Bala

Bala may refer to:

Places

• Bala, Ontario, Canada
• Bala, India, a village in Allahabad, India
• Bala, Nepal, a Village Development Committee in Sankhuwasabha District in northeastern Nepal
• Bal'a, Palestine, a town near Tulkarm in the West Bank
• Bala, Mehedinți, a commune in Mehedinţi County, Romania
• Băla (Hungarian: Bala), a commune in Mureş County, Romania
• Bala, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in the Sakha Republic, Russia
• Bala, Senegal
• Bala (South Africa), a place in the Mbizana Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Bala, Kabang, in Yala Province, Thailand
• Balâ, Ankara, a town and district of Ankara Province in Turkey
• Bala, Kansas, an incorporated community in Riley County, Kansas in the United States
• Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a conglomerate of the suburbs Bala and Cynwyd of Philadelphia, United States
• Bala, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
  • Bala Lake, the largest natural lake in Wales
  • Bala Series of geologic beds in Bala, Wales

People

• Bala (name)

Religion

• The Five Strengths, aka bala, the spiritual powers possessed by a Buddha or bodhisattva
• Bala Tripurasundari, Hindu female goddess, represented as a small child

Films

• Bala (1976 film), a documentary by Satyajit Ray about the Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati
• Bala (2002 film), an Indian Tamil film starring Shaam and Meera Jasmine
• Bala (2019 film), an Indian Hindi film starring Ayushmann Khurana, Bhumi Pednekar and Yami Gautam

Other

• Bala (band), a Galician stoner rock/grunge band
• Bala (comics), a comic book character from the Devi comic book by Virgin Comics
• Bala language, Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Bala shark (Balantiocheilos melanopterus), a semi-aggressive minnow from Southeast Asia, somewhat common as an aquarium fish
• Bala taxation, a system used in the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia
• Bala, a common name for the flowering plant Country Mallow (Sida cordifolia), especially when used in Ayurvedic medicine