Contra

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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

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

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