BA explained

BA or variants may refer to:

Bachelor of Arts, an academic degree

Businesses and organizations

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a library and cultural center in Egypt
Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland
British Airways, a British airline
British Association for the Advancement of Science, now British Science Association
Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Federal Employment Agency of Germany
Selskap med begrenset ansvar, a type of Norwegian company with limited liability
Brewers Association, trade group in the United States

Languages

Aka-Bo language, an Indian language, also known as Ba
Bashkir language, ISO 639-1 language code ba
Ba (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform texts
Ba (Indic), in Indic abugidas
Ba (Javanese) (ꦧ), in the Javanese script
Ba (Mongolic), in alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages
Arabic letter ب, named Arabic: باء

People

Ba (given name), in Myanmar and ancient China
Ba (surname), a West African surname
Ba (pharaoh), an early Egyptian or ancient Egyptian king

Places

The Americas

Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Bahamas, WMO country code

Asia

Ba (state), an ancient state in eastern Sichuan, China
Ba River (China)
Ba River (Vietnam)
Bandra railway station, Indian Railways code BA
Ba'a, Rote, Indonesia
Bahrain, obsolete NATO, FIPS and LOC MARC country code
Banan District, Chongqing, China, formerly Ba County
Bazhou, Hebei, China, formerly Ba County

Europe

BA postcode area, Bath, England
Ba (Ljig), Serbia
- Ba Congress, 1944
Bosnia and Herzegovina, ISO-3166 country code BA
- .ba, the top-level domain for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Oceania

Science and technology

Ba (genus), land snails
ba space, in mathematics
Barium, chemical symbol Ba
Barye, a measurement unit of pressure
6-Benzylaminopurine, plant hormone
BA, sublineages of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
British Association screw threads, a set of small screw threads

Sport

Ba F.C., a Fijian football club
Ba game, a version of medieval football played in Scotland
Basketball Australia, promoting basketball in Australia
Batting average, a statistic in cricket and baseball
Bowls Australia, a governing body
Kirkwall Ba Game, or The Ba', annual event in Orkney, Scotland

Transportation

Ford Falcon (BA), an Australian car
NZR B^A class, a New Zealand steam locomotive classification

Other uses

BA, dominical letter for a leap year starting on Saturday
Ba (soul), an Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul or spirit
Ba. (band), a Lithuanian rock band
"B.A." Baracus, a fictional character in TV series The A-Team
Beerenauslese, or BA, a German late-harvest wine
Business agent (labor), a position in some local trade unions
Business analyst, one who processes, interprets and documents business processes

See also

Ba River (disambiguation)
BAA (disambiguation)
Bah humbug (disambiguation)
Loch Bà (disambiguation)
Ya ba, drug containing methamphetamine and caffeine
Boston and Albany Railroad, reporting mark B&A