Sima

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Sima or SIMA may refer to:

People

• Sima (given name), a feminine name in use in Arabic countries, Persia (Iran) and Israel

Chinese family names

• Sima (Chinese surname), for people with this Chinese name

Iranian first names

• Sima Bina (born 1944), Persian musician

Slavic last names

• Gabriela Sima (1955–2016), Austrian opera singer
• Hans Sima (1918–2006), Austrian politician
• Jonas Sima (born 1937), Swedish filmmaker, journalist, writer and educator
• Josef Šíma (1891–1971), Czech painter
• Oskar Sima (1896–1969), Austrian actor
• Horia Sima (1907–1993), Romanian fascist politician
• Michel Sima (1912–1987), photographer and sculptor

Places

• Sima, Comoros, on the island of Anjouan, near Madagascar
• Sima, Nepal, in the Jajarkot District of Nepal
• Sima, Jinxiang County, town in Jinxiang County, Shandong, PR China
• Sima, Tibet, village in the north of the Tibet Autonomous Region, PR China
• Sima de los Huesos, a cavern in Spain, major site of ancient hominin fossils, known as «Sima hominins»

Other

• SIMA, a shipbuilding and maritime services company in Peru
• Sima, Hungary
• Sima (office), the Chinese title roughly equivalent to "field marshal"
• Sima (geology), the lower part of the Earth's crust
• Sima (architecture), the upturned edge of a classical roof
• Sima (mead), a mead from Finland
• Independent Union of Maritime and Related Workers (SIMA), in Angola
• Sima Hydroelectric Power Station, Eidfjord, Hordaland, Norway

See also

• Seema (disambiguation)
• Shiba (disambiguation), Japanese pronunciation of family name Sima