JA

JA

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Jamaica.

   Synonym: JM (for general use)

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Jamaica is JM.

JA

1. Abbreviation of Japan: a country in East Asia (NATO country code).
2. Abbreviation of Jamaica: a country in the Caribbean.
3. Abbreviation of Jalisco: a state of Mexico.
4. Abbreviation of Jambi: a province of Indonesia.
5. Abbreviation of Jammu and Kashmir: a union territory of India.
6. (law, postnominal) Abbreviation of judge or justice of a court of appeal.

Borrowed from German JA (“Junge Alternative für Deutschland”).

JA

1. (German politics) Young Alternative for Germany.
   • 2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In a statement in April, the intelligence agency deemed the AfD’s youth wing, the Young Alternative for Germany or Junge Alternative für Deutschland (JA), as “clearly xenophobic” and “propagating a racial concept of society based on basic biological assumptions.” It deemed the group was likely to adopt “non-peaceful behavior” towards people perceived as foreign. […] According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.

• AJ

JA f (proper noun, genitive JA)

1. (German politics) initialism of Junge Alternative für Deutschland.