Sima or SIMA may refer to:

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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, 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, Jinxiang County, town in

Jinxiang County Jinxiang County () is a county of southwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China, bordering Jiangsu province to the southeast. It is under the administration of Jining Jining () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong ...

, Shandong, China * Sima, Nepal, 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 *Banb ...

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

sinkhole A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are locally also known as ''vrtače'' and shakeholes, and to openi ...

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 Sima or SIMA may refer to: People * Sima (Chinese surname) * Sima (given name), a Persian feminine name in use in Iran and Turkey * Sima (surname) Places * Sima, Comoros, on the island of Anjouan, near Madagascar * Sima de los Huesos, a cav ...

, a shipbuilding and maritime services company in Peru *

Sima (geology) In geology, sima () is an antiquated blended term for the lower layer of Earth's crust. This layer is made of rocks rich in magnesium silicate minerals. Typically, when the sima comes to the surface, it is basalt, so sometimes this layer is cal ...

, 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) Sima is a Finnish fermented low level alcoholic drink and soft drink. It is traditionally a form of mead, an alcoholic beverage produced by fermenting a solution of honey and water, although nowadays the honey is usually replaced with diffe ...

, 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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