The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a 2001 handheld video game system developed by Nintendo.

GBA may also refer to:

Science and technology

  • Generalized Büchi automaton, in automata theory, a variant of Büchi automaton
  • Generic Bootstrapping Architecture, a cryptographic technology that enables the authentication of a user
  • Glucocerebrosidase, a human enzyme
  • GBA2, a gene which encodes for cytosolic beta-glucosidase
  • GBA3, a gene which encodes for cytosolic beta-glucosidase
  • Gut–brain axis, biochemical signaling between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system

Organizations

  • Federal Joint Committee (Germany) (, G-BA)]], a public health decision-making body in Germany
  • , the geological survey of Austria
  • Ghana Bar Association, a professional association in Ghana
  • Giving Back to Africa, a Bloomington, Indiana non-profit organization
  • Global Banking Alliance for Women, a non-profit organization concentrating on women's wealth
  • Global Biofuel Alliance, an international organization for regulation, research and promotion for biofuel
  • Golaghat Bar Association, a voluntary bar association in India
  • Governing Bodies Association, an organisation of governing bodies of independent schools in the UK
  • Greater Bengaluru Authority, an apex coordinating body for municipal corporations of the Indian city of Bengaluru
  • Gute Bücher für Alle, a German charity which operates floating bookshops
  • Public Prosecutor General (Germany) (, GBA)

Companies

  • Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
  • Gramin Bank of Aryavart, a Regional Rural Bank in Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Greater Bay Airlines, a low-cost carrier based in Hong Kong, China
  • Greenbrier Academy for Girls, a therapeutic college preparatory boarding school in Pence Springs, West Virginia
  • Groen Brothers Aviation, now Skyworks Global, an American autogyro research and development company
  • KGBA (AM), a radio station (1490 AM) in Calexico, California, United States
  • KGBA-FM, a radio station (100.1 FM) in Holtville, California, United States
  • WGBA-TV, a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin

People

  • G. B. A. Coker, a former Judge of the Nigerian Supreme Court

Geography

  • Alderney, international vehicle country code (Great Britain: Alderney)
  • Greater Buenos Aires, the urban agglomeration comprising the autonomous city of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 partidos
  • Cotswold Airport in the United Kingdom, IATA airport code
  • Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, often simply referred to as the Greater Bay Area
  • Guangzhou Baiyun railway station, China, station code

Music

  • "G.B.A.", a song on Solace (Xavier Rudd album)
  • God Bless America, American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin

Sports

  • Geelong Baseball Association, an Australian baseball association and league
  • Global Basketball Association, minor league in the United States in the early 1990s
  • Guam Basketball Association, Guam's professional basketball league

Process

  • Gender-based Analysis, a management process to explore the changing realities and inequalities based on gender

Other uses

  • Game Boy Advance SP, a redesign of the Game Boy Advance, released in 2003
  • Golden Bell Awards, an annual award ceremony for television and broadcast in Taiwan