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Bala may refer to:

Films

• Bala (1976 film), an English-language dance documentary
• Bala (2002 film), a Tamil-language action film
• Bala (2019 film), a Hindi-language black comedy

Life forms

• Bala shark (Balantiocheilos melanopterus), a small freshwater fish of Southeast Asia
• Sida cordifolia (or bala), an Indian medicinal subshrub

People and characters

See also: § Religion

• Bala (name), list of people so named
• Princess Bala, from 1998 animated film Antz
• Bala, from the Devi comic book

Places

Africa

• Bala, Senegal

Asia

• Bal'a, West Bank, Palestine
• Bala, Ankara, Turkey
• Bala, Nepal
• Bala, Russia, a selo in Sakha Republic
• Bala, India, in Allahabad
• Bala, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Bala, Ahor, Rajasthan, India

Europe

• Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
  • Bala Lake, Wales' largest natural lake
  • Bala Series of geologic beds
• Bala, Mehedinți, Oltenia, Romania
• Băla (Hungarian: Bala), Mureș, Transylvania, Romania
• Rodopoli, former name Μπάλα - Bala, a municipal unit in Greece

North America

• Bala, Kansas, United States
• Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
• Bala, Ontario, Canada
  • Bala Aerodrome

Religion

• Five Strengths, or bala, in Buddhism
• Bala Tripurasundari, a Hindu child goddess
• Bala Ganapati, an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha
• Bala Kanda, the first book of Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic poem

Other uses

• Bala (band), a Galician stoner rock music group
• Bala language, spoken in the Congo
• Bala language (China), a possibly extinct Tungusic language
• Bala taxation, a system used in the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia

See also

• Bal (disambiguation)
• Balan (disambiguation)
• Balla (disambiguation)
• Bala station (disambiguation), stations of the name
• Bala Hissar (disambiguation), places of the name
• Bala Nagamma (disambiguation)