Bale

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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

• Bale, California, in Napa County (U.S.)
• Bale (Konjic), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bale, Mali
• Bale, Norfolk, in England
• Bale, Poland
• Balé Province, Burkina Faso
• Bale (town), a small town in Croatia
• Basel, the Swiss city, whose French name is Bâle
• Bali, Indonesia

Ethiopia

• Bale Zone in Oromia Region, Ethiopia
  • Bale Mountains
  • Bale Mountains National Park
• Bale Province, Ethiopia, a former province
  • Bale Revolt a rebellion in the former Bale Province

People

• Christian Bale (b. 1974), English actor born in Wales
• David Bale (1941–2003), South African entrepreneur
• Edward Turner Bale (1810–1849), English physician
• Elvin Bale, English circus daredevil
• Ernest Bale (1878–1952), English cricketer
• Gareth Bale (b. 1989), Welsh footballer, from Cardiff
• Sir Henry Bale, Chief Justice, Colony of Natal
• John Bale (1496–1563), English churchman and playwright
• John Bale (baseball) (b. 1974), baseball player
• Lan Bale (b. 1969), former South African tennis player
• Qoriniasi Bale, Fijian lawyer and politician
• Sue Bale, British nursing researcher and administrator

See also

• Akar-Bale language
• Ba'al
• Bales