Gan

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The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:

Places

• Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden"

China

• Gan River (Jiangxi)
• Gan River (Inner Mongolia),
• Gan County, in Jiangxi province
• Gansu, abbreviated Gān (甘), province of China
• Jiangxi, abbreviated Gàn (赣), province of China

Maldives

• Gan (Addu Atoll)
• Gan (Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll)
• Gan (Huvadhu Atoll)
• Gan (Laamu Atoll)
• Gan International Airport

Elsewhere

• Gáň, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia
• Gan Island, an island in the Addu Atoll in the Indian Ocean that used to be an RAF airbase
• Gan, Norway, a village in Lillestrøm municipality, Norway
• Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France

Science and technology

• GAN (gene)
• Gan (Martian crater)
• Gallium nitride, a popular III-V semiconductor, chemical formula GaN
• Generative adversarial network, a class of machine learning systems
• Generic Access Network, formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)

People

• Gan (surname), a surname in various cultures (including a list of people with the surname)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), president of Egypt
• Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884–1965), Swedish painter, signature "GAN"
• Ga-Adangbe people

Fictional characters

• Gan (Stephen King), in King's Dark Tower novel series
• Gan Isurugi, in the Rival Schools video game series
• Olag Gan, in the Blake's 7 television series and franchise

Other

• GAN (cycling team), the former name of the Crédit Agricole cycling team
• Gan Chinese-speaking people
• Gan Chinese, a variety of spoken Chinese
• Gan International Airport, IATA code
• Global Apprenticeships Network, a not-for-profit association based in Geneva
• Global Arab Network, a London-based news service about the Arab world
• Grant Anticipation Note, a type of highway financing
• Great American Novel, commonly abbreviated as GAN

See also

• All pages with titles containing Gan or Gans
• All pages with titles beginning with Gan
• All pages with titles beginning with GAN
• Bryan McGan (1848–1894), Australian cricketer
• Gahan
• Gahn
• Ghan (disambiguation)
• Gann (disambiguation)