Bara

Bara or Barah may refer to:

People

• Bara people, in central southern Madagascar
• Bara (name), a given name and surname
• Bora (surname), Assamese surname
• Tetsuo Sakaibara, Japanese musician and former member of the noise group Merzbow

Places

Africa

• Bara, Gao Region, a village and rural commune in Mali
• Bara, Nigeria, a town in Oyo State, Nigeria
• Barah, Sudan, a town in Kurdufan, Sudan

Asia

• Bara, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Bara, Syria, a "dead city" and present day village
• Bara District, Nepal
• Bara Gewog, a former gewog (village block) of Samtse District, Bhutan

India

• Bara, Punjab, village and archeological site of the Indus Valley Civilization in Punjab
• Bara, Allahabad, a town in Uttar Pradesh
• Bara, Dildarnagar, a village in Uttar Pradesh

Pakistan

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

Europe

• Bära, a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Bara, East Lothian, a parish in Scotland
• Bara, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
• Bara, Trebišov, a village in Trebišov District, Slovakia
• Bara Lake, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Romania

• Bara, Timiș, a commune in Timiş County
• Bâra, a commune in Neamţ County
• Bâra, a village in Bereni Commune, Mureş County
• Bâra, a village in Balta Doamnei Commune, Prahova County

Sweden

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

Other uses

• Bara (film), a 1980 Indian Kannada film
• Bara language (disambiguation), several languages
• Bara (drum), spherical hand drum with a gourd body, used in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire
• Bara (insect), a genus of insects in the family Tetrigidae called ground-hoppers
• Bara (genre), term for Japanese media, especially comics, aimed at gay men
• Vada (food) or Bara, savoury fritter-type snack from South India
• bara, one of the Chilean units of measurement used before 1848
• abbreviation of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa

See also

• Bara culture, strand of the Indus Valley Civilization in Bronze Age India