Nara can refer to:
- Geography
- Nara, Attock, a village in Attock, Pakistan
- Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum, Pakistan
- Nara, NWFP, Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan
- Nara, Nara, capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Nara Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
- Nara, Mali, a city in Mali
- Nara River, a river in Russia
- People and society
- Nara people, an ethnic minority in Eritrea
- Nara (clan), a Manchu clan
- Nara Party or National Radical Camp, a Polish political party from 1937 to 1939
- People with the name Nara
- Yoshitomo Nara, a Japanese artist
- Other uses
- Nara language, a language spoken chiefly in Eritrea
- Nara period, a period of Japanese history
- Shikamaru Nara, a fictional character in the manga and anime series Naruto
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), a U.S. government agency
- One of the twins Nara-Narayana in Hindu mythology
- Acanthosicyos horridus or !nara, a melon of the Namib desert
- Naenara, the official web portal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- "Nara", a song from the album Unearthed by E.S. Posthumus