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[[Image:Compass Rose English South.svg|thumb|A [[compass rose]] with south highlighted]]
'''South''' is one of [[cardinal directions]] and is opposite to the [[north]].
By [[Western world|Western]] [[Norm (sociology)|convention]], the bottom side of a [[map]] is south; the southern direction has [[azimuth]] or [[bearing (navigation)|bearing]] of 180°.
True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the [[earth]] rotates, called the [[South Pole]] and located in [[Antarctica]]. [[Magnetic south]] is the direction towards the south [[Earth's magnetic field|magnetic pole]], some distance away from the south geographic pole.
The [[etymology]] of "south" comes the [[Old English language|Old English]] word ''suth'', related to the [[Old High German]] word ''sund'', and perhaps ''sunne'' in [[Old English]], with the sense of "the region of the [[sun]]" (sun culminates in the south in the northern hemisphere).
"[[The South]]" usually refers to "regions or countries lying to the south of a specified or implied point of orientation, especially the southeastern part of the United States"<ref name=M-W>''[[Merriam-Webster Dictionary]]'': http://www.m-w.com</ref>, i. e. the '''[[Southern United States]]''' and mainly the '''[[Deep South]]''', in a general historical context. ''The South'' is also used for "the developing nations of the world",<ref name=M-W /> i. e. the [[third world]]: see [[North-South divide]].
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