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Bala

Bala is a picturesque town of 2,000 people on the shores of Lake Bala in , . It lies at the south-eastern edge of the . Excellent national centre for white water rafting and canoeing nearby.
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  • Type: Town with 1,970 residents
  • Description: market town and community in Gwynedd, Wales
  • Also known as: “Bala, Gwynedd” and “Y Bala”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bala Lake and Maes Tegid.

Lake
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, or Llyn Tegid, is a large freshwater glacial lake in , Wales. The , which has its source on the slopes of in the mountains of , feeds the 3.7-by-0.5-mile lake.

Stadium
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a community playing field in Bala, . It is currently used mostly for football matches, and is the home ground of Bala Town. The stadium holds 3,000 people, with 504 seats and has been used by Bala Town since the 1950s.

Railway station
Photo: Ken Crosby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bala is the current terminus of the heritage Bala Lake Railway, in , Wales, since 1976. The site was formerly the location of the Bala Lake Halt railway station, a former station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Frongoch and Llangywer.

Village
Photo: Ralph Rawlinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village located in , . It lies close to the market town of Bala, on the A4212 road. It was the home of the , used to hold German prisoners-of-war during First World War, and then Irish Republican prisoners from the 1916 Rising. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Bala.

Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a community near Bala, , Wales. It is in the historic county of , and is located on the south side of . In 2011 the population of was 260, with 67.2% of them able to speak Welsh. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Bala.

Village
Photo: Tamara Kwan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , near the town of Bala, in the community of .

Bala

Latitude
52.9112° or 52° 54′ 40″ north
Longitude
-3.5995° or 3° 35′ 58″ west
Population
1,970
Elevation
551 feet (168 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BAA
Open location code
9C4RWC62+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29761584
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656615
Wiki­data ID
Q171923
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Bala” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بالا”
  • Asturian: “Y Bala”
  • Basque: “Bala”
  • Belarusian: “Бала (Гвінэд)”
  • Belarusian: “Бала”
  • Bengali: “বালা”
  • Breton: “Y Bala”
  • Bulgarian: “Бала”
  • Catalan: “Y Bala”
  • Cebuano: “Bala”
  • Chinese: “巴拉”
  • Cornish: “Y Bala”
  • Dutch: “Bala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالا”
  • French: “Bala”
  • German: “Bala”
  • Greek: “Μπάλα”
  • Gujarati: “બાલા”
  • Irish: “Y Bala”
  • Italian: “Bala”
  • Japanese: “バラ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಲಾ”
  • Korean: “발라”
  • Lithuanian: “Bala”
  • Northern Sami: “Y Bala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Y Bala”
  • Norwegian: “Bala”
  • Persian: “بالا، گوینز”
  • Polish: “Bala”
  • Portuguese: “Bala”
  • Russian: “Бала”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Y Bala”
  • Spanish: “Bala”
  • Swedish: “Bala, Wales”
  • Swedish: “Bala”
  • Tamil: “பாலா”
  • Telugu: “బాలా”
  • Urdu: “بلا”
  • Welsh: “Bala”
  • Welsh: “y Bala”
  • Welsh: “Y Bala”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bala”. Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.