Balaban may refer to:

Places

Azerbaijan

Balaxanı Balaxanı or Balakhani (Tat language (Caucasus), Tat: ''Balxuni'') is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russia ...

, Azerbaijan, formerly Balaban

Iran

Balaban, Khoy Balaban (, also Romanized as Bālābān) is a village in Aland Rural District, Safayyeh District, Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in ...

(Persian: , ''Balabān'') *

Balaban, Piranshahr Balaban (, also Romanized as Bālābān) is a village in Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District, Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is ...

(Persian: , ''Bālābān'')

Syria

* Balaban () is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Turkey

Balaban, Büyükorhan Balaban is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Büyükorhan, Bursa Province Bursa Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in Turkey along the Sea of ...

Balaban, Eğil Balaban () is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indige ...

Balaban, Kartepe Balaban is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Kartepe, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,326 (2022). Geography Balaban is located in the Samanlı Mountain range, on the slopes of Kartepe mountain. It is at the south ...

, a village in Kocaeli Province

Other uses

Balaban (instrument) The ''balaban'' or ''balaman'' () is a double- reed pipe with cylindrical bore, about in length, with eight finger holes and one thumb hole, which is played in the eastern part of Iran's historic Azerbaijan region as well as in the Republic of ...

, a double reed wind instrument of the duduk family *