title: Pala
text: # Pala
  
  Pala may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  ### Chad
  
  * Pala, Chad, the capital of the region of Mayo-Kebbi Ouest
  
  ### Estonia
  
  * Pala, Kose Parish, village in Kose Parish, Harju County
  * Pala, Kuusalu Parish, village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County
  * Pala, Järva County, village in Türi Parish, Järva County
  * Pala, Jõgeva County, village in Peipsiääre Parish, Jõgeva County
  * Pala Parish, former rural municipality in Jõgeva County
  
  ### India
  
  * Pala, Kerala, a town in the state of Kerala
  * Pala (State Assembly constituency)
  * Pala dynasty (disambiguation), several historical ruling groups
  * Pala Empire, an imperial power originating in Bengal during the Late Classical period
  * Pala Lake, English name for Palak Dil, a large lake in the state of Mizoram, Northeast India
  
  ### Turkey
  
  * Palā or Pala: a Bronze Age country in northern Anatolia,
     * where the extinct Palaic language (or Palaumnili), a part of the Indo-European language family, was spoken.
  
  ### United States
  
  * Pala, California, a small community in the Pala Indian Reservation within San Diego County
  * Pala Casino Resort and Spa, a casino located in Pala, California
  
  ### Fiction
  
  * Pala, a fictional island in Aldous Huxley's Island (Huxley novel)
  * Pala, a fictional town in Far Cry 2, a video game
  
  ## Other
  
  * Pala (album), the second album from Friendly Fires, released in 2011.
  * Pala (surname), a list of people with the surname Pala
  * Pala (sword), a short kind of Turkish sword or kilij
  * Pala Empire, an empire and dynasty on the Indian subcontinent, founded in 750
  * Pala Hamburger, a Chinese fast-food chain
  * Pala (folk art), a folk-theatre form, native to the Indian state Odisha, akin to jatra (Bengal)
  * PaLA or Pennsylvania Library Association
  * PALA or Partido Laborista Agrario, the Labor and Agrarian Party of Panama
  * PALA, the Poetics and Linguistics Association, an international academic association that supports studies of linguistic and literary styles
  * PALA, Presidential Active Lifestyle Award, one of the awards given as part of the President's Challenge in the United States
  