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Ban may refer to:
- Ban (law), a decree that prohibits something, sometimes a form of censorship
- The imperial ban, a form of outlawry in the medieval Holy Roman Empire
- Herem (censure), usually translated as the Ban, a form of excommunication in Judaism
- Herem (war or property), a command to destroy in the Hebrew Bible
- Ban (title), a noble title which was used in south-eastern Europe (Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary)
- Ban (information), a logarithmic unit of information or weight of evidence
- Ban (mythology), a king from Arthurian legend
- Ban (deodorant), a brand name deodorant & antiperspirant
- Ban (medieval), a Frankish institution
- Ban (plural: bani), a coin, the 1/100 part of a Romanian leu or Moldovan leu
- Muban, or Ban for short, the lowest administrative subdivision of Thailand
- Another name for the paiban, a clapper used in Chinese music
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- Ban, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso
- Bans, Jura, a commune in eastern France
- Ban, Murree, a village and UC of Rawalpindi District, Pakistan
- Ban, an alternate name of Ben, Iran, a city in Iran
- Ban, a village in Bănişor Commune, Sălaj County, Romania
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