Nara or Na-ra may refer to:

• Nara Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
  • Nara (city), the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan
• Nara, an ancient Roman city in Tunisia, now called Bir El Hafey
• Nara, Attock, a village in Attock, Pakistan
• Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum, Pakistan
• Nara Matore, a village in Kahuta Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan
• Nara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan
• Nara, Mali, a town in Mali
• Nara Basin, a valley in Nara Prefecture, Japan
• Nara Canal, an excavated waterway in Sindh province, Pakistan
• Nara Canal, a paleochannel of the Indus and the Hakra, partly used by the Nara Canal
• Nara (Oka), a river in Russia
• Nara River (India), a river in Gujarat, India
• Nara Burnu, a cape in Turkey

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

• Nara Nath Acharya (1906–1988), Nepalese poet
• Nara Apaya, king of the Mrauk-U Dynasty of Arakan
• Nara Bahadur Bista, Nepalese politician
• Nara Bahadur Dahal (born 1960), Nepalese long-distance runner
• Nara Falcón (born 1981), Mexican synchronized swimmer
• Jang Na-ra (born 1981), South Korean female singer
• Nara Bahadur Karmacharya, Nepalese politician
• Nara Kollery (died 2015), Indian sound recordist
• Kwon Nara (born 1991), South Korean female singer
• Nara Leão (1942–1989), Brazilian female singer
• Nara Lokesh (born 1983), Indian male politician
• Nara Rohit (born 1984), Indian film actor and producer
• Nara Bhupal Shah (1697–1743), king of the Gorkha state in Nepal

• Erika Nara, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
• Kurumi Nara (born 1991), Japanese tennis player
• Rao Nara (1420–1487), crown Prince of Nadol, India
• Setsuo Nara (奈良 節雄, born 1936), Japanese basketball player
• Takeji Nara (1868–1962), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
• Tatsuki Nara (born 1993), Japanese footballer
• Tatunca Nara (born 1941), German-Brazilian jungle guide who invented the lost city of Akakor
• Tōru Nara, Japanese voice actor
• Wanda Nara (born 1986), Argentine media personality and football agent
• Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), Japanese artist
• Zaira Nara (born 1988), Argentine model and TV host
• Ula Nara Duoqimuli, Empress consort of Qing dynasty Yongzheng Emperor

• 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 Hotel, a hotel in Nara, Japan
• Nara Station, a railway station in Nara, Japan
• Nara Television, a Japanese television and radio broadcaster headquartered in Nara, Japan
• Nara University, a private university in Misasagi-cho, Nara, Japan
• Nara Women's University, a national university in Nara, Japan
• 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 may stand for:

• National Alien Registration Authority, a defunct agency of the Government of Pakistan
• National Amateur Rowing Association, the governing body for rowing by working men in Britain prior to 1956
• 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

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