| Official Name: | Barra |
| Pushpin Map: | Gambia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Gambia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | North Bank Division |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lower Niumi |
| Leader Title: | Al Kali |
| Leader Name: | Alhagi Faye |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 13.4833°N -49°W |
Barra, traditionally known as Niumi, is a city in The Gambia, located in the district of Lower Niumi.[1] [2] The predominant languages of the city are Serer and Wolof.
Although Mandinka-speaking Africans always referred to the state along the north bank of the Gambia River's estuary as Niumi, not everyone did. For a long time it was called "Barra" in the creolized trade language of the river, and between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British and French records use "Barra" or "Bar" more frequently than "Niumi".