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() is a town in Franklin and Washington townships, Ripley County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,816 at the 2000 census.
The town's name is pronounced differently from the English name for the Italian city of the same name: listen.
Its high school, Milan High School, won the Indiana state basketball championship in 1954 against Muncie Central High School, a school ten times its size. The 1986 movie
is loosely based on the story of this team. Milan is the subject of the 1941 Tramp Starr poetry compiled in the volume "Population 359."
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.9 square miles (5.0 km²), of which, 1.9 square miles (4.9 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (1.55%) is water.