BA
Wikimedia disambiguation page
BA or variants may refer to:
Bachelor of Arts, an academic degree
Businesses and organizations
The New York Stock Exchange abbreviation for Boeing
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a library and cultural center in Egypt
Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland
British Academy
British Airways, a British airline
British Association for the Advancement of Science, now British Science Association
Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Federal Employment Agency of Germany
Selskap med begrenset ansvar, a type of Norwegian company with limited liability
Brewers Association, trade group in the United States
Languages
Aka-Bo language, an Indian language, also known as Ba
Bashkir language, ISO 639-1 language code ba
Ba (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform texts
Ba (Indic), in Indic abugidas
Ba (Javanese) (ꦧ), in the Javanese script
Ba (kana), in syllabic Japanese script
Ba (Mongolic), in alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages
Arabic letter ب, named باء bāʾ
bǎ construction, in Chinese
People
Ba (given name), in Myanmar and ancient China
Ba (surname), a West African surname
Ba (pharaoh), an early Egyptian or ancient Egyptian king
Places
The Americas
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Bahamas, WMO country code
Asia
Ba (state), an ancient state in eastern Sichuan, China
Ba River (China)
Ba, Tha Tum District, Thailand
Ba River (Vietnam)
Bandra railway station, Indian Railways code BA
Ba'a, Rote, Indonesia
Bahrain, obsolete NATO, FIPS and LOC MARC country code
Banan District, Chongqing, China, formerly Ba County
Bazhou, Hebei, China, formerly Ba County
Europe
BA postcode area, Bath, England
Ba (Ljig), Serbia
Ba Congress, 1944
Bosnia and Herzegovina, ISO-3166 country code BA
.ba, the top-level domain for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oceania
Ba Province, Fiji
Ba (town)
Ba District, Fiji
Ba River (Fiji)
Ba (Open Constituency, Fiji)
Science and technology
Ba (genus), land snails
ba space, in mathematics
Barium, chemical symbol Ba
Barye, a measurement unit of pressure
6-Benzylaminopurine, plant hormone
BA, sublineages of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
British Association screw threads, a set of small screw threads
Ba, the Chinese name of the star Epsilon Serpentis
Bronze Age, an archaeological period
Sport
Ba F.C., a Fijian football club
Ba game, a version of medieval football played in Scotland
Basketball Australia, promoting basketball in Australia
Batting average, a statistic in cricket and baseball
Bowls Australia, a governing body
Kirkwall Ba Game, or The Ba', annual event in Orkney, Scotland
Transportation
Ford Falcon (BA), an Australian car
NZR BA class, a New Zealand steam locomotive classification
West Sumatra (vehicle registration prefix BA)
Other uses
BA, dominical letter for a leap year starting on Saturday
Ba (soul), an Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul or spirit
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