VA

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VA, Va and variants may refer to:

• Vä, Sweden, a village
• Vatican City (ISO 3166-1 country code VA)
• Virginia, United States postal abbreviation

• VA Software (also known as "VA Research" and "VA Linux Systems") a company that eventually became Geeknet
• VA Tech Wabag, a company with headquarters in Austria and India
• Virgin Atlantic, a worldwide airline owned by Richard Branson of the Virgin group
• Virgin Australia (IATA code since 2011)
• V Australia (IATA code 2009–2011)
• Viasa (IATA code 1960–1997)

• United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a department of the US government
• VA (Public & Science), Swedish scientific organisation
• Vermont Academy, boarding and day high school in Saxtons River, VT
• VA, post nominal letters of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
• VA, nickname for the French association football club Valenciennes FC
• Virtual airline (hobby), flight simulation hobby organization
• Voluntary aided school, type of state-funded school in England and Wales
• Visual Arts (company), Japanese publishing company

• Va (film), a 2010 Tamil-language movie
• Vampire Academy, series of 6 best-selling books
• Victoria & Albert Museum, more usually given as "V&A"
• Violent Apathy, punk rock band from Kalamazoo, MI
• Virtual Adepts, a "tradition" in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
• Virtual Analog, musical instruments that emulate analog synthesizers
• Visual arts
• Voice actor, actor who provides voices for animated characters or non-visual media

• Valproic acid, an often-used anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug
• Vascular anomaly, in medicine
• Ventral anterior nucleus, a component of the thalamus in the central nervous system
• Ventricular arrhythmia
• Visual acuity, a quantitative measure of visual perception

• .va, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City
• Validation Authority, in public key infrastructure
• Virtual address, a computer memory location in virtual address space
• Vertical alignment, a technology used in a modern liquid-crystal display
• Visual analytics, business intelligence visualization tools
• Vulnerability assessment, the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system

• Vertex algebra
• Vertical asymptote, in mathematics
• Volt-ampere, the SI unit of apparent power measurement, equivalent to the watt

• VA (voltage), a positive supply voltage

• V_A, the design maneuvering speed of an aircraft
• Vozvraschaemyi Apparat or VA spacecraft, a Soviet reentry vehicle

• Various Artists, used in the description of a music album which contains tracks that have been compiled from several different artists
• Va people, an ethnic group in China and Myanmar
• Value added, in economics
• Variable annuity, a financial instrument
• Vice admiral, a military rank
• Virtual assistant, an independent contractor providing assistance to clients via the internet
• Volatile acidity or vinegar taint, high acetic acidity in wine
• Amateur radio callsign prefix for Canada, e.g. as in "VA1BOB"
• Vá (footballer), Angolan footballer
• MG VA, a car manufactured by MG