Sota

Sota, Soota, Souta or SOTA may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Šota, a Serbian and Albanian dance
• Sota (EP), a 1999 EP by Horna
• Sota (playing card), the equivalent of the Jack or Knave in Spanish-suited playing cards
• Summits On The Air, an awards program for radio amateurs operating from mountainous locations

Fictional characters

• Sota Mizushino (水篠 颯太), from the anime series Re:Creators
• Sota Higurashi (日暮 草太), in the comics Inuyasha
• Souta Munakata (宗像 草太), from the animated film Suzume
• Souta Mogami, from the 2006 Japanese tokusatsu television series GoGo Sentai Boukenger

Organizations

• School of the Arts (Rochester, New York), US
• San Francisco School of the Arts, US
• School of the Arts, Singapore
• SOTA Toys, a US collectibles manufacturer
• Sota.Vision (SOTA), Russian independent news outlet
• Tacoma School of the Arts, Washington, US

Places

• Minnesota (nickname Sota), a US state
• Sota, South Papua, a town in Indonesia

People

• Šóta (1774–1864), Sioux head chief
• Sota Aoyama (青山 草太, born 1989), Japanese actor and vlogger
• Sōta Fujii (藤井 聡太, born 2002), Japanese professional shogi player
• Sota Fukushi (福士 蒼汰, born 1993), Japanese actor
• Sota Hamaguchi (濱口 草太, born 1999), Japanese footballer
• Sota Higashide (東出 壮太, born 1998), Japanese footballer
• Sōta Hirayama (平山 相太, born 1985), Japanese football player
• Sota Kasahara (笠原 宗太, born 1976), Japanese football player
• Sota Kawasaki (川﨑 颯太, born 2001), Japanese footballer
• Sota Kawatsura (川面 聡大, born 1989), Japanese track and field sprinter
• Sota Kiri (桐 蒼太, born 1999), Japanese footballer
• Sota Kitahara (born 2003), American soccer player
• Sota Kitano (北野 颯太, born 2004), Japanese professional footballer
• Sota Miura (三浦 颯太, born 2000), Japanese footballer
• Sōta Murakami (村上 想太, born 1991), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Sota Nakazawa (中澤 聡太, born 1982), Japanese football player
• Sota Okamura (岡村 創太, born 1977), Japanese ski jumper
• Sota Sato (佐藤 颯汰, born 1999), Japanese footballer
• Shōnanzakura Sōta (勝南桜 聡太, born 1998), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Sota Watanabe (渡邊 創太, born 2000), Japanese footballer
• Sōta Yamamoto (山本 草太, born 2000), Japanese figure skater

Other uses

• State of the art, the highest level of something at a particular time
• School of the Air, correspondence schools in Australia originally using pedal radios
• Software Over The Air, also known as over-the-air programming