# SF

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**SF** or **Sf** may refer to:

## Locations

- [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), California, United States
- [Sioux Falls, South Dakota](/source/Sioux_Falls,_South_Dakota), United States
- [Sidi Fredj](/source/Sidi_Fredj), Algeria
- [South Florida](/source/South_Florida), an urban region in the United States
- Suomi Finland, [former vehicular country code for Finland](/source/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#SF-Transitional)

## Arts and entertainment

### Genres

- [Speculative fiction](/source/Speculative_fiction) (usually *sf*) - [Science fiction](/source/Science_fiction) or sci-fi (usually *SF*)

### Film and television

- [Svensk Filmindustri](/source/Svensk_Filmindustri), the Swedish film industry - [SF Film Finland](/source/SF_Film_Finland), a Finnish film distributor
- [SF Channel (Australia)](/source/SF_Channel_(Australia))
- [Schweizer Fernsehen](/source/Schweizer_Fernsehen), a German-language television network in Switzerland
- [Suomen Filmiteollisuus](/source/Suomen_Filmiteollisuus), a Finnish film production company

### Music

- [Sforzando (musical direction)](/source/Sforzando_(musical_direction)) or sf, a musical accent
- *Subito forte*, a musical notation for [dynamics (music)](/source/Dynamics_(music))
- [Switchfoot](/source/Switchfoot), a band
- Sasha Fierce, on-stage alter ego of American entertainer Beyoncé, and namesake of her album *[I Am... Sasha Fierce](/source/I_Am..._Sasha_Fierce)*

### Other media

- [Saikoro Fiction](/source/Saikoro_Fiction), a Japanese role-playing game system
- *[Street Fighter](/source/Street_Fighter)*, a series of fighting video games by Capcom

## Businesses and organizations

### Politics

- [Salzburg Forum](/source/Salzburg_Forum), European security intergovernmental organization
- [Samoa First](/source/Samoa_First_Party), a political party in Samoa
- [Sinn Féin](/source/Sinn_F%C3%A9in), an Irish political party
- [Socialistisk Folkeparti](/source/Socialistisk_Folkeparti), a political party in Denmark
- [Sosialistisk Folkeparti](/source/Sosialistisk_Folkeparti), a splinter group of the Norwegian Labour Party

### Other businesses and organizations

- [Statsforetak](/source/Statsforetak), a type of Norwegian state enterprise
- [SF Express](/source/SF_Express), a Chinese multinational delivery services and logistics company - [SF Airlines](/source/SF_Airlines), a Chinese cargo airline owned by SF Express
- [SF Group](/source/SF_Group), a cinema and entertainment venue operator in Thailand
- [Salesforce](/source/Salesforce), an American cloud computing company specializing in customer resource management
- [Six Flags](/source/Six_Flags), an American amusement park company - [Six Flags (1961–2024)](/source/Six_Flags_(1961%E2%80%932024)), a defunct amusement park company that merged with Cedar Fair in 2024
- [SourceForge](/source/SourceForge), a web-based service that offers a source code repository, download mirrors, bug tracking and other features
- [Space forces](/source/Space_forces), military service branches for space operations
- [Special forces](/source/Special_forces), military units trained to perform unconventional missions
- [State Farm](/source/State_Farm), an American insurance company
- [Tassili Airlines](/source/Tassili_Airlines) (IATA designator SF)
- A common shorthand for "Standard Form", a designation used by the [United States Office of Personnel Management](/source/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management) for forms used across various government agencies

## Science, math, and engineering

- [DOH-5-hemiFLY](/source/DOH-5-hemiFLY) (semi-fly; SF), a psychedelic drug
- [Significant figures](/source/Significant_figures), numeric digits contributing meaningfully to measurement resolution
- [Safety factor](/source/Safety_factor), the capacity of a system beyond expected or actual loads
- [Small find](/source/Small_find), an artifact independent from other artifacts
- [Spontaneous fission](/source/Spontaneous_fission), a form of radioactive decay found in very heavy elements
- [Square foot](/source/Square_foot), unit of area
- [Stacking fault](/source/Stacking_fault), a dislocation in a crystal
- S.F., an acronym name for [stick figures](/source/Stick_figure)

## Sports

- A common abbreviation for the U.S. city of [San Francisco, California](/source/San_Francisco)'s major professional sports teams: - [San Francisco 49ers](/source/San_Francisco_49ers), the city's National Football League team - [San Francisco Giants](/source/San_Francisco_Giants), the city's Major League Baseball team
- [Small forward](/source/Small_forward), a position in basketball
- [Stade Français](/source/Stade_Fran%C3%A7ais), a French rugby union team based in Paris
- [Superleague Formula](/source/Superleague_Formula), a former motorsport racing series
- [Super Formula Championship](/source/Super_Formula_Championship), a Japanese motorsport racing series
- [Sacrifice fly](/source/Sacrifice_fly), a play in baseball
- [Semi-finals](/source/Semi-finals), a round in elimination tournaments
- [Scuderia Ferrari](/source/Scuderia_Ferrari), an Italian Formula One team

## Other uses

- [San Francisco (sans-serif typeface)](/source/San_Francisco_(sans-serif_typeface)), Apple's sans-serif and corporate typeface
- [United States Air Force Security Forces](/source/United_States_Air_Force_Security_Forces), the ground combat, force protection and military police force of the U.S. Air Force
- [United States Army Special Forces](/source/United_States_Army_Special_Forces), special operations organization of the U.S. Army
- [Selle Français](/source/Selle_Fran%C3%A7ais), a French breed of horse
- A former [hull classification symbol](/source/Hull_classification_symbol) for a fleet submarine in the United States Navy
- [Franklin Avenue Shuttle](/source/Franklin_Avenue_Shuttle) in New York City, sometimes signed as SF in documents

## See also

- Garland SF-01 and Garland SF-03, fictional racing cars in *[Future GPX Cyber Formula](/source/Future_GPX_Cyber_Formula)*

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