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), ''Figure 8'' (album) * L.A. (EP), ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * L.A. (Neil Young song), "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), "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River (musician), 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'', 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, 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 definite article (grammar) form in Romance languages

Places

Europe

* 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 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, 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), ''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

Computing

* Load (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, 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