Nara

Nara, Na-ra or NARA may refer to:

Places and jurisdictions

• Nara, Nara, capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan
  • Nara Prefecture, prefecture of Japan
• Nara (see), an ancient Roman city and bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see, near modern Bir El Hafey (Tunisia)
• Nara, Attock, village in Attock, Pakistan
• Nara, Jhelum, village in Jhelum, Pakistan
• Nara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan
• Nara, Mali, city in Mali
• Nara River, river in Russia
• Nara Burnu, a cape in Turkey
• Nara, Osaka, municipality in Osaka Prefecture, Japan

People and society

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

People with the name Nara

Given name

• Jang Na-ra (born 1981), South Korean female singer
• Kwon Nara (born 1991), South Korean female singer
• Nara Leão (1942 - 1989), Brazilian female singer
• Nara Lokesh (born 1983), Indian male politician

Surname

• Erika Nara, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
• Kurumi Nara (born 1991), Japanese female tennis player
• Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), Japanese male artist

Arts and mythology

• 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

Other uses

• Nara period, period of Japanese history, named after the above (former capital) city
• Nara (ship), (楢 / なら, "oak"), several Japanese ships
• Acanthosicyos horridus or !nara, melon species of the Namib desert
• Naenara, official web portal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
• Tarucus nara, a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family

NARA as an acronym

• National Archives and Records Administration, an agency of the U.S. government
• National Alien Registration Authority, a defunct agency of the Government of Pakistan
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