Nara

Nara or Na-ra may refer to:

Japan

• Nara Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
  • Nara (city), the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan
  • Nara Basin, a valley in Nara Prefecture

Pakistan

• Nara, Attock, a village in Attock District, Punjab
• Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum District, Punjab
• Nara, Rawalpindi, a village in Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab
• Nara, Abbottabad, a Union Council of Abbottabad District, Khyber Pakhtunkwa
• Nara Canal, an excavated waterway in Sindh province, Pakistan

Elsewhere

• Nara, an ancient Roman city in Tunisia, now called Bir El Hafey
• Nara, Mali, a town in Mali
• 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 Jurchen-Manchu clan and surname
• National Radical Camp or Nara Party, several Polish nationalist groups

Given name

• Nara Nath Acharya (1906–1988), Nepalese poet
• Nara Apaya, king of the Mrauk-U Dynasty of Arakan
• Nara Bahadur Karmacharya, Nepalese politician
• Nara Kollery (died 2015), Indian sound recordist
• Nara Leão (1942–1989), Brazilian female singer
• Nara Bhupal Shah (1697–1743), king of the Gorkha state in Nepal

Surname

• Rao Nara (1420–1487), crown Prince of Nadol, India
• Takeji Nara (1868–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
• 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 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 Archives and Records Administration, an agency of the U.S. government
• Neale Analysis of Reading Ability, an assessment of comprehension and word reading accuracy

See also

• Narra (disambiguation)
• Naro (disambiguation)
• Nari (disambiguation)

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