WAL or Wal may refer to:

Places

Wał, Lublin Voivodeship Wał is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Izbica, within Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Izbica, south of Krasnystaw Krasnystaw ( uk, Красностав, Krasnostav) ...

, village in eastern Poland *

Wał, Masovian Voivodeship Wał is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, within Grójec County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, south-west of Grójec, and s ...

, village in east-central Poland * Wales, constituent nation of the United Kingdom * Wallonia, Walloon Region of Belgium *

Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard ...

(IATA: WAL), Virginia, USA

People

Given named

* Wal (given name) *

Niels Wal Hansen Niels Waldemar Hansen (23 October 1892 – 10 October 1972) was a Danish sailing (sport), sailor. He competed in the Sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre, 8 Metre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. References External links

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(1892–1973), Dutch sailer

Surnamed

* Peter Chol Wal, South Sudanese politician * Priya Wal (born 1985), Indian actress *

Van der Wal Van der Wal (or van de Wal, Vander Wal, Vanderwal, van de Wall, VanderWaal) is a toponymic surname of Dutch origin. The original bearer of the name may have lived or worked at or near a "wal": a river embankment, quay, or rampart. In 2007, Van de(r) ...

(surname), a Dutch surname which can also be derived as Wal

Fictional characters

* Wallace Cadwallader "Wal" Footrot, the main character in the ''

Footrot Flats ''Footrot Flats'', a comic strip by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball, ran from 1976 to 1994 in newspapers (unpublished strips continued to appear in book form until 2000). Altogether there are 27 numbered books (collecting the newspaper strips, ...

'' comic strip * Wal Rus, a Marvel Comics character, a fictional anthropomorphic walrus

Brands, groups, organizations, enterprises

* Wal (bass), a brand of electric bass guitars, founded by Ian Waller and Pete Stevens * Wal-Mart Stores, a multi-national retailer founded by Sam Walton * World Atlantic Airlines (ICAO: WAL), an airline based in Miami, Florida, USA

Technology

* Wide-angle lens, photographic equipment * Write-ahead logging, a database management technique

Other uses

* Wolaitta language (ISO 639: wal) * Dornier Do J ''Wal'' ("whale"), a German flying boat of the 1920s *

Weighted-average life In finance, the weighted-average life (WAL) of an amortizing loan or amortizing bond, also called average life, is the weighted average of the times of the ''principal repayments'': it's the average time until a dollar of principal is repaid. In a ...

, in loan repayment timing