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'''Pa''', '''pa''', '''PA''', '''P.A.''' or '''pA''' may refer to:
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== Arts, media and entertainment ==
*[[Parental Advisory]], abbreviated '''PAL''' or '''PA''', a warning label placed on audio recordings 
*[[P.A. (group)]], a southern hip hop band in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
*''[[Penny Arcade]]'', a webcomic
*''[[Planetary Annihilation]]'', a 2014 video game
*[[Pa (song)|"Pa" (song)]], by Tini
*[[Live PA]]

== Businesses and organisations ==
===Government, military, and politics===
* [[Palestinian National Authority]], also called Palestinian Authority, interim governing body of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank
* [[Pakistan Army]]
* [[Patriotic Alliance]], a South African political party
* [[Patriotic Alternative]], a British nationalist group
* [[People's Association (Singapore)]], a Singaporean grassroots statutory board
* [[Philippine Army]]
* [[Patrulla Águila]]
* [[Planning Authority (Malta)]], a government agency of Malta
* [[Progressive Alliance]], a political international of social-democratic, socialist and progressive political parties and organisations

===Airlines===
* [[Pan American World Airways]], IATA airline designator PA (to 1991)
* [[Florida Coastal Airlines]], IATA airline designator PA (1995–2010)
* [[Airblue]], IATA airline designator PA (from 2003)

===Other===
* [[Pā]], a traditional Maori settlement
* [[Professional association]], a type of business organization
* [[PA Consulting Group]]
* [[PA Media]], a news agency in the UK and Ireland, formerly the Press Association
* [[Produttori Associati]], an Italian record label

== Linguistics ==
* [[Pa (cuneiform)]], a cuneiform sign
* [[Pa (Javanese)]] (ꦥ), a letter in the Javanese script
* [[Punjabi language]] (ISO 639-1 language code pa)
* Abbreviation for several languages, including:
** [[Proto-Afroasiatic language|Proto-Afro-Asiatic]]
** [[Proto-Algic]]
** [[Proto-Algonquian]]
** [[Proto-Altaic]]
** [[Proto-Athabaskan]]
** [[Proto-Austronesian]]

==People==
* Pa, an affectionate term for [[father]]
* [[Pa (name)]], a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname
* [[Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa]], a mythical ancestor of the Tibetan people 

=== Job titles ===
* [[Parliamentary assistant]] (UK politics)
* [[Personal assistant]]
* [[Physician assistant]] or physician associate
* [[Political assistant (disambiguation)|Political assistant]]
* [[Production assistant]], a title in the film, media, and publishing industries
* [[Project architect]] 
* [[Prosecuting attorney]], title of prosecutors in some US state courts and smaller jurisdictions
* [[Protonotary Apostolic]], the highest ranking non-episcopal honorific title for Roman Catholic clergy
* [[Public Accountant]], a professional qualification in the US

==Places==
=== United States ===
* [[Pennsylvania]], US state (postal abbreviation PA)
* [[Phillips Academy Andover]], a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as ''Phillips Andover'' or ''PA''
* [[Portsmouth Abbey School]], a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
* [[Pulaski Academy]], a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas

=== Elsewhere ===
* [[Panama]] (ISO country code PA)
* [[Pará]], Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
* [[Pâ]], a town in Burkina Faso
* [[PA postcode area]], Scotland
* [[Prince Albert, Saskatchewan]], Canada

== Science and technology==
* [[.pa]], top-level domain for Panama
* [[ALCO PA]], a railroad locomotive
* [[Parental alienation]], in psychology
* [[Pascal (unit)]], the SI unit of pressure
* [[Peano axioms]], a set of axioms for the natural numbers
* [[Peptide amphiphile]], a type of self-assembling peptide
* [[Picoamp]] (pA), one trillionth of an ampere
* [[Polyacrylamide]], a gel-forming polymer
* [[Polyamide]], a family of synthetic materials used in fabrics
* [[Predictive analytics]], analyzes current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events
* [[Protactinium]], symbol Pa, a chemical element
* [[Provider-aggregatable address space]], a system of allocation of internet addresses
* [[Public address system]] (PA system or simply PA), for making public announcements
* [[Pernicious anemia]], anemia that results from lack of intrinsic factor
* [[Primary aldosteronism]], excess production of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal glands

==Sports==
* [[Paralympics Australia]], previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) from 1998–2019 is the National Paralympic Committee of Australia
* [[Pickleball in Canada#Governing body|Pickleball Alberta]]

== Other uses ==
* PA, a series of [[paper size#PA series|paper sizes]]
* [[Pā]], a type of fortified Māori village
* [[Performance appraisal]], for evaluating an employee's job performance 
* [[Plate appearance]], a statistic in baseball
* [[Prince Albert (genital piercing)]], a form of male genital piercing
* [[Public bill]], also known as a Public Act, in law

== See also ==
* [[P&A (disambiguation)]]

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