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 The Western Assurance Company was a Canadian insurance company that has operated from 1851 to 2025. Western was one of the country's earliest fire insurance companies and played an important role in the development of the industry in Canada. Hi ...

, 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 World Archery (WA, formerly ''Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc'' (FITA)) is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 national federations and other archery associations, a ...

, 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) is one of the syllables in the Javanese script that represents the sounds /wɔ/, /wa/. It is transliterated to Latin as "wa", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "wo". It has another form (''pasangan''), which is , but represented by a sin ...

(ꦮ), a letter in the Javanese script *

Wa (kana) Wa (hiragana: わ, katakana: ワ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one Mora (linguistics), mora. The combination of a W-column kana letter with in was introduced to represent ain the 19th century and 20th century. It repre ...

, 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 The Wa Self-Administered Division ( ; ) is an autonomous, self-administered division of Myanmar. Its official name was announced by decree on 20 August 2010. Myanmar's government declared the area to be administered by the Wa people, under the ...

, a current administrative division in Myanmar *

Wa State Wa State is a '' de facto'' independent state and self-governing region in Myanmar that has its own political system, administrative divisions and army.29 December 2004佤帮双雄, Phoenix TV. While the Wa State government recognises Myanm ...

, a ''de facto'' independent state in Myanmar

Elsewhere

WA postcode area The WA postcode area, also known as the Warrington postcode area, is a group of sixteen postcode districts in North West England, within nine post towns. These cover north Cheshire (including Warrington, Frodsham, Knutsford, Lymm, Runcorn and W ...

in north west England *

Wa, Ghana Wa is a town and the capital of the Wa Metropolitan Assembly and the Upper West Region of Ghana. It has a population of 200,672 people according to the 2021 census. The town is a transportation hub for the Upper West region, with major roads l ...

, a city in northern Ghana **

Roman Catholic Diocese of Wa The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wa () is a diocese located in the city of Wa in the ecclesiastical province of Tamale in Ghana. History * November 3, 1959: Established as the Diocese of Wa from the Diocese of Tamale Special churches The Cathedra ...

, 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 Abeir-Toril is the fictional planet that makes up the ''Forgotten Realms'' ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings, and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting. ...

of the Forgotten Realms universe * Weimarer Ausgabe, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's works * ''

The Wine Advocate ''The Wine Advocate'', fully known as ''Robert Parker's Wine Advocate'' and informally abbreviated ''TWA'' or ''WA ''or more recently as ''RP'', is a bimonthly wine publication based in the United States featuring the consumer advice of wine cri ...

'', a bimonthly wine publication based in the US

Schools

Westford Academy Westford Academy is the public high school for the town of Westford, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1792 and is one of the oldest public high schools in the United States. History Westford Academy (WA) was founded as a ...

, a public high school in Westford, Massachusetts, United States *

Woodstock Academy Woodstock Academy (WA), founded in 1801, is a high school located in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States. The Academy, which describes itself as an independent school, serves residents from the Connecticut towns of Brooklyn, Canterbury, Eastf ...

, a public high school in Woodstock, Connecticut, United States *

Worcester Academy Worcester Academy is a co-ed private boarding school in Worcester, Massachusetts serving grades 6-12. It is the oldest school founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, and one of the oldest day-boarding schools in the United States. A coeducation ...

, 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) is a Japanese cultural concept usually translated into English as "harmony". It implies a peaceful unity and conformity within a social group in which members prefer the continuation of a harmonious community over their personal interests. The ...

(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