AZ explained

AZ or az may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Authority Zero, an Arizona punk rock band
AZ (record label), a French record label
Abendzeitung, a newspaper based in Munich, Germany
Assignment Zero, a crowdsourced journalism project

Companies and organizations

Alkmaar Zaanstreek, formerly AZ '67, a Dutch Eredivisie football club
- AZ (women), the affiliated women's football club (2007–2011)
AstraZeneca, a UK-based pharmaceutical company
- Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (AZ), their COVID-19 vaccine
ITA Airways (IATA code: AZ), the national airline of Italy
Alitalia (former IATA code: AZ), a former Italian airline
Ministry of General Affairs (Dutch; Flemish: Ministerie van Algemene Zaken), a Dutch Government ministry

People

Az people, Turkophone people from present-day Russia
AZ (rapper) (born 1972), rapper from Brooklyn, New York, US
Azie Faison (born 1964; known as AZ), former drug dealer from New York, US

Places

Arizona (postal abbreviation: AZ), a US state
Azerbaijan (ISO 3166-1 country code: AZ), a Eurasian country

Science and technology

.az, the country code top level domain for the nation of Azerbaijan
AlphaZero, game-playing artificial intelligence
Azimuth, the horizontal component of a compass direction
Toyota AZ engine, an engine family

Other uses

Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code: az)
Lighter-than-air aircraft tender (AZ), a US Navy hull classification symbol

See also