Vera may refer to:

Names

* Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *

Vera (given name) Vera (: ''Véra'', "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin ''vera'' meaning "true". In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. The name Vera has been used in the English speaking worl ...

, a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarragona

Places

Spain

Vera, Almería Vera is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomou ...

, a municipality in the province of Almería, Andalusia *

Vera de Bidasoa es, beratarra , population_note = , population_density_km2 = auto , blank_name_sec1 = Official language(s) , blank_info_sec1 = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, a municipality in the autonomous community of Navarra *

La Vera La Vera is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in Extremadura, western Spain. The largest town is Jaraíz de la Vera. Located at the feet of the Sierra de Gredos mountain range, in the Tiétar river valley, the comarca is economic ...

, a comarca in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura

United States

* Vera, Illinois, an unincorporated community *

Vera, Kansas Vera is a ghost town in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. It was located approximately 3.6 miles east of Paxico near Mill Creek, a tributary to the Kansas River. History Frederick L. Raymond was an early settler. When the Chicago, Kans ...

, a ghost town *

Vera, Missouri Vera is an unincorporated community in Pike County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located 5.5 miles northeast of Bowling Green along US Route 54 U.S. Route 54 (US 54) is an east–west United States Highway that runs northeast ...

, an unincorporated community *

Vera, Oklahoma Vera is a town in Washington County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 241 at the 2010 census. History Originally known as Evans, the town was renamed Vera in November 1899 and incorporated in 1904. Vera lies seven miles southeast of ...

, a town *

Vera, Texas Vera is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Knox County, Texas, United States. It lies on U.S. Highway 82 in the east-central portion of the county near the Baylor County, Texas, Baylor County line, and had an estimated population ...

, an unincorporated community *

Vera, Virginia Vera is an unincorporated community in Appomattox County, Virginia, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. ...

, an unincorporated community * Veradale, Washington, originally known as Vera, CDP

Elsewhere

Vera, Santa Fe Vera is a city in the north of the provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Argentina. It is the head town of the Vera Department and lies 256 km from the provincial capital (Santa Fe, Argentina, Santa Fe). It has a pop ...

, a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina *

Vera Department The Vera Department (in Spanish language, Spanish, ''Departamento Vera'') is an administrative subdivision (''Departments of Argentina, departamento'') of the provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located ...

, an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe *

Vera, Mato Grosso Vera is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Mato Grosso This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso (MT), located in the Central-West Region ...

, Brazil, a municipality *

Cape Vera Cape Vera is an uninhabited headland on Devon Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Protruding off the island's northwestern Colin Archer Peninsula, it faces Jones Sound. Often, a polynya forms in the Cardigan Strait, a waterway tha ...

, Nunavut, Canada, an uninhabited headland on Devon Island * Vera, Croatia, a village * *

Vera, Italy Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alpin ...

, a ''frazione'' in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto * Vera, Norway, a village in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway

Entertainment

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Vera; or, The Nihilists ''Vera; or, The Nihilists'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. A draft of the script was completed in 1880 and th ...

'', an 1882 play by Oscar Wilde * ''Vera'' (album), by Crooked Colours, 2017 * "Vera" (song), a 1979 song by Pink Floyd from ''The Wall'' * ''Vera'' (novel), a 1921 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim * ''Vera'' (film), a 1987 film about Sandra Mara Herzer *'' Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)'', Pulitzer-Prize winning biography on Véra Nabokov * ''Vera'' (TV series), a British detective television series

Other uses

Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA) was an early analog recording videotape format developed from 1952 by the BBC under project manager Dr Peter Axon. History In order to record high frequencies, a tape must move rapidly with respect to ...

, an early videotape recording system * VERA passive sensor, a Czech passive sensor system *

245 Vera Vera (minor planet designation: 245 Vera) is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by N. R. Pogson on February 6, 1885, in Madras, and was named at the suggestion of his wife. The asteroid is orbiting the Sun at a distance of with a perio ...

, an asteroid * Bitstream Vera, a family of typefaces *

Typhoon Vera Typhoon Vera, also known as the , was an exceptionally intense tropical cyclone that struck Japan in September 1959, becoming the strongest and deadliest typhoon on record to make landfall on the country as a Category 5 equivalent storm. Th ...

, a 1959 tropical cyclone *

The Vera Project The Vera Project, or VERA, is an all-ages, non-profit youth arts organization in Seattle, Washington. Overview Based on the Vera club in Groningen, Netherlands. The name Vera comes from the phrase Veri Et Recti Amici, which is Latin meaning "tr ...

, a music-based, non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington *

Vera Institute of Justice The Vera Institute of Justice, founded in 1961, is an independent nonprofit national research and policy organization in the United States. Based primarily in New York City, Vera also has offices in Washington, DC, and describes its goal as "to t ...

, a non-profit organization advocating for criminal justice reform *

Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator The Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, VERA, is a particle accelerator. It is operated by the University of Vienna and is dedicated to Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). It started operation in 1995. The system is a 3-MV Pelletron type ...

, a particle accelerator *Vera or Verawood, the wood of ''Bulnesia'' trees *

Vera (horse) Vera may refer to: Names *Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarrag ...

, winner of the 1883 Kentucky Oaks *

Vera (Groningen) Vera may refer to: Names *Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarrag ...

, a pop center in the city of Groningen, see music venues in the Netherlands *The VERA Project (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy), of the

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The (NAOJ) is an astronomical research organisation comprising several facilities in Japan, as well as an observatory in Hawaii and Chile. It was established in 1988 as an amalgamation of three existing research organizations - the Tokyo Astron ...

*"Veras" or "Vera Lynns", cockney rhyming slang for "skins" (cigarette

rolling paper Rolling paper is a specialty paper used for making cigarettes (commercially manufactured filter cigarettes and individually made roll-your-own cigarettes). Rolling papers are packs of several cigarette-size sheets, often folded inside a cardboard ...