title: BWA
text: # BWA
  
  BWA or Bwa may refer to:
  
  ## Codes
  
  * Botswana, ISO country code
  * BWIA West Indies Airways, ICAO code (predecessor of Caribbean Airlines)
  * Caribbean Airlines, ICAO code
  * Gautam Buddha Airport, IATA code
  
  ## Companies and organisations
  
  * Baptist World Alliance
  * Basketball Western Australia
  * Billiards World Cup Association, a former carom-governing body
  * Black Women's Action, a 1970s Australian activist group which later became the Roberta Sykes Foundation
  * Black Women's Alliance, former name of Third World Women's Alliance, an American Black feminist group established in 1970
  * Bosnian Wand Airlines, an airline of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
  ## Languages and people
  
  * Baboa people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Bwa
  * Bwa languages, a branch of the Gur languages spoken by the Bwa people of Burkina Faso and Mali
  * Bwa language, a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  * Bwa people of Burkina Faso and Mali
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Boil-water advisory, a public health advisory notice when water has been contaminated by pathogens
  * British West Africa, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Nigeria in the colonial era
  * Broadband Wireless Access, technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area
  * Burrows–Wheeler Aligner, a bioinformatic tool (algorithm) to map short nucleotide sequences to a reference genome
  * Red Bull Big Wave Africa, a surfing competition
  