DERA

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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

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