List of Countries in S

Saint Helena

Local Name : Saint Helena
Territory of British overseas
Capital : Jamestown
Other Major Cities : Half Tree Hollow, Saint Paul's
Currency : Saint Helena pound
Total Area in km2 : 308
Languages : English
Population : 4,255 (February 10, 2008)
Time Zone : UTC (GMT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SH / SHN
Dialing Country Codes : 290


Saint Kitts and Nevis

Queen : Elizabeth II
Governor-General : Sir Cuthbert Sebastian
Prime Minister : Denzil Douglas
Capital : Basseterre
Currency : East Caribbean dollar
Total Area in km2 : 261
Languages : English
Population : 51,970 (July 1, 2009)
Time Zone : UTC−04:00
Continent : North America
ISO Country Codes : KN / KNA
Dialing Country Codes : 1 869


Saint Lucia

Queen : Elizabeth II
Governor-General : Dame Pearlette Louisy
Prime Minister : Kenny Anthony
Capital : Castries
Currency : East Caribbean dollar
Total Area in km2 : 616
Languages : English
Population : 166,526 (May 10, 2010)
Time Zone : UTC−04:00
Continent : North America
ISO Country Codes : LC / LCA
Dialing Country Codes : 1 758


Saint-Pierre and Miquelon

Local Name : Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
Territory of France
Capital : Saint-Pierre
Currency :
Total Area in km2 : 242
Languages : French
Population : 6,082 (January 1, 2009)
Time Zone : UTC−03:00 (PMST)
Continent : Euro
ISO Country Codes : PM / SPM
Dialing Country Codes : 508


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Queen : Elizabeth II
Governor-General : Sir Frederick Ballantyne
Prime Minister : Ralph Gonsalves
Capital : Kingstown
Currency : East Caribbean dollar
Total Area in km2 : 389
Languages : English
Population : 100,892 (July 1, 2009)
Time Zone : UTC−04:00
Continent : North America
ISO Country Codes : VC / VCT
Dialing Country Codes : 1 784


Samoa

Local Name : Samoa
President : O le Ao o le Malo Tufuga Efi
Prime Minister : Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Capital : Apia
Currency : Samoan tālā
Total Area in km2 : 2,842
Languages : English, Samoan
Population : 184,032 (July 1, 2010)
Time Zone : UTC+13:00
Continent : Oceania
ISO Country Codes : WS / WSM
Dialing Country Codes : 685


San Marino

Local Name : San Marino
Captain : Regent Gabriele Gatti
Captain : Regent Matteo Fiorini
Capital : San Marino
Other Major Cities : Serravalle
Currency : Euro
Total Area in km2 : 61
Languages : Italian
Population : 32,193 (December 31, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+01:00 (CET)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : SM / SMR
Dialing Country Codes : 378


Sao Tome and Principe

Local Name : Sao Tome e Principe
President : Manuel Pinto da Costa
Prime Minister : Patrice Trovoada
Capital : São Tomé
Currency : São Tomé and Príncipe dobra
Total Area in km2 : 964
Languages : Portuguese
Population : 169,000 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC (GMT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : ST / STP
Dialing Country Codes : 239


Saudi Arabia

Local Name : Al Arabiyah as Suudiyah
King : Abdullah
Capital : Riyadh
Currency : Saudi riyal
Total Area in km2 : 2,149,690
Languages : Arabic
Population : 27,136,977 (April 28, 2010)
Time Zone : UTC+03:00 (Arabia Standard Time)
Continent : Asia
ISO Country Codes : SA / SAU
Dialing Country Codes : 966


Senegal

Local Name : Senegal
President : Abdoulaye Wade
Prime Minister : Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye
Capital : Dakar
Currency : West African CFA franc
Total Area in km2 : 196,722
Languages : French
Population : 12,855,153 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC (GMT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SN / SEN
Dialing Country Codes : 221


Serbia

Local Name : Srbija
President : Boris Tadić
Prime Minister : Mirko Cvetković
Capital : Belgrade
Currency : Serbian dinar
Total Area in km2 : 88,361
Languages : Serbian
Population : 7,120,666 (October 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+01:00 (CET)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : RS / SRB
Dialing Country Codes : 381


Seychelles

Local Name : Seychelles
President : James Michel
Capital : Victoria
Currency : Seychellois rupee
Total Area in km2 : 452
Languages : Seychellois Creole, French, English
Population : 90,945 (August 26, 2010)
Time Zone : UTC+04:00 (Seychelles Time)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SC / SYC
Dialing Country Codes : 248


Sierra Leone

Local Name : Sierra Leone
President : Ernest Bai Koroma
Capital : Freetown
Currency : Sierra Leonean leone
Total Area in km2 : 71,740
Languages : English
Population : 5,997,000 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC (GMT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SL / SLE
Dialing Country Codes : 232


Singapore

Local Name : Singapore
President : Tony Tan Keng Yam
Prime Minister : Lee Hsien Loong
Capital : Singapore
Currency : Singapore dollar, Brunei dollar
Total Area in km2 : 710
Languages : Malay, English, Mandarin Chinese (Simplified Chinese characters),Tamil (Tamil script)
Population : 5,183,700 (June 30, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+08:00 (SST)
Continent : Asia
ISO Country Codes : SG / SGP
Dialing Country Codes : 65


Slovakia

Local Name : Slovensko
President : Ivan Gašparovič
Prime Minister : Iveta Radičová
Capital : Bratislava
Currency : Euro
Total Area in km2 : 49,037
Languages : Slovak
Population : 5,445,324 (September 30, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+01:00 (CET)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : SK / SVK
Dialing Country Codes : 421


Slovenia

Local Name : Slovenija
President : Danilo Türk
Prime Minister : Janez Janša
Capital : Ljubljana
Currency : Euro
Total Area in km2 : 20,273
Languages : Slovene
Population : 2,056,530 (February 23, 2012)
Time Zone : UTC+01:00 (CET)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : SI / SVN
Dialing Country Codes : 386


Solomon Islands

Local Name : Solomon Islands
Queen : Elizabeth II
Governor-General : Sir Frank Kabui
Prime Minister : Gordon Darcy Lilo
Capital : Honiara
Currency : Solomon Islands dollar
Total Area in km2 : 28,896
Languages : English
Population : 542,287 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+11:00
Continent : Ocenia
ISO Country Codes : SB / SLB
Dialing Country Codes : 677


Somalia

Local Name : Somalia
President : Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
Prime Minister : Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
Capital : Mogadishu
Currency : Somali shilling
Total Area in km2 : 637,657
Languages : Somali, Arabic
Population : 9,557,000 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+03:00 (EAT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SO / SOM
Dialing Country Codes : 252


South Africa

Local Name : South Africa
President : Jacob Zuma
Capital : Pretoria (official, administrative, and executive),Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
Other Major Cities : Johannesburg, Durban
Currency : South African rand
Total Area in km2 : 1,221,037
Languages : English,Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Sotho, Tswana, Venda, Tsonga, Swazi, Ndebele
Population : 50,586,757 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+02:00 (South African Standard Time)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : ZA / ZAF
Dialing Country Codes : 27

South Sudan

Local Name : South Sudan
President : Salva Kiir Mayardit
Capital : Juba
Currency : South Sudanese pound
Total Area in km2 : 644,329
Languages : English
Population : 8,260,490 (April 22, 2008)
Time Zone : UTC+03:00 (EAT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SS / SSD
Dialing Country Codes : 211


Spain

Local Name : España
King : Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister : Mariano Rajoy
Capital : Madrid
Currency : Euro
Total Area in km2 : 505,370
Languages : Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque, Aranese
Population : 46,196,278 (January 1, 2012)
Time Zone 1 : UTC (WET) — Canary Islands

Time Zone 2 : UTC+01:00 (CET) — main territory of Spain
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : ES / ESP
Dialing Country Codes : 34


Sri Lanka

Local Name : Sri Lanka
President : Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prime Minister : D. M. Jayaratne
Capital : Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
Other Major Cities : Colombo
Currency : Sri Lankan rupee
Total Area in km2 : 65,610
Languages : Sinhala, Tamil
Population : 20,653,000 (July 1, 2010)
Time Zone : UTC+05:30 (SLT)
Continent : Asia
ISO Country Codes : LK / LKA
Dialing Country Codes : 94


Sudan

Local Name : As-Sudan
President : Omar al-Bashir
Capital : Khartoum
Other Major Cities : Omdurman
Currency : Sudanese pound
Total Area in km2 : 1,861,484
Languages : Arabic
Population : 30,894,000 (April 22, 2008)
Time Zone : UTC+03:00 (EAT)
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SD / SDN
Dialing Country Codes : 249


Suriname

Local Name : Suriname
President : Dési Bouterse
Capital : Paramaribo
Currency : Surinamese dollar
Total Area in km2 : 163,820
Languages : Dutch
Population : 529,000 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC−03:00
Continent : South America
ISO Country Codes : SR / SUR
Dialing Country Codes : 597


Svalbard

Local Name : Spitzbergen
Region of Norway
Capital : Longyearbyen
Currency : Norwegian krone
Total Area in km2 : 62,045
Languages : Norwegian
Population : 2,394 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : CET (UTC +1)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : SJ / SJM
Dialing Country Codes : 47


Swaziland

Local Name : Swaziland
King : Mswati III
Prime Minister : Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Capital : Mbabane (official), Lobamba (legislative and royal)
Other Major Cities : Manzini
Currency : Swazi lilangeni
Total Area in km2 : 17,364
Languages : English
Population : 1,203,000 (July 1, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+02:00
Continent : Africa
ISO Country Codes : SZ / SWZ
Dialing Country Codes : 268


Sweden

Local Name : Sverige
King : Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister : Fredrik Reinfeldt
Capital : Stockholm
Currency : Swedish krona
Total Area in km2 : 450,295
Languages : Swedish
Population : 9,482,855 (December 31, 2011)
Time Zone : UTC+01:00 (CET)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : SE / SWE
Dialing Country Codes : 46


Switzerland

Local Name : Schweiz (German), Suisse (French), Svizzera (Italian)
Federal Council: Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (Pres.), Ueli Maurer (VP), Doris Leuthard, Didier Burkhalter, Simonetta Sommaruga, Johann Schneider-Ammann, Alain Berset
Capital : Bern
Other Major Cities : Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne
Currency : Swiss franc
Total Area in km2 : 41,284
Languages : German, French, Italian, Romansh
Population : 7,870,100 (December 31, 2010)
Time Zone : UTC+01:00 (CET)
Continent : Europe
ISO Country Codes : CH / CHE
Dialing Country Codes : 41


Syria

Local Name : Suriyah
President : Bashar al-Assad
Prime Minister : Adel Safar
Capital : Damascus
Other Major Cities : Aleppo
Currency : Syrian pound
Total Area in km2 : 185,180
Languages : Arabic
Population : 21,453,000 (February 23, 2012)
Time Zone : UTC+02:00 (EET)
Continent : Asia
ISO Country Codes : SY / SYR
Dialing Country Codes : 963