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

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