Dera
# 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

## Places

### Ethiopia

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

### India

* Dera Gopipur, Himachal Pradesh, known during the British Raj as Dera

### Iran

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

## Other uses

* dera, a component of some placanames 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
