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Tank (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ230486
Source-derived summary

A tank is an armoured combat vehicle.

Tank or tanking may also refer to:

Geographical names

Oceania

Tank Stream, New South Wales, Australia

Asia

Tank (city), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Tank District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Tank Tehsil, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Tank Subdivision, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Bandar-e Tang, also known as Tank, village in Iran

North America

Tank Mountains, Arizona, United States

Tank Pond (disambiguation)

Tanks Peak, Colorado, United States

People

Tank (surname)

Stage name

Tank (American singer), American R&B singer Durrell Babbs (born 1976)

Tank (German singer), Eric Geisenheyner (born 1977)

Tank (Taiwanese singer), singer/songwriter Lü Jianzhong (born 1982)

Tank Palamara (born 1968), Italian rock guitarist Tancredi Palamara

Other people

Tank (nickname)

Tank Man, Chinese man arrested for standing in front of Chinese tanks

Tank or Tanche (family), in Denmark and Norway

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Tank (Gobots), a character from the Gobots toy line

Tank (The Matrix), a minor character from The Matrix

Michael "Tank" Ellis, a character in the Canadian-American television series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future

Tank, the title character of the comic strip Tank McNamara

"The Tank", a character from the Left 4 Dead video game series

Tank, the main character from the children's TV series Pupstruction

Tank, a character (Rainbow Dash's pet tortoise) from the children's show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Music

Groups

Tank (band), British heavy metal band

Albums

Tank (album), by Asian Dub Foundation

Kreidler Tank, by Kreidler

Songs

"Tank", an instrumental by Emerson, Lake & Palmer on their 1970 eponymous album

"Tank!", the opening song for the anime series Cowboy Bebop

"Tank", a song by South Korean girl group NMIXX from their 2022 single album Ad Mare

"Tank", a song by The Stranglers from Black and White

Video games

Tank (video games), a video game term for a character that attracts enemies and their attacks as a way to protect other characters

Tank (video game), a 1974 arcade game by Kee Games

Tank! Tank! Tank!, a video game

TNK III (1984 video game), a video game that was released in Japan as "T.A.N.K."

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Tank!

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