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
  • Jiang Gan, a Chinese debater and scholar
  • Luo Gan (born 1935), a Chinese politician

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
  • GANCUBE, a Chinese speedcubing company, abbreviated as GAN

See also

  • Bryan McGan (1848–1894), Australian cricketer
  • Gahan
  • Gahn
  • Ghan (disambiguation)
  • Gann (disambiguation)
  • 幹 (disambiguation)