Pana or PANA may refer to:
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Pana (mythology)
In Inuit mythology, Pana was the god who cared for souls in the underworld
The underworld, also known as the netherworld or hell, is the supernatural world of the dead in various religious traditions and myths, located below the world of ...
, a god in Inuit religion
*PANA, in telecommunications, a Plain ANAlog loop
Alarm circuit
A dry loop is an unconditioned leased pair of telephone line from a telephone company. The pair does not provide dial tone or battery (continuous electric potential), as opposed to a wet pair, a line usually without dial tone but with battery.
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, a network access authentication protocol
*Pana, used for
PanaPress
PanaPress or Pana or PanAfrican News Agency is an African news agency. It has its headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. It was founded on 20 July 1979 in Addis Ababa by the OAU and was relaunched by UNESCO in 1993. It provides news in English, French, ...
of Pan African NewsAgency
*Another name for
punch marked coins
Punch-marked coins, also known as ''Aahat coins'', are a type of early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. It was of irregular shape.
History
The study of the relative chronology of these coins has successful ...
used in India until the third century
*''Pana'', the term for a
snow knife
A snow knife or snow saw (Inuktitut: ''pana''Pana language
Pana is an Mbum language of the Central African Republic. A few thousand speak it in southern Chad and northern Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun ...
, a language spoken in the Central African Republic
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Pa Na language
Pa Na (; autonym: ') is a Hmongic language spoken by about 1,000 people in Shangpai (上排), Zhongpai (中排), and Xiapai (下排) of Chengbu County, and Huangshuangping (黄双坪), Suining County in Hunan, China. It is also called "Red Mia ...
, a language spoken in Hunan, China
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Pana language (Gur), a language spoken in Burkina Faso and Mali
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Pana Wave
The Pana-Wave Laboratory ( ja, パナウェーブ研究所) is a Japanese new religious group or "Shinshūkyō". Estimates of membership range from several hundred to 1,200.''Metropolis'', "Fortean Japan", 27 June 2008, p. 12.
Origin
Pana-Wav ...
or Pana Wave Laboratory, a Japanese new religious group
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"Pana" (song), a 2016 single by Tekno
People
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Paná (footballer)
Valdemar António Almeida (born 9 March 1992), known as Paná, is an Angolan professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Académico Viseu as a midfielder.
Football career
On 11 August 2013, Pana made his professional debut with Marít ...
, Angolan footballer
Places
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Pana, Burkina Faso
Pana, Burkina Faso is a village in the Pompoï Department of Balé Province in southern Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , ...
, a village in Balé Province, Burkina Faso
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Pana, Gabon
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Pana, Tibet
Pana, or Pagnag (), also known as Anduo, or Amdo, is a town and the seat of Amdo County in the Nagqu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in China. It lies 464 kilometres north of Lhasa and 138 km north of Nagqu. As of 2004 its jurisdic ...
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Pana, Illinois
Pana is a small town in Christian County, Illinois, United States. A small portion is in Shelby County. The population was 5,199 at the 2020 census.
History
The area around Pana was first organized as Stone Coal Precinct in 1845. The county's ...
, United States
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Pana, Ontario, Canada
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Paňa
Paňa ( hu, Nemespann) is a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia, in the Nitra Region.
History
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1239 (in form Poonh). After the Mongolian invasion of H ...
, a village in Nitra District, Slovakia
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Pana, Indonesia
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Pa-na
Pa-na is a village in Hsawlaw Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British E ...
, Burma
Other uses
*Pana, a slang term for
St Patrick's Street
St Patrick's Street ( ga, Sráid Naomh Pádraig) is the main shopping street of the city of Cork in the south of Ireland. The street was subject to redevelopment in 2004, and has since won two awards as Ireland's best shopping street. St Patrick ...
in Cork, Ireland
See also
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Panna (disambiguation)
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Panar (disambiguation)
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