# 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
* "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

* Liberal Alliance (Denmark), a Danish liberal party
* 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
* 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

## 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