Bale

Bale may refer to:

Packaging

• Cotton bale
• Hay or straw bale in farming, bound by a baler
• Paper bale, a unit of paper measurement equal to ten reams
• Wool bale, a standard-sized and -weighted pack of classed wool

Places

Ethiopia

• Bale Zone in Oromia Region, Ethiopia
  • Bale Mountains
• Bale Province, Ethiopia, a former province
• Sultanate of Bale, a former Muslim sultanate
• Bale, Poland

Elsewhere

• Bale, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village
• Bale, Croatia, a settlement and municipality
• Bale, Norfolk, England, a village
• Balé Province, Burkina Faso
• Basel, Switzerland, a city whose French name is Bâle

People

• Christian Bale (born 1974), English actor born in Wales
• David Bale (1941–2003), South African entrepreneur
• Edward Turner Bale (1810–1849), English physician
• Elvin Bale (born 1945), English circus daredevil
• Ernest Bale (1878–1952), English cricketer
• Gareth Bale (born 1989), Welsh footballer
• John Bale (1496–1563), English churchman and playwright
• John Bale (baseball) (born 1974), baseball player
• Lan Bale (born 1969), former South African tennis player
• Qoriniasi Bale (1941–2014), Fijian lawyer and politician
• Sue Bale, British nursing researcher and administrator
• John de Bale, Member of Parliament in 1302

Other uses

• Bale baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of England
• Bail (jewelry), also spelled bale, a component of certain types of jewelry, mostly necklaces
• A variant breed or type of Abyssinian horse

See also

• Bale shrew, a species endemic to the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia
• Akar-Bale language
• Ba'al
• Bail (disambiguation)
• Bales
• Baale (disambiguation)