Bala may refer to:

Places

India

Bala, India Bala is a village in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous demo ...

, a village in Allahabad, India *

Bala, Ahor Bala is a village and a Gram Panchayat in the Ahore Tehsil of Jalore district of Rajasthan in northwest India. Geography Bala is located in Ahor, Tehsil in the Jalore Jalore () ( ISO 15919 : ''Jālora'' ), also known as '' Granite Cit ...

, a village in the Jalore district of Rajasthan *

Bala, Raebareli Bala is a village in Harchandpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 4,123, in 801 households. It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities. The 1961 census recorded Bala as comprising 8 ha ...

, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India

Romania

Bala, Mehedinți Bala is a commune located in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania. It is composed of fifteen villages: Bala, Bala de Sus, Brateșul, Brativoești, Câmpu Mare, Cârșu, Comănești, Crainici, Dâlma, Iupca, Molani, Rudina, Runcușoru, Sărdănești ...

, a commune in Mehedinţi County *

Băla Băla ( Hungarian: ''Bala''; german: Bolla) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Băla and Ercea (''Nagyercse''; ''Groß-Ertschen''). See also *List of Hungarian exonyms (Mureș County) This is ...

( hu, Bala), a commune in Mureș County

United States

Bala, Kansas Bala is an unincorporated community in Bala Township, Riley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 29. History Bala settled about 1862. It was a shipping point on the Chicago, ...

, an incorporated community in Riley County, Kansas *

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Bala Cynwyd ( ) is a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. It is located on the Philadelphia Main Line in Southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia at U.S. Route 1 (City Avenue). It was originally two separa ...

, a conglomerate of the suburbs Bala and Cynwyd, Philadelphia

United Kingdom

Bala, Gwynedd Bala ( cy, Y Bala) is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales. Formerly an urban district, Bala lies in the historic county of Merionethshire, at the north end of Bala Lake ( cy, Llyn Tegid). According to the 2021 Census, Bala had a population ...

, a town in Wales **

Bala Lake Bala Lake ( cy, Llyn Tegid ) is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee, which has its source on the slopes of Dduallt in the mountains of Snowdonia, feeds the long by wide lake. It was the largest natural body o ...

, the largest natural lake in Wales **

Bala Series In geology, Caradoc Series is the name introduced by Roderick Murchison in 1839 for the sandstone series of Caer Caradoc in Shropshire, England. It is the fifth of the six subdivisions (in ascending order) of the Ordovician System, comprising all t ...

of geologic beds in Bala, Wales

Elsewhere

Bala, Ontario Bala is a compact rural community in the township municipality of Muskoka Lakes, District Municipality of Muskoka in Central Ontario, Canada. It is well-known for the Bala Falls, the source of the Moon River, which flows from Lake Muskoka to the ...

, a town in Canada **

Bala Aerodrome Bala Aerodrome is located adjacent to Bala, Ontario, Canada. See also *List of airports in the Bala, Ontario area The following active airports serve the area around Bala, Ontario, Canada: See also * List of airports in the Bracebridge ...

, located adjacent to Bala, Ontario, Canada * Bala, Nepal, a Village Development Committee in Sankhuwasabha District in northeastern Nepal *

Bal'a Bal'a ( ar, بلعة) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate, located approximately nine kilometers northeast of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank and three kilometers away from the highway connecting Tulkarm with Nablus. According to th ...

, Palestine, a town near Tulkarm in the West Bank * Bala, Russia, a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia *

Bala, Senegal Bala is a town in Tambacounda Region, eastern Senegal. It has a station on the main line of the Dakar–Niger Railway. See also * Transport in Senegal * Railway stations in Senegal List of Railway stations in Senegal include: Maps UN Map ...

, a town in Tambacounda Region *

Balâ, Ankara Bala is a town and district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 67 km south-east of the city of Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central ...

, a town and district of Ankara Province in Turkey

People

Bala (name) Bala is a given name and surname. People with that name include: Nickname * A. Balasubramaniam (born 1971), Indian sculptor, painter, printmaker, and installation artist * Bala (director), South Indian film director Given name * Bala Achi (195 ...

Religion

* The Five Strengths, aka ''bala'', the spiritual powers possessed by a Buddha or bodhisattva *

Bala Tripurasundari Devi Bala Tripurasundari, also known as Bala-Ambika, is the younger aspect of the Hindu Goddess Tripura Sundari one of the ten forms of the Supreme Goddess Mahadevi. There are 64 forms of Devi Bala and her Bala Tripurasundari form is widely worshi ...

, Hindu female goddess, represented as a small child *

Bala Ganapati Bala Ganapati ( sa, बाल-गणपति, , literally "child Ganapati") is an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha (Ganapati), the elephant-headed of wisdom and fortune, depicted as a child. There are few portrayals of Ganesha as a small boy car ...

, an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha

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

*Princess Bala, a character in the 1998 animated film ''

Antz ''Antz'' is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (in its debut film) and Pacific Data Images and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their fe ...

'' *

Bala (band) Bala is a Galician stoner rock/grunge band consists of Anxela Baltar from A Coruña A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in ...

, a Galician stoner rock/grunge band *Bala, a comic book character from the ''

Devi Devī (; Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess'; the masculine form is ''deva''. ''Devi'' and ''deva'' mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are also gender-specific terms for a deity in Hinduism. The conce ...

'' comic book by Virgin Comics *

Bala language Bala (''Lobala'') is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to Maho (2009), it includes Boko (''Iboko''). Distribution and status Bala is spoken in the northwest corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo west ...

, Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Bala shark The bala shark, ''Balantiocheilos melanopterus'', also known as the tricolor shark, tricolor sharkminnow, silver shark, or shark minnow, is a fish of the family Cyprinidae, and is one of the two species in the genus ''Balantiocheilos''. This spec ...

(''Balantiocheilos melanopterus''), a semi-aggressive minnow from Southeast Asia, somewhat common as an aquarium fish *

Bala taxation Bala, Sumerian for "exchange", is the method by which the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia collected goods such as livestock, grain, labor and craft products from its provinces. Individuals of all rank were expected to contribute to this system. Thes ...

, a system used in the Ur III dynasty of Mesopotamia *Bala, a common name for the flowering plant Country Mallow (''

Sida cordifolia ''Sida cordifolia'' ('ilima, flannel weed, bala, country mallow or heart-leaf sida) is a perennial subshrub of the mallow family Malvaceae native to India. It has naturalized throughout the world, and is considered an invasive weed in Africa, Au ...

''), especially when used in Ayurvedic medicine