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Sima (Chinese surname) Sima (, ) is a Chinese family name. It is one of the rare two-character Chinese family names; most Chinese family names consist of only a single character. It is an occupational surname, literally meaning "control" (sī) "horses" (mǎ); in a simil ...

Sima (given name) Sima is a feminine given name that is used in different countries. In Iran (Persian: سيما) and Turkey it is a feminine name. It literally means ''face'' (and a beautiful face by implication). In India, it is usually transcribed “Seema” a ...

, a Persian feminine name in use in Iran and Turkey *

Sima (surname) Sima is a surname. People with the name include: Chinese surnames European surnames * Gabriela Sima (1955–2016), Austrian opera singer * Hans Sima (1918–2006), Austrian politician * Jonas Sima (born 1937), Swedish filmmaker, journalist, ...

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Sima, Comoros Sima is a town located on the island of Anjouan in the Comoros The Comoros,, ' officially the Union of the Comoros,; ar, الاتحاد القمري ' is an independent country made up of three islands in southeastern Africa, located at t ...

, on the island of Anjouan, near Madagascar * Sima de los Huesos, a cavern in Spain, major site of ancient hominin fossils, known as ''Sima hominins'' *

Sima, Hungary Sima is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Ro ...

* Sima, Jinxiang County, town in Jinxiang County, Shandong, China *

Sima, Nepal Sima is a former village development committee in Jajarkot District in the Karnali Province of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics ...

, in the Jajarkot District of Nepal *

Sima (river) The Sima is a river in the municipality of Eidfjord in Hordaland, Norway. The river is long, and it has a drainage basin of and an average discharge of . The river has its source on the west side of the Hardanger Glacier, at a proglacial lake ...

, a river Hordaland, Norway *

Sima, Tibet This is an alphabetical list of all populated places, including cities, towns and villages, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of western China. A *Alamdo *Alhar *Arza *Asog B * Baga *Bagar * Baidi *Baima *Baimai *Baixoi *Bamda *Banag *Banba ...

, village in the north of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China * Sima, Spanish for sinkhole or

pit cave A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in South Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric ...

, found in several placenames **

Sima de las Cotorras Sima de las Cotorras (in English: Sinkhole of the Parrots/Parakeets) is a sinkhole located in the El Ocote Biosphere Reserve in western Chiapas, southern Mexico. It is one of a number of sinkholes in the area, all produced by tectonic and erosive ...

, Chiapas, Mexico

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Independent Union of Maritime and Related Workers The Independent Union of Maritime and Related Workers (SIMA) is a small, independent trade union centre of Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital ...

(SIMA), in Angola *

Sima (architecture) In classical architecture, a sima is the upturned edge of a roof which acts as a gutter. The term "sima" comes from the Greek '' simos'', meaning bent upwards. Form The sima runs around all four sides of a building. It may be made of terracotta ...

, the upturned edge of a classical roof * SIMA, a shipbuilding and maritime services company in Peru * Sima (geology), the lower part of Earth's crust *

Sima Hydroelectric Power Station The Sima Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in the municipality Eidfjord in Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of B ...

, Eidfjord, Vestland, Norway * Sima (mead), a mead from Finland *

Sima (office) Sima is an official post from ancient China that first appears in texts dating from the Western Zhou dynasty and continued to be used during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period. Translated literally, it means "administrator of t ...

, the Chinese title roughly equivalent to "field marshal" * ''Sima'' or '' bai sema'', the ritual boundary around a Buddhist ordination hall *

Sima (Swahili food) Ugali or Posho or sima (for others, see ) is a type of maize meal made from maize or corn flour in several countries in Africa. Sima is sometimes made from other flours, such as millet or sorghum flour, and is sometimes mixed with cassava flour. ...

, a dumpling made from corn meal, banana, semolina or cassava flour, also called Ugali

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