Pa

Pa or PA may refer to:

Places

• Pâ, a town in Burkina Faso
• Pâ Department, a department in Burkina Faso
• PA postcode area, in Scotland
• Province of Palermo, Italy
• Palo Alto, California
• Panama, ISO country code
  • .pa, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Panama
• Pará, Brazil (postal code)
• Pennsylvania, United States (postal abbreviation)
• Port Arthur (disambiguation), several places
• Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Science and technology

• PA-RISC, an instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
• PA series, a group of paper sizes
• Pascal (unit), an SI derived unit of pressure
• Peano axioms in mathematical logic
• Physician assistant, the title of one group of mid-level medical practitioners
• Polyacetylene
• Polyamide, the type of polymer that makes of proteins, wool, silk, and nylons
• Power amplifier
• Proanthocyanidins
• Protactinium, a chemical element
• Production assistant, a job title in filmmaking and television
• The position angle of a binary star system
• Public address, a system used to amplify speech or music so that they may be heard by large crowds of people, especially outdoors

Business

• PA Consulting Group
• Personal assistant
• Production assistant, a title in the film industry
• Florida Coastal Airlines IATA airline designator
• Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) (IATA airline designator)
• Phillips Academy, a private secondary school in Massachusetts, USA
• Press Association
• Professional Association, a type of business organization

Politics

• Palestinian National Authority, an interim organization that nominally governs parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
• People's Association, in Singapore
• Andalusian Party, a Spanish (Andalusian) Party

Military

• Pakistan Army,the ground arm of the Armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• Philippine Army, the ground arm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
• Pā (Māori), a fortified Maori village

Other uses

• Father
• Pickup Artist
• Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, a Tibetan people ancestor
• P.A., a southern hip hop trio in Atlanta
• LivePA, a live performance artist or personal appearance
• Parental advisory, a warning label used on audio records
• Passive Aggressive
• Penny Arcade (webcomic), a popular gaming webcomic
• Per annum
• PortableApps.com, a website for portable applications
• Plate appearance, a statistic in baseball
• Prince Albert piercing, a form of male genital piercing
• Pro-Ana, a pro-Anorexia
• Public address, a system used to amplify speech or music so that they may be heard by large crowds of people, especially outdoors
• Punjabi language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code)

See also

• PAA (disambiguation)