Sha or SHA may refer to:

Places

Sha County Shaxian District (), formerly Sha County, is a District of Sanming, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Shaxian District is the hometown of Shaxian delicacies, which are considered part of the food heritage of China. Transportation Shaxi ...

, Fujian, China * Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, ( IATA code) * Sia, Cyprus, also spelled ''Sha'' *

Sagamihara Housing Area Sagamihara Housing Area (known as SHA) is an area of land designated as living space for United States Military personnel and Department of the Army Civilians in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Married American soldiers who are stationed a ...

, an army installation in Japan * Vehicle registration plates in the district Schwäbisch Hall and the town Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

People and language

* Sha (surname) * Sha (singer) (born 1979), German singer * Sha Fei (1912–1950), Chinese photojournalist * Sha language * Sha (Cyrillic) (Ш, ш), a Cyrillic letter

Government and organizations

Maryland State Highway Administration The Maryland State Highway Administration (abbreviated MDOT SHA or simply SHA) is the state transportation business unit responsible for maintaining Maryland's numbered highways outside Baltimore City. Formed originally under authority of the Ge ...

* Strategic health authorities, England * Saskatchewan Hockey Association, now known as Hockey Saskatchewan * Secondary Heads Association, now the Association of School and College Leaders * Society for Historical Archaeology * The Socialist Health Association, a left-wing English medical association affiliated with the Labour Party.

History

* ''

Scriptores Historiae Augustae The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

Science and technology

Secure Hash Algorithms The Secure Hash Algorithms are a family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), including: * SHA-0: A retronym applied t ...

, SHA-0 to SHA-3 * Shorthand abstraction, a term presented in the 2007 book ''

What Is Intelligence? ''What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect'' is a book by psychologist James R. Flynn which outlines his model for an explanation of the eponymous Flynn effect. The book summarizes much of the work of Flynn in this area, as well as that o ...

'' by James R. Flynn *

Sidereal hour angle In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the angle between two planes: one containing Earth's axis and the zenith (the ''meridian plane''), and the other containing Earth's axis and a given point of interest (the '' hour circl ...

, in astronomy * Intel SHA extensions * Measure of material hardness using a Shore A type Shore durometer

Other uses

Sha (animal) In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or ''sha'', is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast. Unlike other to ...