Pia Explained

Pia or PIA may refer to:

Places

• Pia, Pyrénées-Orientales, a French commune
• Pia, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• PIA Township, a Pakistan International Airlines staff township, Pakistan
• 614 Pia, an asteroid

People

• Pia (given name), a feminine given name
• Pia (surname)
• Piá (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer João Batista Inácio
• Piá (footballer, born 1973), Brazilian football player and manager Reginaldo Revelino Jandoso
• Pia Pounds, stage name of Ugandan recording artist Tracy Kirabo (born 1996)
• Pia Ravenna, stage name of Finnish opera singer Hjördis Sophie Tilgmann (1894-1964)

Science and technology

• para-Iodoamphetamine, a research chemical
• Peripheral Interface Adapter, an integrated circuit
• Pia mater, a layer of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord
• Purified isophthalic acid, an aromatic dicarboxylic acid
• Tacca leontopetaloides, a species of flowering plant also known as Pia

Aviation

• Pacific Island Aviation, a former airline headquartered in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
• Pakistan International Airlines (abbreviation and ICAO designator)
• Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (IATA code and FAA location identifier), Peoria, Illinois, US
• Peruvian International Airways, an international airline that operated from 1947 to 1949
• Plattsburgh International Airport, NY, US
• Penang International Airport, Penang, Malaysia

Organisations

• Pasteur Institute of Algeria
• Philippine Information Agency, the main development communication arm of the government
• Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
• Planning Institute Australia
• Princeton in Asia, a nonprofit organization
• Printing Industries of America
• Private Internet Access, a virtual private network provider
• Puntland Intelligence Agency, Somalia

Law

• Proprietary information agreement or non-disclosure agreement
• Personal Information Agent, an individual authorized in dealings with third persons
• Post-indictment arraignment, US
• Primary Insurance Amount, in regards to benefits payable under Title II of the Social Security Act
• Personal Insolvency Arrangement, a statutory mechanism in Ireland
• Procurement Integrity Act, in the United States

Other uses

• Baroudeurs de Pia XIII or Pia Donkeys, a rugby league club based in Pia, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
• Privacy Impact Assessment, used to identify and minimize the privacy risks of new projects or policies
• Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, an academic journal
• PIA F.C., a football club based in Karachi, Pakistan
• PIA Model Secondary School, a school in PIA Township, Pakistan
• PIA Planetarium (disambiguation), three planetariums in Pakistan
• Proto-Indo-Aryan language, a reconstructed language ancestral to the Indo-Aryan languages
• Pia (band), a Korean rock band
• Pia (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Pia Carry, a lifesaving technique
• Pia Film Festival, a Japanese film festival

See also

• Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy
• Casina Pio IV or Villa Pia, Vatican City
• PIAS (disambiguation)
• Piia, a feminine given name
• Namahana Piʻia (1787–1829), a wife of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii
• PIIA, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs