GLA or Gla may refer to:

Entertainment

  • GLA (album), by Scottish alternative rock band Twin Atlantic
  • Great Lakes Avengers, a fictional comic hero group

Organisations

  • Gangmasters Licensing Authority, a British regulatory body
  • General lighthouse authority, provides navigational aids in Britain and Ireland
  • Georgia Library Association, United States
  • Ghana Library Association
  • GlassBridge Enterprises, where GLA was its former NYSE ticker symbol
  • God Light Association, a Japanese new religion founded by Shinji Takahashi
  • Great Lakes Airlines, an American airline
  • Greater London Authority
  • Guam Library Association

Science and technology

  • Alpha-galactosidase, a glycoside hydrolase enzyme
  • GLA (gene), an encoding of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A
  • Gla domain, a protein domain
  • Gamma-Linolenic acid, a fatty acid
  • Linde–Buzo–Gray algorithm (also called Generalized Lloyd Algorithm), a vector quantization algorithm

Other uses

  • Gla, a Mycenaean fortification in Greece
  • GLA (LGBT), meaning gay and lesbian alliance
  • Gross leasable area, in real estate, the total floorspace of a property
  • GLA University, in Mathura Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Glamorgan, historic county in Wales, Chapman code
  • Glasgow Airport, IATA call-sign
  • Global Leadership Adventures, an international high school study abroad program
  • Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class, a car
  • Scottish Gaelic, ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language codes