According to Genesis, what was the name of the tower built at Babel?

According to Genesis, the tower built at Babel is called the Tower of Babel. The story appears in Genesis 11 and follows the Flood narrative, describing people who settled in the land of Shinar and began constructing a city and a tower reaching toward heaven.

The builders wanted to make a name for themselves and avoid being scattered across the earth. In the story, God confused their language, causing them to stop building and disperse. The place was therefore called Babel, a name associated in the biblical account with confusion of language.

The narrative explains the biblical origin of the diversity of human languages. It does not identify the tower with a surviving structure by a formal archaeological name. Later Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions developed additional interpretations of the story.

Babel is sometimes confused with Babylon, the later Mesopotamian city and empire. The names are closely related in biblical tradition, but the Genesis passage focuses on the tower-building episode and the division of languages.