LA most frequently refers to

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of 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) A is a musical note equivalent to 440 Hz in typical A440 tuning. It is the sixth note of La and the tenth semitone of the fixed-do solfège. Its enharmonic equivalents are B (B double-flat) and G (G double-sharp). "A" is generally used a ...

, 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) ''L.A. (Light Album)'' is the 23rd studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on March 16, 1979, and their first issued through Sony Music, CBS Records. Recorded during a period of acrimony between the band members, it was a ...

'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 *

The La's The La's were an English rock band from Liverpool, originally active from 1983 until 1992. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers, the group are best known for their hit single " There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike ...

, an English rock band *

L.A. Reid Antonio Marquis "L.A." Reid (born June 7, 1956) is an American record executive, A&R representative, and record producer who served as president and CEO of Arista Records from 2000 to 2004, as well as chairman and CEO of the Island Def Jam Mus ...

, a prominent music producer *

Yung L.A. Leland Sanford Austin (born March 26, 1986), better known by his stage name Yung L.A. or Da Boi Lay, is an American rapper. He is perhaps best known for his debut single "Ain't I", which peaked at number 47 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart ...

, a rapper *

Lady A Lady A, known until 2020 as Lady Antebellum, is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2006. The group is composed of Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals), Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals, guitar ...

, 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) La is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city in the jungles of Africa. Opar is portrayed as a surviving colony of ancient Atlantis in which incredible riches have been st ...

, 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 La7 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned by Cairo Communication. Cairo Communication acquired it from Telecom Italia Media, itself owned by Telecom Italia, in 2013. La7 features a generalist programming schedule, primarily ...

, an Italian television channel *

LucasArts Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game brand licensing, licensor, former video game developer and video game publisher, publisher, and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. It was founded in May 1982 by George ...

, an American video game developer and publisher *

Liber Annuus ''Liber Annuus'' is a yearly academic journal of theology and Biblical archaeology published by Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem. The first issue appeared in 1951. One of its founders was the Italian archaeologist, Franciscan Bellarmin ...

, academic journal

Business, organizations, and government agencies

Liberal Alliance (Denmark) The Liberal Alliance (LA; ) is a classical liberal and right-libertarian political party in Denmark. The party is a component of the centre-right bloc in Danish politics. The party's platform is based upon economic liberalism, promotion of ...

, 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 Armed Forces, Lebanese Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon *Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Library Association, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals *Linux Australia *Local government#United Kingdom, 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, Lancashire, 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 *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), ''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 (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 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, ''Los Angeles''-class submarine, a boat class