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League can mean:

• League (unit), an obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk: usually equal to three miles.
  However, the Roman league was half this length: 1.5 Roman miles (7500 Roman feet or 2.22 km)
• League (Inner Mongolia), an administrative division in Inner Mongolia
• The sport of Rugby league, which is sometimes referred to as just "league"
• League Collegiate Wear, a rapidly-growing Philly-100 college apparel company
• La Lega, an Italian popular song

League is also a collective entity, for example:

A group of individuals

• League of Women Voters
• A League of Their Own - a 1992 film which tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
• The Red-Headed League, a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The League of Gentlemen, a 1959 movie directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins, et al
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill (or the film based upon same).
• The League, a Paris-based rock band
• The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
• The Justice League of America, a popular American superhero team and comic book published by DC Comics
• League of Spiritual Discovery, a Baltimore-based arts and politics group
• League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, a regional autonomist political party in Serbia
• League of Small Superpowers (LOSS) is a Pink Team alliance of CyberNations.

A sports competition in which each team plays all the other teams (first used by the National League in 1876)

• Sports league
• League system
• Fantasy Basketball The League

Countries with a common purpose, see league (politics)

• League of Nations
• Hanseatic League
• Peloponnesian League
• Catholic League
• Arab League

• League of Nobles in the Dune prequel series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Terran League a loose confederation of planets populated by those descended mainly from old Earth Asians, and opposed to the Terran Federation and later the Terran Empire in David Weber's book In Fury Born.
• Solarian League - a fictional star nation in David Weber's Honorverse. The League is a huge, politically "neutral" superpower (if not in reality the galaxy's sole hyperpower) that consists of the oldest worlds settled by humanity. It is also by far the most powerful and influential star nation in the known galaxy. Officially, a total of 1,784 worlds are members of the Solarian League, plus hundreds more considered "protectorates" of the League. It is estimated that a total of two-thirds of the human population lives in the League and League-controlled worlds

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