NPA may refer to:

Organizations and companies

Companies

  • National Prescription Administrators, a former pharmaceutical company in the United States
  • Network Printing Alliance, a group of printer manufacturers
  • Northern Pacific Airways, a US low-cost airline

Associations

  • National Parks Association (disambiguation)
  • National Pasta Association, an association for the United States pasta industry
  • National Pawnbrokers Association, an American-based trade association
  • National Pharmacy Association, a trade association in the UK
  • National Ploughing Association, organises the National Ploughing Championships in Ireland
  • National Postdoctoral Association, an organization for postdoctoral researchers in the United States
  • Network Professional Association, an advocate for the international network computing professional in the United States

Other organizations

  • National People's Action, a community organizing network in the United States
  • National Physicians Alliance, a multi-specialty medical organization in the United States
  • Norwegian People's Aid, a non-governmental labour and humanitarian organization in Norway

Government and politics

  • National Pacification Army, Chinese anti-Kuomintang warlord army formed in 1926
  • National park authority, a term used in the United Kingdom for the legal body in charge of a national park
  • National Party of Australia, an Australian political party
  • National People's Ambassadors, a South African political party
  • National People's Army, the armed forces of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)
  • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Indian national institute for training of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers
  • National Police Agency (disambiguation)
  • National Port Authority, Liberia
  • National Production Authority, a former agency of the United States government for defense mobilization from 1950 to 1953
  • National Prosecuting Authority, a governing body of the Republic of South Africa
  • New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), a far-left French political party
  • New People's Army, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines
  • Nigerian Ports Authority, a government agency that governs and operates the ports of Nigeria
  • No party affiliation (disambiguation), a voter or politician who is not affiliated with any political party
  • Non-Party Affiliate, a politician who is not affiliated with any political party
  • Non-Partisan Association, a civic political party in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Note Printing Australia, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Transnet National Ports Authority of South Africa
  • NPA Satellite Mapping, a UK remote sensing company

Law

  • Non-Prosecution Agreement, a way to avoid prosecution (similar to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement)

Science and medicine

  • N-Propyl-L-arginine, a chemical substance
  • Nitropropionic acid
  • 1-N-Naphthylphthalamic acid, an auxin plant hormone transport inhibitor
  • Nanopascal (nPa), a unit of pressure
  • Nasopharyngeal airway, a tube that is designed to be inserted into the nasal passageway
  • Niemann–Pick disease type A, a genetic disorder

Miscellaneous

  • Naval Air Station Pensacola (airport code), Pensacola, Florida, United States
  • .NET Persistence API, also known as NPersistence
  • Non-performing asset, banking term for loans in jeopardy of default, ones that have not paid principal or interest for 90+ days
  • Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy, a high school in Arcata, California, United States
  • Northland Preparatory Academy, a middle and high school in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
  • Numbering Plan Area, a geographic area assigned a three-digit area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
  • Neutral Paralympic Athletes; see Neutral Paralympic Athletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics and Neutral Paralympic Athletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

See also