On this Wikipedia the language links are at the south shore athletic club of the page across from the article title. South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.

Proto-Indo-European root that the word sun derived from. América Invertida, drawn in 1943, by Joaquín Torres García. By convention, the bottom or down-facing side of a map is south, although reversed maps exist that defy this convention. True south is one end of the axis about which the Earth rotates, called the South Pole.

The South Pole is located in Antarctica. Roald Amundsen, from Norway, was the first person to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911, after Ernest Shackleton from the UK was forced to turn back some distance short. The Global South refers to the socially and economically less-developed southern half of the globe. Global North has enough food and shelter, and a functioning education system. Use of the term “South” may also be country-relative, particularly in cases of noticeable economic or cultural divide. The country of South Africa is so named because of its location at the southern tip of Africa. Upon formation the country was named the Union of South Africa in English, reflecting its origin from the unification of four formerly separate British colonies.