VA, Va and variants may refer to:

Places

  • Vä, Sweden, a village
  • Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA)
  • Virginia, United States postal abbreviation

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

  • VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems") a company that eventually became Geeknet
  • VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
  • Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
  • Virgin Australia (IATA code since 2011)
  • V Australia (IATA code 2009–2011)
  • Viasa (IATA code 1960–1997)

Organizations

  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a department of the US government
  • VA (Public & Science), Swedish scientific organisation
  • Vermont Academy, boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
  • VA, post nominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
  • VA, nickname for the French association football club Valenciennes FC
  • Virtual airline (hobby), flight simulation hobby organization
  • Voluntary aided school, type of state-funded school in England and Wales
  • Visual Arts (company), Japanese publishing company

Media and entertainment

  • Va (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie
  • Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
  • Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
  • Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
  • Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
  • Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate analog synthesizers
  • Visual arts
  • Voice actor, actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

  • Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug
  • Vascular anomaly, in medicine
  • Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
  • Ventricular arrhythmia
  • Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception

Computing and systems

  • .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City
  • Validation Authority, in public key infrastructure
  • Virtual address, a computer memory location in virtual address space
  • Vertical alignment, a technology used in a modern liquid-crystal display
  • Visual analytics, business intelligence visualization tools
  • Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system

Mathematics and physics

  • Vertex algebra
  • Vertical asymptote, in mathematics
  • Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, equivalent to the watt
  • Vertical angle

Electronics

  • VA (voltage), a positive supply voltage

Space and aviation

  • V<sub>A</sub>, the design maneuvering speed of an aircraft
  • Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle

Other uses

  • Various Artists, used in the description of a music album which contains tracks that have been compiled from several different artists
  • Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
  • Value added, in economics
  • Variable annuity, a financial instrument
  • Vice admiral, a military rank
  • Virtual assistant, an independent contractor providing assistance to clients via the internet
  • Volatile acidity or vinegar taint, high acetic acidity in wine
  • Amateur radio callsign prefix for Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"
  • Vá (footballer), Angolan footballer
  • MG VA, a car manufactured by MG