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Places

Mountains and mountain ranges

* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range in Andalusia, Spain * Sierra Madre (disambiguation), various mountain ranges ** Sierra Madre (Philippines), a mountain range in the east of Luzon, Philippines * Sierra mountains (disambiguation) * Sierra Nevada, a mountain range in the U.S. states of California and Nevada * Sierra Nevada (Spain), a mountain range in Andalusia, Spain * Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra Maestra, a mountain range in Cuba

Other places

Africa

* Sierra Leone, a country located on the coast of West Africa

Asia

* Sierra Bullones, Bohol, Philippines

Europe

* Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain), Andalusia, Spain * Sierra Nevada Observatory, Granada, Spain

North America

* High Sierra Trail, California, United States * Sierra County, California * Sierra County, New Mexico * Sierra Foothills AVA, an American Viticultural Area in California * Sierra National Forest, California, United States * Sierra Sky Park Airport, Fresno, California * Sierra Valley, in Plumas and Sierra counties, California

South America

* Sierra (Ecuador), the mountain region of Ecuador * Sierra (Peru), the mountain region of Peru * Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a national park in northern Colombia * Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela), a national park in the Andean Region of Venezuela

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Sierra (Dollhouse), Sierra (''Dollhouse''), a character in Joss Whedon's TV series ''Dollhouse'' * Sierra, a List of The Land Before Time characters#Rinkus and Sierra, character in ''The Land Before Time VII'' * Sierra Obenauer, a character from the Canadian animated TV series ''Total Drama'' * Sierra Burgess, the titular character in the Netflix movie ''Sierra Burgess Is a Loser'' * Sierra McCoy, a character of Josie in the TV series ''Riverdale (2017 TV series), Riverdale''

Music

* Sierra (group), American musical artists * Sierra (metal band), Canadian progressive rock band * Sierra (song), "Sierra" (song), a song by Maddie & Tae * "Sierra", a song by Cursive from the 2003 album ''The Ugly Organ'' * "Sierra", a song by Boz Scaggs on 1994's ''Some Change''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Sierra (film), ''Sierra'' (film), a 1950 Western starring Audie Murphy * Sierra (magazine), ''Sierra'' (magazine), published by the Sierra Club * Sierra (TV series), ''Sierra'' (TV series), a 1974–1975 NBC television show produced by Universal Studios * Sierra Entertainment, a defunct developer and publisher of video games

Computing

* Sierra (supercomputer), or ATS-2, a supercomputer for nuclear weapon simulations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Sierra, a library management system developed by Innovative Interfaces * macOS Sierra, the thirteenth major release of the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., formerly known as Mac OS X and OS X

Organizations

* Sierra Club, an environmental organization in the United States * Sierra Club Canada, an environmental organization in Canada * Sierra College, a community college located in Rocklin, California

Transportation

* Acme Sierra, an American experimental aircraft built in 1948 * Advanced Aeromarine Sierra, a glider * Ford Sierra, a car produced by the Ford Motor Company * GMC Sierra, various trucks and SUVs produced by General Motors * , a ship class of the Mexican Navy * , a Russian attack nuclear submarine * , the name of more than one United States Navy ship * , a United States Navy attack cargo ship named SS ''Sierra'' from 1947 to 1961 while in commercial service

Other uses

* Sierra (name) * Sierra (retailer), an off-price retailer formerly known as Sierra Trading Post * Pacific sierra or Mexican sierra (species ''Scomberomorus sierra''), a Spanish mackerel fish * PMC-Sierra, a semiconductor company * Sierra, the NATO phonetic alphabet designation for the letter S