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) A or La is the sixth Musical note, note and the tenth semitone of the Solfège#Fixed do solfège, fixed-do solfège. Its enharmonic equivalents are B (B double flat) which is a diatonic semitone above A and G (G double sharp) which is a diatoni ...

, 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 CBS Records. Recorded during a period of acrimony between the band members, it was a critical an ...

'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, 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. He is the founder and served as co-chairman of Hitco Entertainment. He also previously served as the chairman and CEO of Ep ...

, 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 "l(a" is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is the first poem in his 1958 collection '' 95 Poems''. "l(a" is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters. When the text is laid out horizontally, it either reads as ''l(a leaf falls)oneliness'' ...

, 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 s ...

, 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 Gr ...

'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, 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 Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and c ...

, 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 ) , founded = 1 August 1945 , current_form = 1991 , disbanded = , branches = Lebanese Ground ForcesLebanese Air Force Lebanese Navy , headquarters = Yarze, Lebanon , flying_hours = , websit ...

, 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 management, knowle ...

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

Linux Australia Linux Australia is the national, Australian Free and Open Source Software Community organisation. It was founded in 1997 and formally incorporated in New South Wales as a non-profit organisation in 1999. Linux Australia aims to represent Australian ...

* Local authority, a unit of government in the United Kingdom *

London Assembly The London Assembly is a 25-member elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds super-majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget and to reject ...

Loyola Academy Loyola Academy is a private, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory high school run by the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago ...

, an American college preparatory high school

Language

* Latin, by ISO 639-1 language code *

La (Javanese) is one of syllable in Javanese script that represent the sound /lɔ/, /la/. It is transliterated to Latin as "la", and sometimes in Indonesian orthography as "lo". It has two other forms (''pasangan''), which are and (if followed by 'ꦸ' and ...

(ꦭ), a syllabic in the Javanese abugidic script * la, a definite article (grammar) form in Romance languages

Places

Europe

* Lancaster, a city in northwest England **

LA postcode area The LA postcode area, also known as the Lancaster postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 23 postcode districts in north-west England, within 17 post towns. These cover north Lancashire (including Lancaster, ...

, northwest England (area name derived from city of Lancaster) * Landeck District, Austria (''LA'' on vehicle license plates) *

Long Ashton Long Ashton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset and is one of a number of large villages just outside the boundary of city of Bristol urban area. The parish has a population ...

, North Somerset, England

North America

* Latin America *

Los Altos (disambiguation) Los Altos (Spanish, "the heights", "the highlands", "the tall nes) is the name of several places, including: * the former state of Los Altos, Central America, now divided between Guatemala and Mexico. * the city of Los Altos, California, in the Uni ...

, various places * Louisiana, a state in the United States (postal abbreviation: LA) *

Lethbridge Lethbridge ( ) is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. With a population of 101,482 in its 2019 Alberta municipal censuses, 2019 municipal census, Lethbridge became the fourth Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people. The nearby Canadian ...

, Alberta, Canada *

Lower Alabama Lower Alabama is the parts of southern Alabama including the Florida-border counties from Escambia County over to Houston County. Because there is no formally defined border, there are three overlapping areas generally referred to as Lower Alabam ...

(South Alabama and Northwest Florida) *

Lewiston–Auburn Lewiston–Auburn (L–A) are twin cities in Androscoggin County, Maine, USA. Together, they have a population of 61,182 in a combined . The cities are commonly called "Cities of the Androscoggin," as they are seated along the banks of the Andro ...

, 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 ...

(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 * Latin America * 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 A Lewis acid (named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis) is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct. A Lewis base, then, is any sp ...

, literature abbreviation * Linoleic acid, a fatty acid *

Lipoic acid Lipoic acid (LA), also known as α-lipoic acid, alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) and thioctic acid, is an organosulfur compound derived from caprylic acid (octanoic acid). ALA is made in animals normally, and is essential for aerobic metabolism. It is a ...

, 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 cause ...

, 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, symbol La, a chemical element *

Laser ablation Laser ablation or photoablation (also called laser blasting) is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser ...

, 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 Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

, the design of outdoor structures * Language arts, an educational subject *

Legislative assistant A legislative assistant (LA) or legislative analyst is a person who works for a legislator as a legislative staffer, a government agency as a legislative affairs professional, or in the government relations and regulatory affairs industry by monitor ...

, a rôle on a legislator's staff

People with the given name, La

La David Johnson The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and US soldiers outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returni ...

(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