Canaan () () was the ancient region of the Levant. It is also a Semitic personal name or surname used by Arabic and Hebrew-speaking people.

Canaan may also refer to:

Places

Canada

  • Rural Municipality of Canaan No. 225, Saskatchewan
  • Canaan, New Brunswick
  • Canaan River, New Brunswick
  • Canaan, Kings County, Nova Scotia
  • Canaan, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia
  • Canaan, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia

United States

  • Canaan, Connecticut, a town
  • Canaan (CDP), Connecticut, a village in the town of North Canaan
  • Canaan, Indiana
  • Canaan, Maine
  • Canaan, Mississippi
  • Canaan, New Hampshire, a New England town
  • Canaan (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town
  • Canaan, New York
  • Canaan, Pennsylvania
  • Canaan, Vermont, a New England town
  • Canaan (CDP), Vermont, a village in the town
  • Canaan, West Virginia
  • Canaan Township, Athens County, Ohio
  • Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio
  • Canaan Township, Morrow County, Ohio
  • Canaan Township, Wayne County, Ohio
  • Canaan Valley, West Virginia
  • New Canaan, Connecticut
  • North Canaan, Connecticut
  • Canaan (village), Connecticut
  • South Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
  • Canaan Township (disambiguation)

West Indies

  • Canaan, Trinidad, a town in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Canaan, Tobago
  • Canaan, United States Virgin Islands

Other places

  • Canaan, Haiti
  • Colinas de Canaan, a neighborhood in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

People and biblical figures

  • Tawfiq Canaan (1882–1964), Palestinian physician and researcher of popular heritage
  • Isaiah Canaan (born 1991), American basketball player
  • Islam Cana'an (born 1983), Palestinian-Israeli footballer
  • Canaan Banana (1936–2003), first president of Zimbabwe
  • Canaan (son of Ham), son of Ham and grandson of Noah in the Old Testament

Video games

  • Canaan, a location in Final Fantasy III, a role-playing video game
  • The Mystical Land of Canaan, a location in Tales of Xillia 2
  • Canaan, the biblical setting for The Settlers of Canaan, a multiplayer board game
  • Canaan, a character in the Xenosaga video game series
  • Canaan, one of many visitable "Anteverses" in Abiotic Factor, a first-person survival video game

Other uses

  • Canaan (TV series), a 2009 action/adventure anime based on the 428: Shibuya Scramble video game
  • Canaan Creative, a computer hardware manufacturer making bitcoin miners
  • Canaan Dog, the national dog breed of Israel
  • Canaan Records, a Christian record label

See also

  • Canaanism, a Jewish cultural and ideological movement founded in 1939
  • Cannan, a surname of Manx origin
  • K'naan, stage name of Canadian-Somalian hip-hop artist Keinan Abdi Warsame (born 1978)
  • Kanaan, a surname
  • Kanan (disambiguation)