Balaban may refer to:

Places

Azerbaijan

Balaxanı Balaxanı or Balakhani is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russians built the first oil-distilling factory he ...

, Azerbaijan, formerly Balaban

Iran

* Balaban, Khoy (Persian: , ''Balabān'') * Balaban, Piranshahr (Persian: , ''Bālābān'')

Syria

* Balaban ( ar, بلابان, Bālābān) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Turkey

* Balaban, Büyükorhan * Balaban, Eğil * Balaban, İzmit, a village in Kocaeli, Turkey

Other uses

* Balaban (instrument), a double reed wind instrument of the duduk family * Balaban (surname) *

Balaban and Katz Balaban and Katz Theater Corporation, or B&K, was a theatre corporation which owned a chain of motion picture theaters in Chicago and surrounding areas. It was founded by Barney Balaban (later long-time President of Paramount Pictures), his six ...