Wikipedia / La
Wikipedia / La
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
Musical groups
Musicians
L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer
Yung L.A., a rapper
La the Darkman (born 1979), stage name of American a musician and emcee Lason Jackson
Albums
L.A. (EP), by Teddy Thompson
L.A. (Light Album), a Beach Boys album
La, a Les Gordon album
Songs
"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on Figure 8 (album)
"L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973
"La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River
Literature
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
Liber Annuus, academic journal
Other media
La7, an Italian television channel
L.A. Screenings, a television market
LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher
Politics and government
Liberal Alliance (Denmark), a Danish liberal party
Lebanese Army, the military of the Republic of Lebanon
Local authority, a unit of government in the United Kingdom
Legislative assistant, a rôle on a legislator's staff
Education
Language arts, an educational subject
Lawrence Academy at Groton, an American boarding school
Library Association, now called the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
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
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
La district, in Oudomxay Province, Laos
Ladakh, a union territory of India (ISO 3166-2 code)
Las Anod, a city in Khatumo and Somalia
La, Ghana, a town in La Dade Kotopon Municipal District, Greater Accra Region
Transportation
Lubuk Alung railway station, West Sumatra, Indonesia
LATAM Chile, formerly LAN Airlines (IATA code)
Lavochkin, a Russian design bureau
Vessels of the United States Navy
Los Angeles-class submarine, a boat class
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
LoongArch, a RISC instruction set architecture
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
People
People with the given name, La
La David Johnson (1992–2017), United States Army Sergeant
LaBradford Smith (born 1969), American basketball player
People nicknamed La
Lasse Andersson, (born 1994), Danish handballer
Other uses
Landscape architecture, the design of outdoor structures