La, LA, or L.A. may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- La, a musical note in the most common form of solmization, as well as in solfège
- "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
Other media
- l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings
- La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan)
- 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
- LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher
Language
- Latin, ISO 639-1 language code
- La (Javanese) (ꦭ), a letter in the Javanese script
- la, the feminine definite article in several languages
Places
Europe
- LA postcode area, northwest England
- Landeck (district), Austria (used on automobile license plates)
- Long Ashton, North Somerset, England
North America
- Los Angeles, California, the second most populous city in the US
- 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 alpha-2 code
- .la, country-code top level domain for Laos
- Las Anod, a city in Khatumo and Somalia
- Latin America
- La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
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
Computing
- Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs
Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
- Lanthanum, chemical element with symbol La
- 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
- Language arts, an educational subject
- Legislative assistant
People with the given name, La
- La David Johnson (1992–2017), United States Army Sergeant
- LaBradford Smith (born 1969), an American basketball player
See also
- La La (disambiguation)
- Los Angeles (disambiguation)