Dranda (Georgian: დრანდა; Abkhaz: Дранда; Armenian: Դրանդա; Russian: Дранда) is a town located in Gulripshi District near the Black Sea, about 20 km (12 mi) from the capital Sukhumi and about 7 kilometers from Gulripshi.

Built around 551 by emperor Justinian I In the Georgian Orthodox Catholicate of Abkhazia, during the Middle Ages Dranda served as the seat of bishops.

After the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921, the Georgian Orthodox Church was subjected to intense harassment.

The entire population fled to the Ottoman Empire following the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878).

This makes Dranda one of the few places in Abkhazia whose population is higher than the figure from the last Soviet census.