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List of newspapers named Sun

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ20715804 ↗
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Sun or The Sun is the name of the following newspapers:

Australia

The Sun (Brisbane), formerly The Daily Sun, discontinued newspaper of News Limited

The Sun (Sydney), a discontinued afternoon tabloid

The Sun News-Pictorial, tabloid now merged into the Herald Sun

Burma

The Sun (Rangoon)

Canada

Ordered by province

Calgary Sun, Alberta

Edmonton Sun, Alberta

The Vancouver Sun, British Columbia

Winnipeg Sun, Manitoba

Brandon Sun, Manitoba

Ottawa Sun, Ontario

Toronto Sun, Ontario

Ceylon

Sun (Ceylon), a defunct Ceylonese newspaper

Hong Kong

The Sun (Hong Kong), a defunct Chinese-language newspaper

The SUN (Hong Kong), an English-language newspaper for Filipinos

Hungary

The Budapest Sun

Malaysia

The Sun (Malaysia)

New Zealand

The Sun (New Zealand)

Nigeria

The Sun (Nigeria)

United Kingdom

The Sun (United Kingdom), a current daily national tabloid

The Sun (1792–1876), a defunct British newspaper

The Sun (1893–1906), a defunct British newspaper

United States

Ordered by state

The San Bernardino Sun, of California

Sonoma Valley Sun, of California

The Gainesville Sun, Florida

Parsons Sun, of Kansas

The Baltimore Sun, Maryland

The Sun (Lowell), Massachusetts

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