LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. 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

Other media

* l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''

Lá ''Lá'' ( Irish for "Day"; later known as ''Lá Nua'', Irish for "New Day") was an Irish-language daily newspaper based in Belfast. It was the first daily newspaper in Ireland to be published in Irish. ''Lá Nua'' belonged to the Belfast Media ...

'', 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

L.A. Screenings The L.A. Screenings is an international television (TV) market that developed independently. Over the years it was adapted to the needs of the TV industry without the benefit of central organization. Nowadays it attracts some 1,500 top-level TV p ...

, 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 *

Library Association The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, since 2017 branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced ), is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the U ...

, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals * Linux Australia *

Local authority Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-l ...

, a unit of government in the United Kingdom * London Assembly * Loyola Academy, an American college preparatory high school

Language

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through ...

, by ISO 639-1 language code * La (Javanese) (ꦭ), a syllabic in the Javanese abugidic script * la, a definite

article (grammar) An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech. In English, both "the" and "a(n)" ...

form in Romance languages

Places

Europe

* Lancaster, a city in northwest England ** LA postcode area, northwest England (area name derived from city of Lancaster) *

Landeck District The Bezirk Landeck ( it, Distretto di Landeck) is an administrative district ('' Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It borders the district Reutte in the north, the district Imst in the east, South Tyrol (Italy) and Graubünden (Switzerland) in the ...

, Austria (''LA'' on vehicle license plates) * Long Ashton, North Somerset, England

North America

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...

* Los Altos (disambiguation), various places *

Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bord ...

, 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 Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist s ...

(by ISO 3166-1 country code) **

.la .la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos. Although the .la domain is officially assigned to the country of Laos, subdomains have been delegated to some organizations outside Laos. History The LA Names Corporation, b ...

, country-code top level domain for Laos * Las Anod, a city in Khatumo and Somalia *

* La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

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 Linoleic acid (LA) is an organic compound with the formula COOH(CH2)7CH=CHCH2CH=CH(CH2)4CH3. Both alkene groups are ''cis''. It is a fatty acid sometimes denoted 18:2 (n-6) or 18:2 ''cis''-9,12. A linoleate is a salt or ester of this acid. ...

, a fatty acid * Lipoic acid, an organosulfur compound *

Lupus anticoagulant Lupus anticoagulant is an immunoglobulin that binds to phospholipids and proteins associated with the cell membrane. Its name is a partial misnomer, as it is actually a prothrombotic antibody ''in vivo''. Lupus anticoagulant in living systems ca ...

, an autoimmune disorder * Local anesthetic, in medicine

Computing

* Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

Lanthanum Lanthanum is a chemical element with the symbol La and atomic number 57. It is a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air. It is the eponym of the lanthanide series, a group of 15 similar elements between l ...

, symbol La, a chemical element * Laser ablation, a technique of removing material from a surface by irradiating it with a laser beam *

Linear algebra Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as: :a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b, linear maps such as: :(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n, and their representations in vector spaces and through matrice ...

, 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 with the given name, La

* La David Johnson (1992–2017), United States Army Sergeant * LaBradford Smith (born 1969), American basketball player

Vessels of the United States Navy

* ''Los Angeles''-class submarine, a boat class