Cantonmen Thana ( bn, ক্যান্টনমেন্ট) is a
Thana
Thana 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 ''upazila''
* in (Briti ...
of
Dhaka district
Dhaka District ( bn, ঢাকা জেলা, Dhaka jela) is a district in central Bangladesh, and is the densest district in the nation. It is a part of the Dhaka Division. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and rests on the eastern banks o ...
in the Division of
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
, Bangladesh. It includes the
Army Headquarters,
Naval Headquarters
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and the
Air Force Headquarters
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. Cantonment Thana was formed in 1976.
Geography
Cantonment is located at . It has 36540 units of household and total area 14.47 km
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Demographics
At the 1991 Bangladesh census, Cantonment had a population of 117,464, of whom 109,817 were aged 18 or older.
See also
* Upazilas of Bangladesh
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 ...
* Districts of Bangladesh
* Divisions of Bangladesh
References
Thanas of Dhaka
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