Thana means "

police station A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, a ...

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

Thanas of Bangladesh Thana or Thânâ ( bn, থানা literally "police station") mean the district controlled by a police station. History Thana was a subdistrict in the administrative geography of Bangladesh. The Local Government Ordinance of 1982 was amended a y ...

, former subdistricts in the administrative geography of Bangladesh; later renamed ''

upazila An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...

'' * in (British) Indian history, a ''thana'' was a group of

princely states A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...

deemed too small to perform all functions separately *

Thane Thane (; also known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven taluk ...

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 (), also known simply as Thana, is a town in Uttar Pradesh, India

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