Lima (disambiguation)

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Lima is the capital of Peru. It may also refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Languages and alphabets 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] Places

Paraguay

• Lima District, Paraguay

Peru

• Lima, capital of the country
• Lima Region
• Lima Province
• Lima District, the downtown district of Lima

Portugal

• Lima, a designated wine region in the Vinho Verde region, including the towns of Arcos-de-Valdevez, Ponte de Barca, Viana do Castelo and Ponte de Lima

Sweden

• Lima, Sweden

United States

• Lima, Illinois
• Lima, the original name of Howe, Indiana
• Lima, Montana
• Lima (town), New York
  • Lima (village), New York
• Lima, Ohio
• Lima, Wisconsin

[edit] People

• Lima (surname)
• Lima Ben-Janett, vocalist for house music producer Tom Novy

[edit] Languages and alphabets

"Lima" may mean:

• The letter L in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• "Five" in Malaysian, Indonesian and Tagalog languages
• "File", as in "to sharpen", in Spanish. As slang, it can also be used to refer to sharp characteristics such as the edge of a knife or the sharp summit of a mountain, due to physical resemblance.
• "Slime" in Finnish and Estonian

[edit] Other uses

• Lima bean, a vegetable
• Lima (mythology), a Roman goddess
• Lima (genus), a taxonomic grouping of bivalve molluscs
• Lima Locomotive Works, manufacturer of railroad locomotives from the 1870s to the 1950s
• Lima (models), an Italian brand of model railways, now merged with Hornby Railways
• LIMA (Lembaga Industri Musik Indonesia), an association of record labels and FM radios in Indonesia
• Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica
• Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition, a biennial showcase event in Malaysia
• LIMA (Left Internal Mammarian Artery), The left internal mammarian artery
• Lima Stadium, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• Lima Syndrome, opposite of Stockholm Syndrome

[edit] See also

• Lemur