Dera

Dera or DERA may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

• Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, part of the UK Ministry of Defence 1995–2001
• Downtown Eastside Residents Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1973–2010
• Dera (organization), a socio-religious organization in northern India
• Deutsche Rohstoffagentur (German Natural Resources Agency), section of Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

Places

Ethiopia

• Dera, Ethiopia
• Dera, Amhara (woreda)
• Dera, Oromia

India

• Dera Gopipur, Himachal Pradesh, known during the British Raj as Dera
• Dera (village) in South Delhi district.

Iran

• Dera, Iran, in Kerman Province
• Dera, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad

Other uses

• dera, a component of some placenames in South Asia
• Dera language, a Senagi language of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
• Kanakuru language, or Dera, in Nigeria
• Charles Dera (born 1978), American pornographic actor
• Defense-Independent ERA, a baseball statistic
• Diesel Emissions Reduction Act, American legislation

See also

• Daraa, a city in Syria
• Deira, an area of post-Roman Britain
• Deira, Dubai, a district in the UAE
• Dera Sacha Sauda, an Indian religious cult