Thana or Thânâ ( bn, থানা literally "

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, al ...

") mean the district controlled by a police station.

History

Thana was a subdistrict in the

administrative geography of Bangladesh Bangladesh is divided into 8 divisions (''bibhag'') and 64 districts (''jela'', ''zila'', ''zela''), although these have only a limited role in public policy. For the purposes of local government, the country is divided into upazilas (sub-di ...

. The Local Government

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of 1982 was amended a year later, redesignating and upgrading the existing ''thanas'' as ''

upazilas 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 ...

''. Later in 1999 geographic regions under administrations of thanas were converted into upazilas. All administrative terms in this level were renamed from ''thana'' to ''upazila''. The word thana is now used to solely refer to police stations. Generally, there is one police station for each upazila. However, larger administrative units may have more than one police station covering different regions.

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Former subdivisions of Bangladesh {{bangladesh-geo-stub

History

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