Contra

Contra may refer to:

Places

 * Contra, Virginia
 * Contra Costa Canal, an aqueduct in the U.S. state of California
 * Contra Costa County, California
 * Tenero-Contra, a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland

People

 * Cosmin Contra (born 1975), Romanian football player
 * Contra (writer) (real name Margus Konnula; born 1974), Estonian poet and translator
 * Contra (rapper) (real name Çağdaş Terzi; born 1989), Turkish rapper and songwriter

Games

 * Contra (card game), an historical German card game also known as Kontraspiel
 * Contra (cards), a bid to double the stakes in many card games
 * Contra (series), a line of run-and-gun video games created by Konami
 * Contra (video game), the original game, released in 1987

Music and dance

 * Contra (album), the second album by Vampire Weekend
 * Contra (band), a band from Cleveland
 * "Contra" (song), a song by Logic
 * Contra dance, several folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length

Film

 * Contra (film), 2020 German film

Law and politics

 * Contra (citation signal), a term used in legal citations
 * Contra account, or contra amount
 * Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas
 * Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras

Musical instruments

 * Contra-alto clarinet
 * Contrabass bugle, the lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline
 * Contrabass clarinet
 * Contrabass saxophone
 * Contrabassoon, or double bassoon, a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower
 * Subcontrabass saxophone

Other uses

 * Contra (restaurant), a defunct Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City