LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest 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)
- 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
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
- 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
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
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
- 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