Asia

• Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
• Yala is the dry season (April to Sept.) in Sri Lanka. Its counterpart is Maha, the wet season.
• Yala Province, Thailand

*Yala, Thailand, its administrative capital

*Amphoe Mueang Yala, capital district of the province of Yala

Africa

• Yala language, an African language spoken in the Niger-Congo area
• Yala, Kenya, a town in Western Kenya
• Yala, a goddess in the CrossGen comicbook series The First.
• Yala Peninsula in Western Sahara
• Yala, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Cross River State.