# VA

VA, Va and variants may refer to:

## Places

* Vä, Sweden, a village
* Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA)
* Virginia, United States postal abbreviation

## Businesses and organizations
### Businesses

* VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems") a company that eventually became Geeknet
* VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
* Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
* Virgin Australia (IATA code since 2011)
* V Australia (IATA code 2009–2011)
* Viasa (IATA code 1960–1997)

### Organizations

* United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a department of the US government
* VA (Public & Science), Swedish scientific organisation
* Vermont Academy, boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
* VA, post nominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
* VA, nickname for the French association football club Valenciennes FC
* Virtual airline (hobby), flight simulation hobby organization
* Voluntary aided school, type of state-funded school in England and Wales
* Visual Arts (company), Japanese publishing company

## Media and entertainment

* Va (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie
* Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
* Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
* Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
* Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
* Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate analog synthesizers
* Visual arts
* Voice actor, actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media

## Science, technology, and mathematics
### Biology and medicine

* Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug
* Vascular anomaly, in medicine
* Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
* Ventricular arrhythmia
* Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception

### Computing and systems

* .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City
* Validation Authority, in public key infrastructure
* Virtual address, a computer memory location in virtual address space
* Vertical alignment, a technology used in a modern liquid-crystal display
* Visual analytics, business intelligence visualization tools
* Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system

### Mathematics and physics

* Vertex algebra
* Vertical asymptote, in mathematics
* Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, equivalent to the watt

### Electronics

* VA (voltage), a positive supply voltage

### Space and aviation

* V$_A$, the design maneuvering speed of an aircraft
* Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle

## Other uses

* Various Artists, used in the description of a music album which contains tracks that have been compiled from several different artists
* Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
* Value added, in economics
* Variable annuity, a financial instrument
* Vice admiral, a military rank
* Virtual assistant, an independent contractor providing assistance to clients via the internet
* Volatile acidity or vinegar taint, high acetic acidity in wine
* Amateur radio callsign prefix for Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"
* Vá (footballer), Angolan footballer
* MG VA, a car manufactured by MG