Terra

Terra is the Latin/Italian/Portuguese term for Earth or land.

Terra may also refer to:

• Terra (mythology), primeval Roman goddess

Geography

Astronomy

• An alternate name for Planet Earth, as well as the Latin name for the planet
• Terra (satellite), a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite
• Terrae, extensive land masses found on various solar system bodies
  • List of terrae on Mars
  • List of terrae on Venus
  • Terra, a highland on the Moon

Latin and other

• Terra Australis (southern land), hypothetical continent appearing on maps from the 15th to the 18th century
• Terra incognita, unknown land, for regions that have not been mapped or documented
• Terra nullius, land belonging to no one, nobody's land, empty or desolate land
• Terra pericolosa, dangerous land, for regions believed likely to put travelers in jeopardy
• Terra preta ("black earth"), very dark, fertile anthropogenic soil found in the Amazon Basin

Places

• Terra, Cyprus, a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus
• Terra Alta, West Virginia, a former coal town in Preston County

Nature

• Terra (butterfly), genus
• TERRA (biology), TElomeric Repeat-containing RNA: RNA resulting from telomere transcription.

People

Given name

• Terra Deva, American actress, singer-songwriter, dancer, and former Mickey Mouse Club member
• Terra Findlay (born 1990), Canadian ice dancer
• Terra Hazelton, Canadian broadcaster, jazz musician, and actress
• Terra Lawson-Remer, American politician, economist, and professor
• Terra Lightfoot, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter
• Terra Naomi (born 1974), indie-folk singer-songwriter
• Terra Trevor, American writer of mixed Native American and German ancestry
• Terra Wellington, American actress
• Terra Han (born 1981), Inventor

Surname

• Gabriel Terra (1873–1942), Uruguayan president

Other

• Terra Ryzing, one of the names given to professional wrestler Triple H

Fictional characters

• Terra, a playable Goddess in Smite (video game) as a Roman Guardian
• Terra Branford, a female character from Final Fantasy VI
• Terra (Kingdom Hearts), a male character from the video game franchise, Kingdom Hearts
• Terra (character), a name used by three characters in DC Comics

Books

• Terra (German science fiction), a science fiction series published by Arthur Moewig Verlag, Munich
• Terra, a 2013 SF novel by Mitch Benn, and its sequel Terra's World (2014)
• Terra Nostra (novel) (Our Earth), a 1975 historical novel on Hispanic history by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes
• TeRra Magazine , global music magazine

Film and TV

• Terra Film, German film company
• Terra: The Nature of Our World, video podcast
• La Terra (film), 2006 Italian film
• Terra (2015 film), a 2015 French nature documentary voiced by Vanessa Paradis
• Battle for Terra, a 2007 science fiction animated movie originally screened as Terra
• Terra, in the anime RahXephon

Games

• Terra (video game), 1996
• Terra, a fictional universe in Final Fantasy IX
• Holy Terra, the name for Earth, as the capital of the Imperium of Man, in the table top strategy and RPG game Warhammer 40,000.
• Terra, a fictional planet in Crash Nitro Kart (2003)

Music

• Terra (band), a Japanese band
• Terra (Cronian album)
• Terra (Mariza album)
• Terra (Jenni Vartiainen album)
• Terra (Laura Macrì album)
• TeRra (Live), an album by TeRra Han
• La Terra (album), by Aktuala

Business and brands

• Terra (currency), proposed global currency
• Terra Chips, a food brand owned by Hain Celestial Group
• Terra-Gruppen, Norwegian savings banks
• Terra (company), Spanish multinational media and internet company

• Nissan Terra, a sport utility vehicle manufactured by Nissan Motor Corporation

See also

• Tellus (disambiguation)
• Tera (disambiguation)
• Terra Alta (disambiguation)
• Terra Nova (disambiguation)
• Terrain
• Terran (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Terra
• All pages with titles containing Terra