Thana

South Asian police station

This article is about the administrative unit. For other uses, see Thana (disambiguation).

Thana means "police station" in South Asian countries, and can also mean the district controlled by a police station.

* Thanas of Bangladesh, former subdistricts in the administrative geography of Bangladesh; later renamed upazila
* in (British) Indian history, a thana was a group of princely states deemed too small to perform all functions separately
* Thane is a city named after the word thana (police station) because it was important for its barracks back in colonial era, it is located in Konkan division, a province of India
* Thana Bhawan (lit. 'police station house'), also known simply as Thana, is a town in Uttar Pradesh, India

## See also

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* All pages with titles containing Thana
* The dictionary definition of thana at Wiktionary
* Tana (disambiguation)
* Thaana, also known as Tāna, the modern writing system of the Divehi language

*[lit.]: literal translation