The hill Shim was located in the land northward. Hugh Nibley taught that Shim means north or the land northward (Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Lecture 104, p. 192). It was in the area the Nephites referred to as Desolation, or the area that the Jaredites had inhabited (Alma 22:30). Although the hill Shim and the hill Cumorah are not the same, Moroni tells us that these two famous hills were not too far apart, wherefore Omer departed out of the land with his family, and traveled many days, and came over and passed by the hill of Shim, and came over by the place where the Nephites were destroyed (Ether 9:3).