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Thana

South Asian police station

Thana means "station" or "place" in South Asian countries. The word thana originates from the Sanskrit word sthana or "sthanak", meaning "place" or "stand", which was anglicized as thana by the British.

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 sthana (station), and is located in the Konkan division, a province of India
Thana Bhawan (), also known simply as Thana, is a town in Uttar Pradesh, India

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