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The South



 
  The South may refer to:

Geographic Regions

  • The South
    Southern United States

    The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States....
    , a region of the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     comprised chiefly of states which were part of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
    • The Deep South
      Deep South

      The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the Southern United States. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states which were most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the antebellum period....
       and Upland South
      Upland South

      The terms Upper South and Upland South refer to the northern part of the Southern United States, in contrast to the Lower South or Deep South....
      , subregions of the Southern United States
  • The South of Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     (Republic of Ireland
    Republic of Ireland

    Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
    )
  • The South
    Southern England

    Southern England is an imprecise term used to refer to the southern counties of England. Differing usages apply the term with varying geographic extents....
     of England, a relatively wealthy area in England home to roughly two-thirds of the population. (see also: South East England
    South East England

    South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, designated in 1994 and adopted for statistical purposes in 1999. Its boundaries include Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex....
    , North-South divide in the United Kingdom
    North-South divide in the United Kingdom

    In Great Britain the term North-South divide refers to the economic and cultural differences between southern England; the South East of England, Greater London, South West England and parts of East of England, and the rest of the United Kingdom, generally including Scotland, Wales, North East of England, North West of England and Yorkshire...
    )
  • the South
    Southern France

    Southern France , colloquially known as le Midi, is a loosely defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Gironde, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, and Switzerland south of the Jura Mountains....
     of France (Le Midi), a region known for its warm climate and tourism
  • South Korea
    South Korea

    South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
    , as referred to by the North Koreans and pronounced as Nam-Chosun
  • The southern regions
    Mezzogiorno

    Southern Italy generally refers to the southern portion of the continental Italian peninsula historically forming the Kingdom of Naples. It encompasses the modern regions of Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Apulia and Molise, which lie in Italy's south, and Abruzzo which is located in central Italy....
     of Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • The southern states of the global economic North-South divide
    North-South divide

    The North-South Divide is the socioeconomics and politics division that exists between the wealthy developed country, known collectively as "the North", and the poorer developing countries , or "the South." Although most nations comprising the "North" are in fact located in the Northern Hemisphere, the divide is not primarily defined by geog...
  • The southern hemisphere
    Southern Hemisphere

    The Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is south of the equator?the word sphere literally means 'half ball'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere south of the celestial equator....
  • The South (Spanish: El Sur) Chile south of Bío-Bío River
    Bío-Bío River

    The Biob?o River is the second largest river in Chile. It originates from Icalma and Galletu? lakes in the Andes and flows 380 km to the Gulf of Arauco on the Pacific Ocean....
     (Zona Sur and Zona Austral natural regions
    Natural regions of Chile

    Because Chile extends from a point about 625 kilometers north of the Tropic of Capricorn to a point hardly more than 1,400 kilometers north of the Antarctic Circle, within its territory can be found a broad selection of the earth's climates....
    )
  • South Province (Cameroon)
    South Province (Cameroon)

    The South Province is located in the southwestern and south-central portion of the Cameroon. It is bordered to the east by the East Province, Cameroon, to the north by the Centre Province, Cameroon, to the northwest by the Littoral Province, Cameroon, to the west by the Gulf of Guinea , and to the south by the countries of Equatorial Guinea,...


Other

  • The South (Rugby)
    The South (Rugby)

    The South was a select rugby union Team that drew its players from over the South of Scotland mainly the Scottish Borders, where there has always been a proud tradition of rugby union....
    , a select Rugby Union team that drew its players from the South of Scotland
  • The South (band), an emoviolence band.
  • The South (Borges story)
    The South (Borges story)

    The South is a short story by Argentina author Jorge Luis Borges, first published in La Naci?n in 1953, and which appeared in the second edition of Ficciones, part two ....
  • South
    South

    South is one of the cardinal directions and is opposite to the north.By Western world Norm , the bottom side of a map is south; the southern direction has azimuth or bearing of 180?....
    , one of the four cardinal directions.