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1490 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 20 of 25.

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Samara OblastRURussian Volga region hosting the Promsintez factory and Syzran refinery, both struck by Ukraine in 2026.
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SamoaWSPolynesian island nation in the South Pacific; capital Apia.
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SanaaYEYemen's capital and largest city, held by the Houthis since September 2014.
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San Bartolomé de TirajanaESGran Canaria resort municipality with 54,116 residents and one of the island’s largest tourist-bed inventories.
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Sancti SpíritusCUA central Cuban city, the other endpoint of the transmission line whose failure collapsed the grid on 10 July.
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San DiegoUSPacific coast city in California; hub for US Navy and Artemis II splashdown recovery.
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SandwellGBWest Midlands borough; projected minus-32 Labour swing — sharpest in YouGov's West Midlands MRP.
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San FranciscoUSCalifornia Bay Area city; global technology hub; 2026 World Cup host at Levi's Stadium.
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San JacopinoITRione in Florence's Quartiere 1, just outside the UNESCO historic centre.
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San SiroITFootball stadium in Milan; home of AC Milan and Inter Milan
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Santa ClaraUSSilicon Valley city in California; home of Levi's Stadium, a 2026 World Cup host venue.
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Santa Clara, CubaCUVilla Clara's capital and central Cuban city, linked to grid failures and private exchange reform.
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Santa Cruz del NorteCUMunicipality and town in Mayabeque province, Cuba, where the CTE Ernesto Guevara power station is located.
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Santa Fe CountyUSNew Mexico county that passed an 18-month data-centre moratorium at a 1 MW threshold.
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Santa Teresa, New MexicoUSNew Mexico town hosting the Project Jupiter data-centre campus.
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Santiago de ChileCLChilean capital; its metropolitan Cerrillos commune hosts Google's disputed data-centre project.
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Santiago de CubaCUCuba's second city and eastern energy hub; two provinces worst-hit by the 2026 grid fragmentation.
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SantoriniGRGreek Aegean island; under review for STR cap extension under Law 5275/2026.
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SantosBRBrazilian port city in Sao Paulo state; home of Santos FC, birthplace of Pele's and Neymar's careers.
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São PauloBRBrazilian municipality and capital city of São Paulo state.
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São Paulo stateBRBrazil's most populous state and largest economy, capital São Paulo city.
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SapporoJPHokkaido's largest city; stacks its own ¥200–¥500 accommodation tax on top of the prefecture levy.
Sarallah HeadquartersIRIRGC Aerospace Force command centre in Tehran; a primary target in the 2026 Iran war.
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SaratovRUVolga city and capital of Saratov Oblast, home to Rosneft's Saratov oil refinery.
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SaravanIRCity in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, south-east Iran, near the Pakistan border; site of recurring IRGC anti-insurgency operations.
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SasovoRUTown in eastern Ryazan Oblast, Russia, home to a Yandex data centre and supercomputers.
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Saudi ArabiaSAArabian Peninsula monarchy, founding OPEC member and major oil exporter.
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Sault Ste. MarieCACity in northern Ontario, Canada.
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Savidor CentralILTel Aviv main railway station, damaged by Iranian missile strike forcing rail suspension.
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SC-01USSouth Carolina's 1st congressional district, the Lowcountry and Charleston coast, Cook-downgraded in June 2026.
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Scala AI CityBRScala Data Centers' campus at Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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Schengen AreaEuropean area of 29 countries with shared short-stay rules and generally open internal borders.
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SchrobenhausenDEBavarian town; planned site of Raytheon GEM-T production under Germany's €4bn Ukraine deal.
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ScotlandGBConstituent country of the United Kingdom, with a devolved parliament and government at Holyrood.
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Sea of AzovShallow inland sea between Russia and Ukraine, now a fuel-tanker war chokepoint.
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SeattleUSWashington city that approved a one-year moratorium on large data-centre applications in June 2026.
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Seattle, WashingtonUSWashington state's largest city, seat of the Western District federal court.
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Secaucus JunctionUSNJ Transit's Hudson County interchange, the primary transfer point between Penn Station and New Jersey.
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Sedges CreekUSEphemeral Louisa County stream now permitted for Amazon's cooling-water discharge into Lake Anna, without PFAS testing.
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SelangorMYMalaysian state applying a local-content requirement to data centres.
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SeminyakIDBali upscale beach resort area; included in Indonesia's immigration task force patrol zones.
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SemnanIRNorthern Iranian province spanning Alborz foothills to central desert, between Tehran and Khorasan.
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SenegalSNWest African nation of 18 million; AFCON champions; 2026 World Cup eliminated in group stage.
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SeoulKRSouth Korea's capital; a global finance hub whose markets seize when the Gulf burns.
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SerbiaRSBalkan republic and TurkStream transit country; explosives found near the pipeline on 5 April 2026.
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Serena HotelPKIslamabad luxury hotel hosting the first formal US-Iran ceasefire negotiations since 1979.
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SevastopolUABlack Sea port city in Crimea, Russian-occupied since 2014; home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
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SeychellesSCIndian Ocean island republic.
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Seyyed Al Shohada mosqueIRShia mosque in Pakdasht, Tehran Province; at the centre of an imminent execution case.
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ShabwaYESouth-eastern Yemeni governorate linking inland oil areas to the Arabian Sea coast.
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Shackleton craterLunar south-pole crater; target for both Artemis and Chang'e 7, with water ice inferred on its floor.
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Shah Gas FieldAEUltra-sour gas megaproject jointly operated by ADNOC and Occidental Petroleum, 180 km southwest of Abu Dhabi. Processes approximately 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day from feed gas with ~23% hydrogen sulphide content. Struck by drone on 17 March 2026; operations suspended.
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Shahid Nojeh Air BaseIRIranian Air Force base in Hamedan used to launch the April 2024 attack on Israel.
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Shahid Yasini Air BaseIRIranian Army air base in Bushehr province where two soldiers were killed on 10 July 2026.
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ShahrudIRCity in Iran's Semnan province on the Tehran-Mashhad route; also covers its central prison.
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ShanghaiCNChina's largest city; global financial centre and the world's busiest container port.
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SharjahAEEmirate in the UAE; hosts multiple free trade zones.
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Shaybah OilfieldSASaudi Aramco oilfield in the Empty Quarter, where drone debris killed workers in 2026.
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SheffieldGBSouth Yorkshire city; headquarters of the British Business Bank.
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Sheikh Isa airbaseBHUS military airbase in Bahrain, claimed target of an IRGC drone strike.