Bara may refer to:

Names

* Bara (name), a given name and surname *

Barah (surname) Bora, also spelled Borah or Barah, is an Assamese surname used commonly throughout Assam. Historical usage Originally, the ''Bora'' surname was used as a high military position/title in the Chutia Kingdom held by individuals from the ''Buruk'' cla ...

or Borah, an Assamese surname

Places

Bhutan

Bara Gewog Bara Gewog is a former gewog (village block) of Samtse District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 186 square kilometres and contains 474 households. Bara Gewog comprises part of Sipsu Dungkhag (sub-district), together with Tendu, Biru, Lehereni ...

, a former village block of Samtse District

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bara Lake Natural lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina take , which is a little more than 0.12% of the total surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Buško Blato is the largest lake, its size being 56.7 km2. Blidinje lake is the largest natural mountain ...

* Bara, Bosanski Petrovac, a village in Bosanski Petrovac municipality

Germany

* Bära, a river in Baden-Württemberg

India

Bara, Punjab Bara is a village in Rupnagar District in Punjab, India. The village has mainly two Jatt Sikh surnames Chakkal and Heer and lies on the Rupnagar-Morinda Road at the left bank of a seasonal monsoon rivulet called Budki Nadi, about four kilomete ...

, a village and archaeological site *

Bara, Allahabad Bara is a town and a nagar panchayat in Allahabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated sta ...

, a town in Uttar Pradesh *

Bara, Dildarnagar Bara is a village of Dildarnagar Kamsar in Ghazipur District, Ghazipur district in the India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated on the banks of the holy river Ganges. The majority of the residents are Muslims, Muslim (Pashtuns, Pat ...

, a village in Uttar Pradesh * Bara, North 24 Parganas, a census town in West Bengal *

Bara, Raebareli Bara is a village in Chhatoh block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 13 km from Salon, the tehsil headquarters. As of 2011, Bara has a population of 3,578 people, in 708 households. It has two primary schools an ...

, a village in Uttar Pradesh

Iran

Bara, Iran Baba ( fa, بابا, also Romanized as Bābā; also known as Bāra, Bārah, Bāveh, and Bāwa) is a village in Gol-e Cheydar Rural District, Sarshiv District, Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58, ...

, a village in Kurdistan Province

Mali

Bara, Gao Region Bara is a rural commune and village in the Cercle of Ansongo in the Gao Region of south-eastern Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, i ...

, a village and rural commune

Nepal

* Bara District, Nepal

Nigeria

Bara, Nigeria Bara is a town in Oyo State of southwestern Nigeria. It is located just west of the Oko-Iressa-Aadu Road. The majority of the people are members of the Yoruba ethnic group. Most of the people are employed in agriculture with locally produced y ...

, a town in Oyo State

Pakistan

Bara, FATA Bara ( ps, باړه; ur, ) is a town located in Bara Tehsil in Khyber Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Kohat is located to the south while Peshawar is located to the north of Bara. Overview Bara is also the name of the local administrative divis ...

, a town in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas * Bara Tehsil, a district in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas * Bara River, Khyber Agency

Poland

Bara, West Pomeranian Voivodeship Bara (german: Bahrfelde) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chojna __NOTOC__ Gmina Chojna is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Gryfino County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland, on the Ge ...

, Poland

Romania

* Bara, Timiș, a commune in Timiș County *

Bâra Bâra is a commune in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Bâra, Negrești, and Rediu. In Rediu, in the summer of 2014, the Maryam Mosque for Romanian converts to Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإس� ...

, a commune in Neamţ County * Bâra, a village in Bereni Commune, Mureș County * Bâra, a village in Balta Doamnei Commune, Prahova County

Slovakia

* Bara, Trebišov, a village in Trebišov District, Slovakia

Spain

* Bara, Aragon, a village in Sabiñánigo, Spain

Sudan

* Barah, Sudan, a town in Kurdufan, Sudan

Sweden

* Bara Hundred, a locality in Scania * Bara, Scania, Svedala Municipality * Bara, part of Hörsne-Bara, Gotland

Syria

* Bara, Syria, a village

UK

* Bara, East Lothian, a parish in Scotland

Other uses

* Bara, a former Chilean unit of measurement * Bara or Tetsuo Sakaibara, Japanese musician and former member of Merzbow * Bara, a unit of absolute pressure; see bar (unit) * '' Bara'', a painting by Jean Jacques Henner *

Bara (drum) The ''bara'' ( bm, ߓߊ߬ߙߊ, italics=no; also called ''bendré'') is a spherical hand drum with a body made from a dried gourd or calabash, used in West Africa (primarily Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali). Its single head is made of ...

, a drum used in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire * ''Bara'' (film), a 1980 Indian Kannada-language film * Bara (genre), a genre of Japanese media, especially comics, aimed at gay men * ''Bara'' (insect), a genus of insects in the family Tetrigidae called ground-hoppers * Bara people, a people of central southern Madagascar * Bara Rifles, a Pakistani paramilitary regiment *

British Automation and Robot Association The British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) is a UK trade membership organisation headquartered in Wallington, Surrey. History BARA was founded as the British Robot Association (BRA) in 1977. As a trade and academic membership associ ...

* Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital or Bara, a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa * Vada (food) or Bara, a savoury fritter-type snack from South India