Southern Army may refer to one of the following.
- Southern Expeditionary Army Group, part of the Imperial Japanese Army during the World War II era.
- Essercito Meridionale of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
- Southern Army, a name under which Southern Command (India) of the British Indian Army operated from 1942-45.
- Russian Southern Army (World War I)
- Soviet Southern Army (Great Patriotic War), sometimes confused with the Soviet Southern Front.
- Southern Army of Gondor from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fictional realm.
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