Vasa

Vasa may refer to:

• House of Vasa, a medieval Swedish noble family, the royal house of Sweden 1523–1654 and of Poland 1587–1668
  • Vasa (ship), a Swedish warship that sank in 1628, since restored
  • Vasa Museum, Stockholm, where the restored ship is currently displayed
  • Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood
  • Vasa Order of America, a Swedish-American Fraternal Order
• vasa gene, a gene that is essential for germ cell development and was first identified in Drosophila melanogaster

In places:

• Vasa (Rajasthan), a village in Sirohi District, Rajashthan, India
• Vaşa, Azerbaijan
• Väsa, a village in Dalarna, Sweden
• Vasa County, a historic county in modern-day Finland
• Vasa Park, New Jersey
• Vasa Township, Minnesota
• Wausa, Nebraska, named after Gustav Vasa, but with a slightly different spelling
• Vasa Loch, a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands
• Vasa, the Swedish name for the Finnish city of Vaasa
• Vasa Kellakiou, Cyprus
• Vasa Koilaniou, Cyprus

In anatomy:

• Vasa nervorum, small arteries that provide blood supply to peripheral nerves
• Vasa praevia, an obstetric complication
• Vasa recta, capillaries within the kidneys
• Vasa recta (intestines), capillaries surrounding the intestines
• Vasa vasorum, capillaries that supply the outer tissues of large blood vessels

In other uses:

• Vása, the sun in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional cosmology
• Vasa IFK, a Finnish football club
• Vasa parrot, a genus of parrots from Madagascar
• Vasaloppet, a Swedish ski race