La, LA or L.A. may refer to:

• Los Angeles, the most-populous city in California, and second-most in the United States
• Louisiana, USA (postal symbol)
• Lancaster, Lancashire, UK (post code)
• Landeck (district), Austria (car license plates)
• Laos (ISO country code). See also .la
• Latin America
• Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
• Long Ashton, North Somerset, UK
• Los Altos (disambiguation), North America
• Lower Alabama (South Alabama and Northwest Florida)
• Larissa, Greece
• Lewiston–Auburn, Maine, USA

a mountain pass in Tibetan and Bhutanese languages

Lâ is a town in the Sourgou Department of Boulkiemdé Province in central western Burkina Faso. It has a population of 2180.

.la is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos.

Los Angeles ( ; , which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation ) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of  California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".

Lá Nua (meaning 'New Day') was an Irish language daily newspaper based in Belfast. It was the first daily newspaper in Ireland to be published in Irish. Lá Nua belonged to the Belfast Media Group, and is sister paper of The Andersonstown News.