# Nara

Nara or Na-ra may refer to:

## Places and jurisdictions

* Nara Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
** Nara (city), the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan
* Nara, an ancient Roman city in Tunisia, now called Bir El Hafey
* Nara, Attock, a village in Attock, Pakistan
* Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum, Pakistan
* Nara Matore, a village in Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan
* Nara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan
* Nara, Mali, a town in Mali
* Nara Basin, a valley in Nara Prefecture, Japan
* Nara Canal, an excavated waterway in Sindh province, Pakistan
* Nara Canal, a paleochannel of the Indus and the Hakra, partly used by the Nara Canal
* Nara (Oka), a river in Russia
* Nara River (India), a river in Gujarat, India
* Nara Burnu, a cape in Turkey

## People and society

* Nara people, a Nilotic ethnic minority inhabiting Eritrea
* Nara language, the mother tongue of the Nara people
* Nara clan, a Manchu clan in China
* National Radical Camp or Nara Party, several Polish nationalist groups

## People with the name Nara
### Given name

* Nara Nath Acharya (1906–1988), Nepalese poet
* Nara Apaya, king of the Mrauk-U Dynasty of Arakan
* Nara Bahadur Bista, Nepalese politician
* Nara Bahadur Dahal (born 1960), Nepalese long-distance runner
* Nara Falcón (born 1981), Mexican synchronized swimmer
* Jang Na-ra (born 1981), South Korean female singer
* Nara Bahadur Karmacharya, Nepalese politician
* Nara Kollery (died 2015), Indian sound recordist
* Kwon Nara (born 1991), South Korean female singer
* Nara Leão (1942–1989), Brazilian female singer
* Nara Lokesh (born 1983), Indian male politician
* Nara Rohit (born 1984), Indian film actor and producer
* Nara Bhupal Shah (1697–1743), king of the Gorkha state in Nepal
* Nara Smith (born 2001), fashion model and internet personality

### Surname

* Erika Nara, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
* Kurumi Nara (born 1991), Japanese tennis player
* Rao Nara (1420–1487), crown Prince of Nadol, India
* Setsuo Nara (奈良 節雄, born 1936), Japanese basketball player
* Takeji Nara (1868–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
* Tatsuki Nara (born 1993), Japanese footballer
* Tatunca Nara (born 1941), German-Brazilian jungle guide who invented the lost city of Akakor
* Tōru Nara, Japanese voice actor
* Wanda Nara (born 1986), Argentine media personality and football agent
* Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), Japanese artist
* Zaira Nara (born 1988), Argentine model and TV host
* Ula Nara Duoqimuli, Empress consort of Qing dynasty Yongzheng Emperor

## Arts and mythology

* Nara (Arjuna), Arjuna in his previous birth was Nara
* Nara (album), by Emily Wurramara
* Nara (comics), a fictional character from Marvel Comics
* One of the twins Nara-Narayana in Hindu mythology
* "Nara", song from the album Unearthed by E.S. Posthumus
* Shikamaru Nara, fictional character in the manga and anime series Naruto
* "Nara", "Arrival In Nara" and "Leaving Nara", songs from the 2014 album This Is All Yours by alt-J
* "Nara", setting of the children's television series Waybuloo

## Other uses

* Nara Hotel, a hotel in Nara, Japan
* Nara Station, a railway station in Nara, Japan
* Nara Television, a Japanese television and radio broadcaster headquartered in Nara, Japan
* Nara University, a private university in Misasagi-cho, Nara, Japan
* Nara Women's University, a national university in Nara, Japan
* Nara period, period of Japanese history, named after the former capital city
* Japanese ship Nara, (楢 / なら, "oak"), several Japanese ships
* Nara plant (Acanthosicyos horridus), a melon species of the Namib desert

## NARA as an acronym

NARA may stand for:
* National Alien Registration Authority, a defunct agency of the Government of Pakistan
* National Amateur Rowing Association, the governing body for rowing by working men in Britain prior to 1956
* National Archives and Records Administration, an agency of the U.S. government
* Neale Analysis of Reading Ability, an assessment of comprehension and word reading accuracy