BA or variants may refer to:

  • Bachelor of Arts, an academic degree<!-- common use, at the top-->

Businesses and organizations

  • The New York Stock Exchange abbreviation for Boeing
  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a library and cultural center in Egypt
  • Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland
  • British Academy
  • British Airways, a British airline
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science, now British Science Association
  • Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Federal Employment Agency of Germany
  • Selskap med begrenset ansvar, a type of Norwegian company with limited liability
  • Brewers Association, trade group in the United States

Languages

  • Aka-Bo language, an Indian language, also known as Ba
  • Bashkir language, ISO 639-1 language code ba
  • Ba (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform texts
  • Ba (Indic), in Indic abugidas
  • Ba (Javanese) (ꦧ), in the Javanese script
  • Ba (Mongolic), in alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages
  • Arabic letter <big>ب</big>, named '
  • bǎ construction, in Chinese

People

  • Ba (given name), in Myanmar and ancient China
  • Ba (surname), a West African surname
  • Ba (pharaoh), an early Egyptian or ancient Egyptian king

Places

The Americas

  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • The Bahamas, WMO country code

Asia

  • Ba (state), an ancient state in eastern Sichuan, China
  • Ba River (China)
  • Ba, Tha Tum District, Thailand
  • Ba River (Vietnam)
  • Bandra railway station, Indian Railways code BA
  • Ba'a, Rote, Indonesia
  • Bahrain, obsolete NATO, FIPS and LOC MARC country code
  • Banan District, Chongqing, China, formerly Ba County
  • Bazhou, Hebei, China, formerly Ba County

Europe

  • BA postcode area, Bath, England
  • Ba (Ljig), Serbia
  • Ba Congress, 1944
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, ISO-3166 country code BA
  • .ba, the top-level domain for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Oceania

  • Ba Province, Fiji
  • Ba (town)
  • Ba District, Fiji
  • Ba River (Fiji)
  • Ba (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Science and technology

  • Ba (genus), land snails
  • ba space, in mathematics
  • Barium, chemical symbol Ba
  • Barye, a measurement unit of pressure
  • 6-Benzylaminopurine, plant hormone
  • BA, sublineages of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
  • British Association screw threads, a set of small screw threads
  • Ba, the Chinese name of the star Epsilon Serpentis
  • Bronze Age, an archaeological period

Sport

  • Ba F.C., a Fijian football club
  • Ba game, a version of medieval football played in Scotland
  • Basketball Australia, promoting basketball in Australia
  • Batting average, a statistic in cricket and baseball
  • Bowls Australia, a governing body
  • Kirkwall Ba Game, or The Ba', annual event in Orkney, Scotland

Transportation

  • Ford Falcon (BA), an Australian car
  • NZR B<sup>A</sup> class, a New Zealand steam locomotive classification
  • West Sumatra (vehicle registration prefix BA)

Other uses

  • BA, dominical letter for a leap year starting on Saturday
  • Ba (soul), an Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul or spirit
  • Ba. (band), a Lithuanian rock band
  • "B.A." Baracus, a fictional character in TV series The A-Team
  • Beerenauslese, or BA, a German late-harvest wine
  • Business agent (labor), a position in some local trade unions
  • Business analyst, one who processes, interprets and documents business processes
  • Blue Archive, a game developed by NEXON

See also

  • Ba River (disambiguation)
  • BAA (disambiguation)
  • Bah humbug (disambiguation)
  • Loch Bà (disambiguation)
  • Ya ba, drug containing methamphetamine and caffeine
  • Boston and Albany Railroad, reporting mark B&A