States That Start With S

States that start with S: 2 US states do, South Carolina, South Dakota. The table gives each state's postal abbreviation, capital and largest cities, and the lists below show state capitals and US cities that start with S.

S offers two states, and they come as a matched pair: South Carolina and South Dakota. One sits on the Atlantic coast in the Southeast, while the other lies far inland on the northern Great Plains, so the shared word South does not mean they are neighbours.

Their capitals are a good test. Columbia leads South Carolina as capital while also being its largest city. South Dakota is trickier: the capital is Pierre, a small city, while Sioux Falls is the largest. Pierre is said like "peer", which surprises many people seeing it written down.