Dera

Dera (Urdu: ڈیرہ) is a common element in placenames of South Asia.

Dera, Dehra or DERA may also refer to:

Places

Ethiopia

• Dera, Amhara (woreda), in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
• Dera, Ethiopia, town in southeastern Ethiopia
• Dera, Oromia (woreda), Ethiopia

India

• Dera Bassi, in Mohali district in the state of Punjab, India
• Dera Baba Nanak, in Gurdaspur district in the state of Punjab, India
• Dera Gopipur, in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India
• Dehra, Himachal, India

Iran

• Dera, Iran, a village in Kerman Province
• Dera, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran
• Dehra, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province

Pakistan

• Dera Allah Yar, in Jaffarabad District of Balochistan, Pakistan
• Dera Bugti District, in Balochistan province of Pakistan
• Dera Ghazi Khan, city in the Punjab province of Pakistan
• Dera Ismail Khan, city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan
• Dera Khalsa, in Punjab, Pakistan
• Dera Murad Jamali, city in Nasirabad District, Balochistan, Pakistan

Syria

• Daraa, a city in Syria

Acronyms

• Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, a part of the UK Ministry of Defence between 1995 and 2001
• Defense-Independent ERA, created by Voros McCracken
• Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
• Downtown Eastside Residents Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, a division at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC

Other

• Dera (organization), a socio-religious organization in northern India
• Dera language, a Senagi language of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
• An alternate name for the Devanga caste in Odisha, India

See also

• Dera Sacha Sauda, an Indian religious cult