Bale may refer to:

• 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, for which the French name is Bâle
• Bali, Indonesia

Balé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Boucle du Mouhoun Region with Boromo as capital. Its area is 4,595 km², and in 2006 had a population of 213,897.

Basel ( or ; or less often used Basle; ; ; ; ) is Switzerland's third most populous city (behind Zürich and Geneva) with about 195,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. In 2014, the Basel agglomeration was the third largest in Switzerland with a population of 537,100 in 74 municipalities in Switzerland and an additional 53 in neighboring countries (municipal count as of 2000). The tri-national Basel metropolitan area has around 830,000 inhabitants in 226 municipalities.