Samana Explained

The term Samaná or Samana may mean several things:

Places

Dominican Republic

• Samaná Province, a province in the Dominican Republic
• Samaná (town), or Santa Bárbara de Samaná, the capital of Samaná Province
• Samaná Peninsula
• Samaná Bay, a body of water in the Atlantic next to the Samaná Peninsula
• Samaná El Catey International Airport

Other

• Samana Cay, an uninhabited island
• Samaná, Caldas, a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas
• Samaná Norte River, a river in Antioquia Department, Colombia
• Samana, India, a town in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punjab
  • Samana (Assembly constituency)
• Samana Range, a mountain range in Pakistan near Peshawar
• Samana, Guinea

People

• Samana,, or śramaṇa, the name for certain wandering ascetics from the Indian subcontinent, one of whom was Gautama Buddha
• Samana, the mother of Imam Ali al-Hadi
• Natthaphong Samana (born 1984), Thai footballer

Other

• Samaná Americans, a community of descendants of 19th century U.S. freed people of color in the Dominican Republic
• Samaná English, spoken by the Samaná Americans
• Samana (moth), a genus of moths in the family Geometridae
• Samana hutia, an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae
• Samna (film), a 1974 Indian Marathi-language crime drama
• Śramaṇa or samana, ascetic orders in ancient India including Jains and Buddhists
  • Sramanera, a Buddhist novice
  • Sramanachegas, 1st-century BC Indian philosopher and monk
  • Samanar or samana, term for Jains in Tamil Nadu
    • Samanar Hills, Tamil Nadu, India, holy to the Jains