A mesa is an elevated area of land with a flat top, surrounded on all sides by steep cliffs.

Mesa or MESA may also refer to:

Geography

Mozambique

• Mesa, Mozambique, a town in Cabo Delgado province

Spain

• Mesa (river), in the Sierra de Solorio range area

United States

• Mesa, Arizona, a city in Maricopa County

• Mesa, California, a census-designated place in Inyo County

Mesa County, Colorado

• Mesa, Colorado, an unincorporated town

• Mesa, Idaho, an unincorporated town in Adams County

• Mesa, Washington, a city in Franklin County

Education

• Colorado Mesa University, a public university in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States

• Mesa Community College, a two-year college in Mesa, Arizona, United States

• Mesa County Valley School District 51, a public school district in Mesa County, Colorado, United States

• San Diego Mesa College, a two-year college in San Diego, California, United States

People

• Mesa (surname)

• Mesha (Hebrew: Mēša‘), Moabite king of the 9th century BC

Science and medicine

• Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance

• Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement, an academic preparation program

• Maximum entropy spectral estimation, spectral density estimation method

• Methyl salicylate, chemical compound

• Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

• Mesa (wasp), a genus of thynnid wasp

Technology

• Mesa (programming language)

• Mesa (computer graphics), an open-source software implementation of the OpenGL, Vulkan and other specifications

• MESA (seismic survey design software)

• Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association, an international association of manufacturing execution systems companies

• Mesa Boogie, also known as Mesa Engineering, an American manufacturer of guitar amplifiers

• MESA Imaging, a Swiss time-of-flight camera manufacturer

• Project MESA, a telecommunications standards collaboration

• Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array, a surveillance radar system

• Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly, a component of the Apollo Lunar Module

Transport

• Mesa Air Group, an American commercial aviation holding company

• Mesa Airlines, an American regional airline

Other uses

Meṣa, a solar month in the traditional Indian calendar, and a symbol in Hindu astrology

• Mesha Sankranti, solar New Year in the Hindu calendar

• Mesa (horse)

• Middle East Studies Association of North America

• Młoda Ekstraklasa, a Polish youth football league

• Mesa, a chain of restaurants in the United States and the Bahamas owned by chef Bobby Flay

• Mesa, home to the loose-knit community in the documentary Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa

See also

• La Mesa (disambiguation)

• Mesa transistor

• Mesha (month)