La
Appearance
La or LA may refer to:
Places
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Louisiana, USA (postal abbreviation)
- Lancaster, Lancashire, UK (post code)
- Landeck (district), Austria (car number plates)
- Laos (ISO country code)
- Latin America
- Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
- Long Ashton, North Somerset, UK
- Lower Alabama (South Alabama and Northwest Florida)
Music and media
- La, musical note in solfege
- L. A. Reid, a prominent music producer
- L.A. (Light Album), Beach Boys album
- Lá Nua, Irish language newspaper
- La7, Italian television channel
- The La's, English rock band
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, video game
- Last Armageddon, a Japan-only video game
Business and organizations
- LAN (airline)
- Lavochkin, Russian design bureau
- Library Association, former name of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- Linux Australia, organization
- London Assembly
- LucasArts, American video game developer and publisher
- Legislative assistant
Education and science
- Language arts, class subject
- Lanthanum, chemical element
- Latin, language code
- Lawrence Academy, American boarding school
- Loyola Academy, American college preparatory high school
- Lewis acid, literature abbreviation
- Linear algebra, branch of mathematics
- Linoleic acid, fatty acid
- Lupus anticoagulant, autoimmune disorder
- Lauric acid, saturated fatty acid
Other
- La (genus), group of butterflies
- La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan)
- La, the feminine singular definite article in several Romance languages, including Spanish, French, and Italian. In English, prefixed to a woman's name, ironically as if to that of a prima donna.
- La, the final particle of assertion in Mandarin -often adopted for use in Malaysian and Singaporean English.