Patan is one of the administrative blocks/Tehsil/ Taluka of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India.

Patan a Taluka/Block, close to Medininager Palamu, is located 25 km from Medininagar (Daltonganj).

Patan is a part of Chhatarpur (Jharkhand Assembly constituency).

Patan surrounded on every side by mountains is a small beautiful town.

Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu;[1] and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.