General

• Bala - In general, in many Indian languages it stands for 'The Young'

Places

• Bala (biblical), another name for Segor or Zoara, one of the Old Testament "Cities of the Plain"
• Bala, Ankara, a suburb and a metropolitan district of Ankara, Turkey's capital.
• Bala, Greece, a suburb of Athens, it is also a Modern Greek word for ball.
• Bala, Mehedinţi, a commune in Mehedinţi County, Romania
• Băla, a commune in Mureş County, Romania
• Bala, Senegal
• Bala, Ontario, Canada.
• Bala, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom.
• Bala Lake, the largest natural lake in Wales.
• Bala Series of geologic beds in Bala, Wales.
• Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a conglomerate of the suburbs Bala and Cynwyd of Philadelphia
• Bala, India, a small village near Dasua City, Distt-Hoshiarpur, Punjab (India).
• Bal'a, Palestine, a town near Tulkarm in the West Bank

Religion

• Bala, the spiritual powers possessed by a Buddha or bodhisattva.
• Bala (strength), attribute of the Hindu god Vishnu

People

• Bala (clan), a Jatt Sikh surname.
• Bala (actor), a South Indian film actor
• Bala (director), a south Indian film director.
• Krystian Bala, convicted Polish murderer and author

Other

• Bala shark (Balantiocheilos melanopterus), a semi-aggressive minnow from Southeast Asia, somewhat common as an aquarium fish.
• A common name for Country Mallow (Sida cordifolia), especially when used as an ayurvedic medicine
• Bala (film), a documentary by Satyajit Ray