Sama

Sama or SAMA may refer to:

Places

• Sama, Burkina Faso, a town in the Kouka Department, Banwa Province, Burkina Faso
• Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China
• Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Sama, Nowshahr, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
• Sama, South Khorasan, a village in Iran
• Sama (Harstad), a part of Harstad city in northern Norway
• Sama District, one of ten districts of Tacna province, Peru
• Sama, Asturias, a parish in the municipality of Langreo in northern Spain
• Sama River, a river in Peru

People

• Sama-Bajau, an ethnic group of the Philippines and Malaysia whose members commonly refer to themselves as Sama
• Sama (surname), a list of people
• Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

Arts and entertainment

• Sama (film), a 1988 Tunisian film directed by Néjia Ben Mabrouk
• Sama (Dragana Mirković album), a 2000 studio album by Serbian singer Dragana Mirković
• Sama (Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen album), jazz album by Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen
• "Sama" (song), the Polish entry in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, performed by Justyna
• Sama, a character of the Mahabharata

Businesses

• Saudi Central Bank, formerly Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority and still using the acronym SAMA, the central bank of Saudi Arabia
• Sama (airline), a defunct Saudi low-cost airline
• Sama (company), an artificial-intelligence company
• Sama Dubai, a property company based in Dubai
• Sama TV, a television station based in Damascus, Syria

Religion

• Sama (Sufism), form of Sufi ritual ceremony
• Sama, the indigenous religion of the Munda people of India
• Sama Veda, Veda of melodies and chants in Hinduism

SAMA

• Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan, a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan
• San Antonio Museum of Art, an art museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Scottish Alternative Music Awards
• Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, former name of the Saudi Central Bank, the central bank of Saudi Arabia which still uses the acronym SAMA
• Short-acting muscarinic antagonist, a group of medicines used in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• South African Medical Association
• South African Music Awards, an annual award ceremony
• South African Musicians' Alliance, an artists' collective that resisted the strictures of apartheid
• South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly, an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface
• South Australian Mining Association, a company that in the late 19th century operated one of the world's largest copper mines
• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, an art museum with four locations in southwestern Pennsylvania, United States
• Student American Medical Association, a precursor of the American Medical Student Association

Other uses

• MS Sama, various motor ships
• Racing de Sama, a Spanish football club based in the parish of Sama, Langreo, Asturias
• Sama Beirut, an upcoming residential, commercial and office tower in the Sodeco region of Beirut, Lebanon
• Sama Tower, a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• -sama (様), a Japanese honorific suffix
• Sama language, the language of the Sama people of Southeast Asia
• Sama language (Angola), a Bantu language of Angola

See also

• Samma tribe, a Rajput tribe in Pakistan and India