Thaqban ( ) is a village in Bani al-Harith District of Amanat al-Asimah Governorate, Yemen. It is located just south of the point where the Wadi Zahr opens out onto the Sanaa plain. It is part of the 'uzlah of Qaryat al-Qabil.

Name and history 
The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani related a legend about the village of Thaqban in his Iklil and wrote that Thaqban takes its name from one Thaqban b. Nawf b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.

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Villages in Sanaa Governorate