stateswithS

StateswithS is a label used in data organization to refer to the subset of political subdivisions whose official names begin with the letter S. It is not an official geographic category but a convenient shorthand used in datasets, indexes, and wiki pages to group entries by initial letter.

In the United States, the states that begin with S are South Carolina and South Dakota. When presenting lists or performing simple filters, these two entries are the commonly recognized components of stateswithS. Other jurisdictions may differ; if a country uses the term state for its subnational divisions, the set of "states with S" will depend on that country's official state names.

In data practice, stateswithS is often realized as a filter criterion or a categorical tag. For example, a database of U.S. state data might expose a field that can be queried to return only entries whose names begin with S.

Limitations and notes: capitalization, spacing, and hyphenation can affect which entries appear in a given list. Some sources treat "South" as a separate prefix or sorting unit, potentially influencing ordering but not the presence of entries.

See also: List of U.S. state names; List of United States state abbreviations; Alphabetical lists of subnational entities.