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Thana
Thana
or
Thāṇā
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
to
upazila
in
Indian history
a thana was a group of
princely states
deemed
too small to
perform
all
functions
separately