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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
- 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 (Polish band), a Toruń-based band active through 2003
- Sofa (Thai band), a Thai band active from 2001
- Not to be confused with the band Couch
- "Sofa No.1" and "Sofa No.2" are tracks on the 1975 album One Size Fits All album by Frank Zappa
- 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
- SOFA (power generation) Separated Over-Fire Air, a technology for reducing NOx emissions from power station boiler combustion.