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THÁNA, chief town of the above district and a station on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, lies 20 miles north east of Bombay city, in 19° 11′ 30″ N. lat. and 73° 1′ 30″ E. long., and in 1881 had a population of 14,456 (males 7856, females 6600). It is a municipal town and a port, and contains a civil hospital and post-office.

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