Bala may refer to:
Places
India
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Bala, India, a village in Allahabad, India
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Bala, Ahor, a village in the Jalore district of Rajasthan
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Bala, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
Romania
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Bala, Mehedinți, a commune in Mehedinţi County
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Băla ( hu, Bala), a commune in Mureș County
United States
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Bala, Kansas, an incorporated community in Riley County, Kansas
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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 sepa ...
, a conglomerate of the suburbs Bala and Cynwyd, Philadelphia
United Kingdom
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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 populatio ...
, a town in Wales
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Bala Lake
Bala Lake ( cy, Llyn Tegid ) is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee, Wales, 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 ...
, the largest natural lake in Wales
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Bala Series of geologic beds in Bala, Wales
Elsewhere
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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
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Bala Aerodrome, located adjacent to Bala, Ontario, Canada
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Bala, Nepal, a Village Development Committee in Sankhuwasabha District in northeastern Nepal
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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 ...
, Palestine, a town near Tulkarm in the West Bank
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Bala, Russia, a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
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Bala, Senegal, a town in Tambacounda Region
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Balâ, Ankara, a town and district of Ankara Province in Turkey
People
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Bala (name)
Religion
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The Five Strengths, aka ''bala'', the spiritual powers possessed by a Buddha or bodhisattva
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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
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Bala Ganapati, an aspect of the Hindu god Ganesha
Films
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''Bala'' (1976 film), a documentary by Satyajit Ray about the Bharatanatyam dancer Balasaraswati
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''Bala'' (2002 film), an Indian Tamil film starring Shaam and Meera Jasmine
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''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 thei ...
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Bala (band), 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 conc ...
'' comic book by Virgin Comics
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Bala language, Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Bala shark (''Balantiocheilos melanopterus''), a semi-aggressive minnow from Southeast Asia, somewhat common as an aquarium fish
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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''), especially when used in Ayurvedic medicine
See also
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Balla (disambiguation)
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Bala station (disambiguation), stations of the name
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Bala Hissar (disambiguation), places of the name
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