Saa or SAA may refer to:

Languages

Saa language Sa or Saa language is an Austronesian language spoken in southern Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. It had an estimated 2,500 speakers in the year 2000. Dialects and range Sa has numerous dialects, with no well-established names or boundaries. At a m ...

, a language of Vanuatu *

Saba language Saba is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad. Speakers are found in Sorki canton in Chinguil Chinguil is a sub-prefecture of Guéra Region in Chad. Demographics Ethnic composition by canton in 2016:Oxfam Oxfam is a ...

of Chad (ISO 639 code: saa)

Law

Space Act Agreement Space Act Agreements (abbreviated SAA) are a type of legal agreement specified in the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (and subsequent congressional authorizations) that uniquely empowers the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

, a type of legal agreement with NASA *

Stabilisation and Association Process In talks with countries that have expressed a wish to join the European Union, the EU typically concludes Association Agreements in exchange for commitments to political, economic, trade, or human rights reform in that country. In exchange, th ...

, for countries seeking to join the European Union * Swiss Abroad Act (Switzerland)

Organizations

Armed forces

Anbar Salvation Council Anbar Salvation Council ( ar, مجلس إنقاذ الأنبار ) is a collection of tribal militias in the Al Anbar province of Iraq, formed by former Ba'athists and nationalists to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq and other associated terrorist groups. ...

, a collection of tribal militias in the Al Anbar province of Iraq *

South African Army The South African Army is the principal land warfare force of South Africa, a part of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), along with the South African Air Force, South African Navy and South African Military Health Service. ...

Syrian Arab Army The Syrian Army, officially the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) ( ar, الْجَيْشُ الْعَرَبيُّ السُّورِيُّ, al-Jayš al-ʿArabī as-Sūrī), is the army, land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces. It is the dominant military ...

, the land force branch of the

Syrian Armed Forces The Syrian Arab Armed Forces ( ar, الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ السُّورِيَّةُ, al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah) are the military forces of the Syrian Arab Re ...

Companies

Saudi Arabian Airlines Saudia ( ar, السعودية '), formerly known as Saudi Arabian Airlines (), is the flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah. The airline's main operational base is at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. King Khalid Internati ...

, now known as Saudia *

Shanghai Airport Authority Shanghai Airport Authority (SAA) is a state-owned enterprise of the Shanghai Municipal Government and operates both Pudong (PVD) and Hongqiao (SHA) airports in Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the f ...

South African Airways South African Airways (SAA) is the flag carrier airline of South Africa. Founded in 1934, the airline is headquartered in Airways Park at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and operated a hub-and-spoke network, serving ten destin ...

Professional and trade associations

Society for American Archaeology The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is a professional association for the archaeology of the Americas. It was founded in 1934 and its headquarters are in based in Washington, D.C. , it has 7,500 members. Its current president is Deborah L. ...

Society of American Archivists The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members. Established in 1936, the organi ...

Stock Artists Alliance Founded in 2001, the Stock Artists Alliance was an international trade association of photographers who produce images for stock photography. The mission of SAA was to support and protect the business interests of professional stock photographers wi ...

, a trade association of photographers *

Sub-Aqua Association The Sub-Aqua Association or SAA is a diver training organization for scubadivers in the United Kingdom. The SAA and other UK-based diving groups have traditionally used a club-based system with unpaid instructors, while other training agencies ...

, a diver training organization in the UK

Schools

Sainte Agathe Academy Sainte Agathe Academy (SAA; french: Académie Sainte Agathe) is a public anglophone primary and secondary school in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. It is operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Persons from the following communities are ...

, a primary and secondary school in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec *

Savannah Arts Academy Savannah Arts Academy (SAA) is the first dedicated performing and visual arts school in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools. Savannah Arts Academy was granted charter school status and the fo ...

, a Georgia, US high school *

Spencerville Adventist Academy Spencerville Adventist Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist full K-12 day academy located in Spencerville, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school syste ...

, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Silver Spring, Maryland * School of American Archaeology, since 2007 known as the

School for Advanced Research The School for Advanced Research (SAR), until 2007 known as the School of American Research and founded in 1907 as the School for American Archaeology (SAA), is an advanced research center located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Since 1967, the sc ...

Other organizations

Sex Addicts Anonymous Sex Anonymous (SAA) is a twelve-step program founded in 1977 for people who want to stop their addictive sexual behavior. There also exists a group known as COSA, for those who have been impacted by others' sexual addiction. Introduction SAA was ...

, an addiction recovery program * South Australian Association, which promoted the

British Colonisation of South Australia British colonisation of South Australia describes the planning and establishment of the colony of South Australia by the British government, covering the period from 1829, when the idea was raised by the then-imprisoned Edward Gibbon Wakefield ...

Southern Athletic Association The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) is a college athletic conference in NCAA Division III that began play in the 2012–13 school year. It was formed in 2011 by seven former members of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and indepe ...

, a U.S. college athletic conference * Specialist Anglers Alliance (UK), now part of the

Angling Trust The Angling Trust, based at Leominster, Herefordshire, is an organisation formed from the merger of six angling authorities to form a single and more powerful non-profit organisation for the benefit of anglers. The body oversees the development o ...

Spondylitis Association of America Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis characterized by long-term inflammation of the joints of the spine typically where the spine joins the pelvis. Occasionally areas affected may include other joints such as the shoulders or hi ...

Standards Australia Standards Australia is a standards organisation established in 1922 and is recognised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian government as the primary non-government standards development body in Australia. It is a co ...

, a standards organisation previously known as the Standards Association of Australia

People

* The

Rodríguez Saá Rodríguez Saá is the surname of a powerful family of the San Luis Province in Argentina, whose members include: * Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (elder), governor of the province (1909–12) *Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, former senator and governor of the pro ...

family of Argentina, including: **

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (born 25 July 1947) is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province, he became the province's governor in 1983, after the end of the National Reorg ...

(born 1947) ex-interim President of Argentina **

Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (elder) Adolfo Rodríguez Saá was Governor of the San Luis Province in Argentina. His grandson Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, would serve as President of Argentina. He was also grandfather and brother of San Luis Province Governors Alberto Rodríguez Saá and Ri ...

(born 19th century), Argentine politician **

Alberto Rodríguez Saá Alberto José Rodriguez Saá (born August 21, 1949) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He is the Governor of San Luis Province. He was presidential candidate for the center-right peronism, Federal Peronism, in 2007 and 2011. The Rodrigue ...

(born 1949) Argentinian politician **

Nicolás Rodríguez Saá Nicolás Marcelo Rodríguez Saá (born 10 May 1984) is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Justicialist Party. Early life and education Nicolás Marcelo Rodríguez Saá was born on ...

(born 1984), Argentinian national deputy **

Ricardo Rodríguez Saá Ricardo Rodríguez Saá was Governor of the San Luis Province in Argentina from 1934 to 1938. His great-nephew, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, would become President of Argentina. His brother, Adolfo, and another great-nephew, Alberto Alberto is the R ...

, Argentinian politician *

Carlos Saa Carlos Alfredo Saa Posso (born December 4, 1983) is a Colombian football defender, who currently plays for Millonarios in Categoría Primera A The Categoría Primera A (), commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor (between 2015 and 2019 ''L ...

(born 1983), Colombian soccer player * Diego Saa (born 1980), Ecuadorian politician * Saa Emerson Lamina, Sierra Leonean politician

Places

Transportation facilities

Saattut Heliport Saattut Heliport is a heliport in Saattut, a village in Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. The heliport is considered a ''helistop'', and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract. Airlines and destinations Air G ...

(non-IATA location identifier: SAA) in Saattut, Greenland *

Shively Field Shively Field is a public airport a mile southwest of Saratoga, in Carbon County, Wyoming. Facilities Shively Field covers ; its asphalt runway, 5/23, is 8,801 x 100 ft (2,683 x 30 m). In the year ending April 30, 2022 the airport had 7,990 ...

(IATA airport identifier: SAA) in Saratoga, Wyoming, US *

St Albans Abbey railway station St Albans Abbey railway station in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England is about south of the city centre in the St Stephen's area. It is the terminus of the Abbey Line from Watford Junction, operated by London Northwestern Railway. It is one of t ...

, in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK *

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport Stockholm Arlanda Airport is an international airport located in the Sigtuna Municipality of Sweden, near the town of Märsta, north of Stockholm and nearly south-east of Uppsala. The airport is located within Stockholm County and the p ...

, Sweden

Other places

* Saa, Benin, a town and arrondissement in Benin *

Saa, Cameroon Sa'a is a town located in the Centre Province of Cameroon precisely in the Lekie division. Sa'a is a small town composed of two main ethic groups: Eton and Manguissa. Both ethic groups speak Eton and Manguissa languages, which are very similar, a ...

, a town in the Centre Province of Cameroon *

Saar (protectorate) The Saar Protectorate (german: Saarprotektorat ; french: Protectorat de la Sarre) officially Saarland (french: Sarre) was a French protectorate separated from Germany; which was later opposed by the Soviet Union, one side occupying Germany like ...

(IOC country code SAA used from 1952 until 1956) *

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see #Name, § Name) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichu ...

, a province of China (Guobiao abbreviation SAA) *

South Atlantic Anomaly The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of . This leads to an increased flux of energetic particles in this region and exposes orbiti ...

, a magnetic anomaly in the South Atlantic Ocean

Science and technology

Computing

Service Assurance Agent IP SLA (Internet Protocol Service Level Agreement) is an active computer network measurement technology that was initially developed by Cisco Systems. IP SLA was previously known as Service Assurance Agent (SAA) or Response Time Reporter (RTR). IP S ...

, used for Network Management * Stateless Address Autoconfiguration; see

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...

Systems Application Architecture Systems Application Architecture (SAA), introduced in 1987, is a set of standards for computer software developed by IBM. The SAA initiative was started in 1987 under the leadership of Earl Wheeler, the "Father of SAA". The intent was to implemen ...

, an interface standard by IBM

Medicine

Serum amyloid A Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are a family of apolipoproteins associated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in plasma. Different isoforms of SAA are expressed constitutively (constitutive SAAs) at different levels or in response to inflammato ...

* Severe

aplastic anemia Aplastic anemia is a cancer in which the body fails to make blood cells in sufficient numbers. Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow by stem cells that reside there. Aplastic anemia causes a deficiency of all blood cell types: red blood ...

Steroidal antiandrogen A steroidal antiandrogen (SAA) is an antiandrogen with a steroidal chemical structure. They are typically antagonists of the androgen receptor (AR) and act both by blocking the effects of androgens like testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) ...

, a type of antiandrogen medication

Spaceflight

Solar aspect angle In orbital spaceflight, the beta angle (\boldsymbol) is the angle between a satellite's orbital plane around Earth and the geocentric position of the sun. The beta angle determines the percentage of time that a satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) s ...

or beta angle, in orbital spaceflight *

, a magnetic anomaly above the South Atlantic Ocean *

, a type of legal agreement with NASA

Other technologies

Colt Single Action Army The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a Trigger (firearms)#Single-action, single-action revolver handgun. It was designed in 1872 for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's P ...

, a revolver

Other uses

Sia (god) Sia or Saa, an ancient Egyptian god, was the deification of perception in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny. He also had a connection with writi ...

, also called ''Saa'', the deification of wisdom in Egyptian mythology