Sofa

Sofa may refer to:

In general:

• A piece of furniture also called a couch
• Sofa slave-soldiers in the Mali Empire and its successor states.
• Russian Hypocoristic for the name Sofiya

In music:

• Any of four bands of overlapping eras:
  • Sofa (Dutch band), a post-indie band active since the late 1990s
  • Sofa (American band), a post-grunge funk band active through the 1990s
  • Sofa (Canadian band), a Montreal-based band that was active from 1993 to 1997
  • Sofa (Thai band), a Thai band active from 2001
    • Not to be confused with the band Couch
• "Sofa #1" and "Sofa #2" are tracks on the 1975 album One Size Fits All album by Frank Zappa

As an abbreviation SOFA:

• SOFA, which stands for Status of Forces Agreement, an agreement between a country and a foreign nation stationing military forces in that country.
• SOFA, an abbreviation for the international expositions of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA NEW YORK & SOFA CHICAGO)
• SOFA, an abbreviation for Soft Out of Focus Area, and alternative to the term Bokeh
• SOFA score, an acronym for Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score
• SOFA district, a neighbourhood in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• SOFA (Simulation Open Framework Architecture), an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time physical simulation
• SOFA component system, an Open Source framework for designing and implementing component-based applications
• SOFA (Astronomy), Standards of Fundamental Astronomy software libraries