# APA

APA most often refers to:
APA or Apa may also refer to:

## Entertainment and media

* Acolytes Protection Agency, a professional wrestling tag-team
* Agency for the Performing Arts, a talent and literary agency
* Father (1966 film) (Hungarian: Apa)

## Government and politics

* Administrative Procedure Act (United States), a statute controlling government agency actions
* Administrative Procedure Act (Switzerland)
* Advance pricing agreement
* Approved Publication Arrangement

## Language

* Americanist phonetic notation or the American phonetic alphabet
* Southern Athabaskan languages excluding Navajo (ISO 639 code: apa)

## Organizations and businesses
### Australia

* APA Group (Australia), electricity generation and gas pipeline company
* Aborigines Progressive Association
* Australian Parkour Association
* Australian Progressive Alliance
* Australian Powerlifting Alliance

### Japan

* Japan Advertising Photographers' Association
* APA Group (Japan), a Japanese hotel chain

### United Kingdom

* All Peoples' Association (1930–1936), a British organisation for international amity
* Army Prosecuting Authority, former government body
* Association of Publishing Agencies

### United States

* APA – The Engineered Wood Association, formerly the American Plywood Association
* APA Corporation, an energy company
* A-P-A Transport Corp., New Jersey
* Adirondack Park Agency, New York
* Agency for the Performing Arts, a talent and literary agency
* Allied Pilots Association, a labor union for American Airlines pilots
* American Payroll Association
* American Philological Association, devoted to Greek and Roman civilization
* American Philosophical Association
* American Planning Association, representing the field of city and regional planning
* American Polygraph Association
* American Poolplayers Association
* American Poultry Association
* American Protective Association, a former anti-Catholic organization
* American Psychiatric Association
* Anglican Province of America, a church
* Austin Peace Academy, an Islamic school in Texas

### Elsewhere

* Association of Panamerican Athletics
* Austria Press Agency (German: Austria Presse Agentur)
* Azerbaijan Press Agency
* NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs (Außenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP), a Nazi Party organization
* Peruvian Astronomy Association (Spanish: Asociación Peruana de Astronomía), in Peru

## People

* Apa (footballer) (born 2000), Spanish footballer
* Apa of Slavonia, 12th-century Hungarian noble
* Apa Sherpa, a Nepali Sherpa and famous Mt. Everest mountaineer
* KJ Apa (born 1997), New Zealand actor

## Places
### Asia

* Apa, Acıpayam
* Upu, a historic region surrounding Damascus (alternative transliteration)
* The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

### North America

* Apache Railway, Arizona, U.S. (by reporting mark)
* Anderson Preparatory Academy, a school in Indiana, United States
* Centennial Airport, Colorado, United States (by IATA code)

### Other places

* Antarctic Protected Area, several types of zone on Antarctica
* Apa, Nigeria, a local government area in Benue
* Apa, Satu Mare, a commune in Romania

## Maritime

* Apa (ship), an Amazonas-class corvette of the Brazilian Navy
* Advance provisioning allowance
* A retired US Navy hull classification symbol: Attack transport (APA)

## Science and technology

* Aldosterone-producing adenoma
* All points addressable
* Amplified piezoelectric actuator
* Atypical polypoid adenomyoma
* Apa, a type of Bronze Age sword named after the Romanian village

## Other uses

* Apa, Coptic form of Ab (Semitic)
* Amateur press association, any group of people who self-publish material among themselves
* American pale ale
* Antarctic Protected Area, several types of place on Antarctica
* Asian Pacific American
* Asset purchase agreement
* Australian Postgraduate Awards