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WAL or Wal may refer to:

Places

• Wał, Lublin Voivodeship, village in eastern Poland
• Wał, Masovian Voivodeship, village in east-central Poland

Codes

• Sierra Leone, country in West Africa, license plate code
• Wales, constituent nation of the United Kingdom, FIFA code
• Wallonia, Walloon Region of Belgium, ISO 3166-2 code BE-WAL
• Wallis and Futuna, French overseas collectivity, ITU country code

People

Given named

• Wal (given name)
• Niels Wal Hansen (1892–1973), Dutch sailer

Surnamed

• Peter Chol Wal, South Sudanese politician
• Priya Wal (born 1985), Indian actress
• Van der Wal (surname), a Dutch surname which can also be derived as Wal

Fictional characters

• Wallace Cadwallader "Wal" Footrot, the main character in the Footrot Flats comic strip
• Wal Rus, a Marvel Comics character, a fictional anthropomorphic walrus

Brands, groups, organizations, enterprises

• Wal (bass), a brand of electric bass guitars, founded by Ian Waller and Pete Stevens
• Wal-Mart Stores, a multi-national retailer founded by Sam Walton
• Western Alliance Bancorporation, a regional bank holding company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona

Technology

• Wide-angle lens, photographic equipment
• Write-ahead logging, a database management technique

Transport

• Wallops Flight Facility (IATA: WAL), Virginia, USA
• Walton-on-Thames railway station (National Rail: WAL), Surrey, England
• World Atlantic Airlines (ICAO: WAL), an airline based in Miami, Florida, USA

Other uses

• Wolaitta language (ISO 639: wal)
• Dornier Do J Wal ("whale"), a German flying boat of the 1920s
• Weighted-average life, in loan repayment timing

See also

• Dornier Do R Super Wal (superwhale), a German flying boat airliner
• All pages with titles beginning with Wal
• All pages with titles containing Wal
• All pages with titles beginning with WAL
• Wall (disambiguation)
• Walle (name)

• Disambiguation pages