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Africa

  • "Tara", Cairo, a squatted villa on Gezira Island, Cairo, Egypt, made notorious by its SOE occupants during World War II
  • Tara, Zambia, a village in the Southern Province of Zambia
  • Tara Subcounty, a region in Maracha District, Uganda

Asia

  • Tara, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province
  • Tara, Nepal, a village in Baglung District in the Dhawalagiri Zone of central Nepal
  • Tara, Russia, several inhabited localities
  • Tara, Saga, a town, mountain, and mountain range in Saga Prefecture, Japan

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  • Hill of Tara, an ancient site in County Meath, Republic of Ireland
  • Tara, County Down, a townland in the civil parish of Witter, County Down, Northern Ireland
  • Tara, County Offaly, a townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Republic of Ireland

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hill of Tara</span> Irish royal site and archaeological complex

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tara (Buddhism)</span> Female Buddha of Compassion

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