La

LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.

La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:

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

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

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