Chia may refer to:

Plants

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Salvia hispanica ''Salvia hispanica'', commonly known as chia (), is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala. It is considered a pseudocereal, cultivated for its edible, hydrophilic chia s ...

'', flowering plant in the sage family **

Chia seed Chia seeds are the edible seeds of ''Salvia hispanica'', a flowering plant in the mint family ( Lamiaceae) native to central and southern Mexico, or of the related ''Salvia columbariae'' of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Chia seeds ...

, edible seeds of ''Salvia hispanica'' * ''

Salvia columbariae ''Salvia columbariae'' is an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia, or desert chia, because its seeds are used in the same way as those of ''Salvia hispanica'' (Chia seed, chia). It grows in California, Nevada, Utah, ...

'', an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia or desert chia * ''

Salvia polystachya ''Salvia polystachya'' is a herbaceous perennial native to central Mexico and south into Guatemala and Panama, typically growing at elevations from 5,000 to 10,000 feet in mild climates where there is some summer rain. It is rarely seen in hortic ...

'', a herbaceous perennial plant native to Mexico, Guatemala and Panama

Places

* Chía, Aragon, a municipality in Spain *

Chía, Cundinamarca Chía is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia, located to the north of Bogotá on the main road to Zipaquira. Its history dates back to the pre-Columbian era. Due to its proximity to Bogotá, Chía has effectivel ...

, a town and municipality in Colombia *

Chia (Sardinia) Chia (pronounced /kia/), also named Baia di Chia, is a coastal area in southern Sardinia (Italy), which is also a village, ''frazione'' of the municipality of Domus de Maria, in the Province of South Sardinia The Province of South Sardinia ( ...

, a coastal area and village in Sardinia, Italy * , a frazione in

Soriano nel Cimino Soriano nel Cimino is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, central Italy. The town is overlooked by Monte Cimino, the highest peak in the Monti Cimini. Main sights *The Orsini Castle, built by Orso Orsini in the 13th centur ...

, central Italy

Personal names

Chia (surname) Chia is a surname. It is a Latin-alphabet spelling of various Chinese surnames, as well as an Italian surname. Statistics Chia was the 20th-most common Chinese surname in Singapore as of 1997 (ranked by English spelling, rather than by Chinese c ...

, a surname in various cultures **

Xie (surname) Xie (; ) is a Chinese-language surname. lt is usually romanized as "Hsieh" in Taiwan. It is estimated that there are more than ten million people with this surname, the majority of whom live in Taiwan, Southern China, South East Asia, America, ...

, a Chinese surname often spelled Chia in Singapore and Malaysia **

Jia (surname) Jiǎ () is a surname. Chia is the corresponding Wade-Giles romanization, which is commonly used in Taiwan. Ka is the corresponding Cantonese-based romanization, which is used in Hong Kong and other Cantonese-speaking regions. Notable people wit ...

, a Chinese surname often spelled Chia in Taiwan or in the early 20th century * A Spanish variant of the name Lucia

Other uses

Chia (cryptocurrency) Chia is a cryptocurrency where mining (or in chiasphere, farming) is based on the amount of hard disk storage space devoted to it rather than processing power as with Proof of work cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The platform was created by a ...

, a proof-of-space-and-time (Storage provided over amount of time) cryptocurrency *

Chía (goddess) The goddess Chía (from the Chibcha language "the one who is like the moon"), is a triple lunar deity associated with gold, described as a beautiful young woman with white skin and black hair, in the religion of the Muisca who inhabited the Altip ...

, a deity in Muisca mythology *

Chia Pet Chia Pets are American styled terracotta figurines used to sprout chia, where the chia sprouts grow within a couple of weeks to resemble the animal's fur or hair. Moistened chia seeds (''Salvia hispanica'') are applied to a grooved terracotta ...

, American figurines *

ChIA-PET Chromatin Interaction Analysis by Paired-End Tag Sequencing (ChIA-PET or ChIA-PETS) is a technique that incorporates chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-based enrichment, chromatin proximity ligation, Paired-End Tags, and High-throughput sequen ...

, a molecular biological technique * "Chia", a song by Four Tet from the album '' Rounds'' * ''

Chia Black Dragon Chia Black Dragon is the eponymous anti-hero of a dark fantasy series of novels written by Stephen Marley. Chia is identified in the novels as "The most dangerous woman in the history of man". The term "Chinese Gothic" was coined to describe the ...

'', a series of dark fantasy novels by Stephen Marley *

Masala chai Masala chai (, ; Urdu: مصالحہ چائے, Hindi: मसाला चाय) is an Indian tea culture, Indian tea beverage made by boiling black tea in milk and water with a mixture of aromatic herbs and spices. Originating in India the bever ...

, called ''chia'' in Nepal {{disambiguation, geo, plant