La

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

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

Arts and entertainment

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)
  • , 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

Places

Europe

North America

Elsewhere

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology, biochemistry, and medicine

Computing

  • Load average, a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

Other uses

People with the given name, La

Vessels of the United States Navy

  • Los Angeles-class submarine, a boat class
  • USS Los Angeles (ID-1470), a tanker in commission from 1917 to 1919
  • USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), an airship in commission from 1924 to 1932
  • USS Los Angeles (CA-135), a heavy cruiser in commission from 1945 to 1963
  • USS Los Angeles (SSN-688), a submarine in commission from 1976 to 2010

See also

  • La La (disambiguation)
  • Los Angeles (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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