La Explained

LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous 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)
• L.A. (EP), by Teddy Thompson
• L.A. (Light Album), a Beach Boys album
• "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), 2007
• "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River
• La, a Les Gordon album

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 Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon
• Library Association, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
• Linux Australia
• 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 form of the definite article in many Romance languages

Places

Europe

• Lower Austria (abbreviation: LA), a federal state in Austria
• 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 Alamos, New Mexico
• 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, its top-level domain
• Ladakh, a union territory of India (ISO 3166-2 code)
• Las Anod, a city in Khatumo and Somalia
• Latin America
• La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region
• Lubuk Alung railway station, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology, biochemistry, and medicine

• 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
• Ludwig's angina, a type of bacterial infection that occurs in the floor of the mouth, under the tongue

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, a boat class

See also

• La La (disambiguation)
• Los Angeles (disambiguation)