Mara
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People
- Mara (name), list of people with this name
- Mara people, in West Maraland of Mizoram State in northeastern India, and in East Maraland in Chin state of Myanmar
- Mara language, a language spoken by Mara people
- Mara (Tagin), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
- Maravar, a dominant caste in Tamil Nadu state in India
Places
- Mara, Aragon, a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
- Mara, Iran, a village in Iran
- Mara, Isfahan, a village in Iran
- Mara, Kerman, a village in Iran
- Mara, a village in Desești Commune, Maramureş County, Romania
- Mara, Sardinia, a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia
- Mara, Spain, a municipality
- Mara, a small town in the Bushveld of South Africa
- Mara (torrent), a stream of Switzerland and Italy
- Mara District, Cotabambas, Peru
- Mara Mountain, a mountain in Greenland, and the closest mountain to the North Pole
- Mara Provincial Park, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
- Mara Provincial Park (Ontario), a provincial park located near Orillia, Ontario, Canada
- Mara Region, an administrative division in Tanzania
- Mara River, a river of Kenya and Tanzania
- Mara River (Iza), a river in Romania
- Mara River (Nunavut), a river in Nunavut, Canada
- Masai Mara, a reserve in Kenya near the Mara River
- Mara-do, an island of South Korea
Culture
- Mara (demon), in Buddhism
- Mara (folklore), a wraith-like creature in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore
- Mara (goddess), from Latvian mythology
- Marzanna or Mara, Slavic goddess
- Mara (Hindu goddess) of death
- Mara, anagram of Rama, for Valmiki to chant in Hindu mythology
Fiction
- Mara, an 1894 novel by Ioan Slavici
- Mara, a fictional planet of Procyon in the Childe Cycle of Gordon R. Dickson
- The Mara, an evil being in two Doctor Who serials
- Mara Jade, a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- Mara of the Wilderness, a 1965 adventure film
- Mara, character in the Feist and Wurts "Empire Trilogy"
- Mara, a 2013 Swedish horror film
Organisations
- Majlis Amanah Rakyat (People's Trust Council), Malaysian government-agency
- Mercury Amateur Radio Association - Formerly associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as their emergency communications arm.
- Migration Agents Registration Authority Australian regulator of migration agents
- Dance Club Mara, a formation dance team, Minsk, Belarus
- Mara (supermarket), a Romanian supermarket chain
- Mara (gang), a form of gang in America
- Mara Salvatrucha, in Central and North America
Other
- Mara (album), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig
- Mara (mammal), a species of the cavy family
- Mara the Lioness, in the movie Born Free
- MaraDNS, DNS software
- Mara (tree), Neonauclea forsteri, a species of tree in the madder family
- Mara (unit), unit of resourcefulness, often used in Croatia
Military and transport
- SS Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Lago Oil and Transport Company
- Shell Mara, a Lake tanker operated in Lake Maracaibo by Shell Oil
- Mirage 5P Mara, upgraded Dassault Mirage 5 aircraft for Argentine Air Force
- "MARA", Argentine antitank missile
See also
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