Kára

Kara or KARA may refer to:

• Kara Sea, a sea in the Arctic Ocean
• Kara Lake, Bolivia
• Kára, Hungary, a village
• Kara, Uttar Pradesh, India, a township
• Kara, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province
• Kara, Sardauna, a village in Sardauna, Nigeria 
• Kara, Bougainville, a town on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea
• Kara Strait, a strait in Russia
• Kara crater, a meteorite crater in northern Russia
• Kara Region, Togo region
  • Kara, Togo, a city in northern Togo
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Kara, Togo
• Kara River (disambiguation)
• Gaya confederacy, a confederation in the southern Korean peninsula from 45 to 562, also called Kara by the inhabitants of Japan

In Norse mythology, Kára is a valkyrie. Kára is attested in the prose epilogue of the Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II. The epilogue details that "there was a belief in the pagan religion, which we now reckon an old wives' tale, that people could be reincarnated," and that the deceased valkyrie Sigrún and her dead love Helgi Hundingsbane were considered to have been reborn as another Helgi and valkyrie couple; Helgi as Helgi Haddingjaskati and Sigrún as the daughter of Halfdan—the valkyrie Kára. The epilogue states that further information about the two can be found in the work Káruljóð. However, Káruljóð has not survived.