Samana

The term Samaná or Samana can mean one of 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
• Cape Samana on Samaná Peninsula
• Samaná Bay, a body of water in the Atlantic next to the Samaná Peninsula
• Samaná Mountain Range (Sierra de Samaná)
• Samaná El Catey International Airport

Other

• Samana Cay, a uninhabited island in the central Bahamas
• 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 Range, a mountain range in Pakistan near Peshawar
• Samana, Guinea

People

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

Arts

• Samana (screenplay), a screenplay by the Indian playwright Vijay Tendulkar

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 moth in the family Geometridae
• Samana hutia, an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae