Dara (arab. محافظة درعة) – one of 14 administrative units the first row (muhafaza) in Syria. It is located in the southern part of the country. Bordered on the east side of Suwayda, on the north of Hims, on the east with Jordan and in the north of the Rif Dimaszk, in the west of Al-Kunajtira and in the south of Jordan.