Wa or WA may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

KLM Cityhopper KLM Cityhopper is the regional airline subsidiary of KLM, headquartered in Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, Netherlands. It is based at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. As a subsidiary of Air France–KLM, it is an affiliate of SkyTeam. The airli ...

(IATA airline designator WA) * Weerbaarheidsafdeling, a paramilitary force associated with the Dutch National Socialist Movement *

Western Airlines Western Airlines was a major airline in the United States based in California, operating in the Western United States including Alaska and Hawaii, and western Canada, as well as to New York City, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami and to Mex ...

(IATA airline designator WA) (defunct) * Western Arms, a Japan-based airsoft manufacturer * Western Assurance Company, operating as WA, a Canadian insurance company *

World Aquatics World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA (; ), is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administering international competitions in List of water sports, water sports. It is one of several interna ...

, the international governing body of water sports * World Archery, the international governing body of the sport of archery *

World Athletics World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international sports governing body, governing body for the sport ...

, the international governing body for the sport of athletics

Language

* Wa (Javanese) (ꦮ), a letter in the Javanese script * Wa (kana), romanisation of the Japanese kana わ and ワ *

Wa language Wa (Va) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Wa people of Myanmar and China. There are three distinct varieties, sometimes considered separate languages; their names in ''Ethnologue'' are Parauk, the majority and standard form; Vo ( Zhen ...

, a group of languages spoken by the Wa people *

Walloon language Walloon (; natively ; ) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, United States ...

(ISO 639 language code ''wa'')

Places

Asia

Wa (Japan) Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people. From Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used t ...

(和), an old Chinese name for Japan * Wa Land, the natural and historical region inhabited mainly by the Wa people in Myanmar and China * Wa Self-Administered Division, a current administrative division in Myanmar * Wa State, a ''de facto'' independent state in Myanmar

Elsewhere

* WA postcode area in north west England * Wa, Ghana, a city in northern Ghana ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Wa, Ghana *

Washington (state) Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the national capital, both n ...

, US, postal abbreviation * State of

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

Print media

* Wa, a fictional country in Kara-Tur of the Forgotten Realms universe * Weimarer Ausgabe, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's works * '' The Wine Advocate'', a bimonthly wine publication based in the US

Schools

* Westford Academy, a public high school in Westford, Massachusetts, United States * Woodstock Academy, a public high school in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States * Worcester Academy, a private high school in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Technology

* ''wa'' (watercraft), outrigger proa of the Caroline Islands *

Write amplification Write amplification (WA) is an undesirable phenomenon associated with flash memory and solid-state drives (SSDs) where the actual amount of information physically written to the storage media is a multiple of the logical amount intended to be wr ...

Other uses

Nüwa Nüwa, also read Nügua, is a mother goddess, culture hero, and/or member of the Three Sovereigns of Chinese mythology. She is a goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. She is credited with creating humani ...

or Wa, a Chinese goddess (媧) * Wa (Japanese culture) (和), a Japanese social construct * , pronounced ''wa'', used in conversation to mark a change in topic *

Wa (unit) Wa ( , also ''waa'' or ''wah'', abbreviated ) is a unit of length, equal to two metres (2 m) or four :th:ศอก (หน่วยความยาวไทย), sok (.) ''Wa'' as a verb means to outstretch (one's) arms to both sides, which relate ...

, a Thai unit of measurement *

Wa people The Wa people ( Wa: Vāx; , ; ; ''Wáa'') are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in Northern Myanmar, in the northern part of Shan State and the eastern part of Kachin State, near and along Myanmar's border with China, as well as ...

(佤), an ethnic group in China and Myanmar * Wing attack, one of the positions in netball * MG WA, a sporting saloon * White Album (video game), video game {{Disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages