Balanda Explained

Balanda may refer to:

Places

• Kalininsk, a town in Kalininsky District of Saratov Oblast, Russia, named Balanda until 1962
• Balanda River in Russia, a tributary of the Medveditsa

People

• Balanda Boor people, an ethnic group in South Sudan
• Balanda Bviri people, an ethnic group in South Sudan
• Pierre Bertran de Balanda (1887–1946), French Olympic horse rider

Other uses

• Balanda, an English word of Malay origin meaning a white person or European, used by Yolngu people in Northern Australia
• Balanda, another term for the native vinta boat of the Philippines
• Balanda, a term commonly associated with inedible soup, served to prisoners as the main diet of both the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet GULAG labour camps