LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America.

La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
  • "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on Figure 8 (album)
  • L.A. (EP), by Teddy Thompson
  • L.A. (Light Album), a Beach Boys album
  • "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973
  • The La's, an English rock band
  • L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer
  • Yung L.A., a rapper
  • Lady A, an American country music trio
  • "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007
  • "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River
  • La, a Les Gordon album

Other media

  • l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings
  • La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan)
  • Lá, later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper
  • La7, an Italian television channel
  • LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher
  • Liber Annuus, academic journal

Business, organizations, and government agencies

  • Liberal Alliance (Denmark), a Danish liberal party
  • L.A. Screenings, a television market
  • LATAM Chile, formerly LAN Airlines (IATA code)
  • Lavochkin, a Russian design bureau
  • Lawrence Academy at Groton, an American boarding school
  • Lebanese Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon
  • Lee Academy (Maine)<!--From http://web.archive.org/web/20060118023609/http://www.leeacademy.org/ which shows the acronym "LA" -->
  • Library Association, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
  • Linux Australia
  • Local authority, a unit of government in the United Kingdom
  • London Assembly
  • Loyola Academy, an American college preparatory high school

Language

  • Latin, by ISO 639-1 language code
  • La (Javanese) (ꦭ), a syllabic in the Javanese abugidic script
  • la, a form of the definite article in many Romance languages

Places

Europe

  • Lower Austria (abbreviation: LA), a federal state in Austria
  • Lancaster, a city in northwest England
  • LA postcode area, northwest England (area name derived from city of Lancaster)
  • Landeck District, Austria (LA on vehicle license plates)
  • Long Ashton, North Somerset, England

North America

  • Latin America
  • Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • Los Altos (disambiguation), various places
  • Louisiana, a state in the United States (postal abbreviation: LA)
  • Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  • Lower Alabama (South Alabama and Northwest Florida)
  • Lewiston–Auburn, twin cities in the US state of Maine

Elsewhere

  • Los Ángeles (disambiguation), several places in Latin countries
  • Laos (by ISO 3166-1 country code)
  • .la, its top-level domain
  • La district, in Oudomxay Province, Laos
  • Ladakh, a union territory of India (ISO 3166-2 code)
  • Las Anod, a city in Khatumo and Somalia
  • Latin America
  • La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region
  • Lubuk Alung railway station, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology, biochemistry, and medicine

  • La (genus), a genus of moths
  • Lauric acid, a saturated fatty acid
  • Lewis acids and bases, literature abbreviation
  • Linoleic acid, a fatty acid
  • Lipoic acid, an organosulfur compound
  • Lupus anticoagulant, an autoimmune disorder
  • Local anesthetic, in medicine
  • Ludwig's angina, a type of bacterial infection that occurs in the floor of the mouth, under the tongue

Computing

  • Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs
  • LoongArch, a RISC instruction set architecture

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

  • Lanthanum, symbol La, a chemical element
  • Laser ablation, a technique of removing material from a surface by irradiating it with a laser beam
  • Linear algebra, a branch of mathematics

Other uses

  • Landscape architecture, the design of outdoor structures
  • Language arts, an educational subject
  • Legislative assistant, a rôle on a legislator's staff

People

People with the given name, La

  • La David Johnson (1992–2017), United States Army Sergeant
  • LaBradford Smith (born 1969), American basketball player
  • La the Darkman (born 1979), stage name of American a musician and emcee Lason Jackson

People nicknamed La

  • Lasse Andersson, (born 1994), Danish handballer

Vessels of the United States Navy

  • Los Angeles-class submarine, a boat class

See also

  • La La (disambiguation)
  • Los Angeles (disambiguation)