, portions of the district extend into Lynn and Lubbock counties....

    , a public school district in the community of Southland, Texas
  • Southland School District
    Southland School District
    The Southland School District, Independent School District 500, is a comprehensive community public school district in Mower County of southeastern Minnesota, United States, covering an area of approximately ....

    , a public school district in Mower county, Minnesota

Sports

  • Southern Steel
    Southern Steel
    The Southern Steel are a New Zealand netball team based in Invercargill that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The franchise was formed as an amalgamation of two teams from the National Bank Cup, the Dunedin-based Otago Rebels and the Invercargill-based Southern Sting...

    , a professional women's netball
    Netball
    Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...

     team from Southland
    Southland Region
    Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

     and Otago region, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

    .
  • Southland Conference
    Southland Conference
    The Southland Conference is a college athletic conference which operates in the south central United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision...

    , an NCAA Division 1 sports conference.
  • Southland Sharks
    Southland Sharks
    The Southland Sharks are a professional basketball team based in the Southland region in the New Zealand National Basketball League.The team plays their home games at Invercargill's Stadium Southland where 3,000 of the 4,500 seats are made available for regular season games.-Establishment:The...

    , a professional men's basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     team from Southland
    Southland Region
    Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

    , New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

    .
  • Southland Stags, a professional men's rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     team from Southland
    Southland Region
    Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

    , New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

    .

Transportation

  • HMT Southland
    HMT Southland
    HMT Southland was an ocean liner launched in July 1900 as SS Vaderland for Red Star Line service between Antwerp and New York. During her passenger career, the ship initially sailed under British registry, but was re-registered in Antwerp in 1903...

     (1900), a Belgium tramp steamer
  • Southland (C-Train)
    Southland (C-Train)
    Southland is a stop on the South Line of the C-Train light rail system in Calgary, Alberta. Southland station is located approximately 9 km from downtown Calgary....

    , a stop on the South Line of the C-Train light rail system in Calgary, Alberta
  • The Southland (passenger train), a former passenger train linking Chicago, Illinois with the west coast of Florida operated by the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
  • Southland Mall (Bus Stop), a stop on Lines 22, 86, 97, 386, and 391 of the AC Transit
    AC Transit
    AC Transit is an Oakland-based regional public transit agency serving the western half of Alameda County and parts of western Contra Costa County in the western, Bay-side area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area...

     system in Hayward, California
    Hayward, California
    Hayward is a city located in the East Bay in Alameda County, California. With a population of 144,186, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 37th most populous municipality in California. It is included in...

    .
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