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

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.