NPA

NPA may refer to:

Organizations and companies

• National Parks Association (disambiguation)
• National People's Action, a community organizing network
• National Pasta Association, an association for the United States pasta industry
• National Physicians Alliance, a multi-specialty medical organization in the United States
• National Postdoctoral Association, an organization for postdoctoral researchers in the United States
• National Prescription Administrators, a former pharmaceutical company in the United States
• Natural Philosophy Alliance, a group that believes mainstream physics and cosmology are wrong
• Network Printing Alliance, a group of printer manufacturers
• Network Professional Association, an advocate for the international network computing professional in the United States
• Norwegian People's Aid, a non-governmental labour and humanitarian organization in Norway
• National Pharmacy Association of the UK

Government and politics

• National park authority, a term used in the United Kingdom for the legal body in charge of a national park
• National Party of Australia, an Australian political party
• National People's Army, the armed forces of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR)
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Indian national institute for training of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers
• National Police Agency (disambiguation)
• National Port Authority, Liberia
• National Production Authority, a former agency of the United States government for defense mobilization from 1950 to 1953
• National Prosecuting Authority, a governing body of the Republic of South Africa
• New Anticapitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), a far-left French political party
• New People's Army, armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines
• Nigerian Ports Authority, a government agency that governs and operates the ports of Nigeria
• No Party Affiliation, a voter or politician who is not affiliated with any political party
• Non-Party Affiliate, a politician who is not affiliated with any political party
• Non-Partisan Association, a civic political party in Vancouver, British Columbia
• Note Printing Australia, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia
• Transnet National Ports Authority of South Africa
• NPA Satellite Mapping, a UK remote sensing company
• Non-Prosecution Agreement, a way to avoid prosecution

Science and medicine

• N-Propyl-L-arginine, a chemical substance
• 1-N-Naphthylphthalamic acid, an auxin plant hormone transport inhibitor
• Nanopascal (nPa), a unit of pressure
• Nasopharyngeal airway, a tube that is designed to be inserted into the nasal passageway
• Niemann–Pick disease type A, a genetic disorder

Miscellaneous

• Naval Air Station Pensacola (airport code), Pensacola, Florida, USA
• .NET Persistence API, also known as NPersistence
• Non-performing asset, banking term for loans in jeopardy of default, ones that have not paid principal or interest for 90+ days
• Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy, a high school in Arcata, California, USA
• Northland Preparatory Academy, a middle and high school in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
• Numbering Plan Area, a geographic area assigned a three-digit area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
• Neutral Paralympic Athletes