Kan or KAN may refer to:

Places

  • Kan (river), a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia
  • Kan District of Iran
  • Kan, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Batken Region
  • Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, Nigeria, IATA code
  • Kannapolis (Amtrak station), North Carolina, US, station code
  • Kansas, a U.S. state

People

  • Kan (surname), including a list of people with the surname
  • One of the Bacabs of Mayan mythology
  • Kan (musician), Japanese singer-songwriter
  • Kan Kimura (born 1966), Japanese scholar
  • Kan Otake (born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player
  • Kan Shimozawa (1892–1968), Japanese novelist
  • Kanye West, American musician who is sometimes known as just "Kan"

Music

  • "Kan" (song), Israeli Eurovision song in 1991
  • KAN, UK folk supergroup with Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke

In science and technology

  • kan, PDP ligand, kanamycin A
  • Iwasawa decomposition of a Lie group in mathematics
  • Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, a type of artificial neural network architecture

Weights and measures

  • A Japanese unit of mass ()
  • Kan, a Korean unit of length

Other uses

  • Dated transliteration of Gan in Chinese contexts
  • Kan language (disambiguation), several languages
  • Kananook railway station, Melbourne
  • Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN), Czech Republic
  • Variation of the Sicilian Defence in chess
  • Kan (), the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
  • A string of Japanese mon coins

See also

  • Can (disambiguation)
  • Kaan (disambiguation)
  • Kahn (German surname)
  • Kane (disambiguation)
  • Kang (disambiguation)
  • Kann (disambiguation)
  • Khan (disambiguation)
  • 幹 (disambiguation)