SF

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SF is a two-letter abbreviation which may refer to:

• San Francisco, California, a city with a population of more than 730,000, located on the West Coast of the United States.
  • The San Francisco Giants, a franchise in the MLB
  • The San Francisco 49ers, a franchise in the NFL
• Sinn Féin, Irish political party with links with the IRA.
• Schweizer Fernsehen (Swiss Television)
• Science fiction, a literary genre ("Speculative fiction" is sometimes abbreviated "spec-fic," "S-F," "SF," or "sf.")
• Senses Fail a hardcore punk band from New Jersey
• Scuderia Ferrari, the racing division of the Ferrari automobile company
• Significant figures (in mathematics)
• Soldier Front
• SourceForge, a collaborative software development management system
• SourceForts, a modification for Half-Life 2
• Special forces - small, highly trained and specialised military units
• Speculative fiction, term coined by Robert A. Heinlein as a synonym for science fiction, but which has been broadened subsequently— a literary genre which now is meant to include Science Fiction as but one of its subgenre.
• Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria
• Street Fighter, a series of electronic fighting games by the company Capcom
• Stade Français Paris, a French rugby union team
• Syphon Filter, A series of action-shooter games on the Sony Playstation consoles.
• Danish Socialist People's Party (an abbreviation for the Danish name "Socialistisk Folkeparti")
• The Six Flags chain of theme parks
• Swedish Film Industry (Svensk Filmindustri)
• Switchfoot - an alt-rock band
• Scaterd Few - a Christian punk band
• Stellar frontier - A game by Stardock in 1997.
• Tassili Airlines, IATA airline designator
• Salad Fingers - A flash animation created by David Firth
• Strategy First - A game software company
• An obscure alternative abbreviation for the Valley Girl slang term "As if!" (see Valspeak)
• Spontaneous fission - A nuclear decay route in which a superheavy nucleus splits into two.

Former (now defunct) uses of SF include:

• Finland as an abbreviation for "Suomi-Finland". ("Suomi" is the Finnish name for Finland.)
• Suomen Filmiteollisuus, a Finnish film production company, was abbreviated SF.
• the Hull classification symbol for a "Fleet Submarine" in the United States Navy