''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means

moorland Moorland or moor is a type of Habitat (ecology), habitat found in upland (geology), upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and the biomes of montane grasslands and shrublands, characterised by low-growing vegetation on So ...

heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a coole ...

. ''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning "flat, even, level, plain". They are therefore cognate with the English

plain In geography, a plain, commonly known as flatland, is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and ...

(and

plane Plane most often refers to: * Aero- or airplane, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft * Plane (geometry), a flat, 2-dimensional surface * Plane (mathematics), generalizations of a geometrical plane Plane or planes may also refer to: Biology * Plane ...

), the Spanish word ''

llanos The Llanos ( Spanish ''Los Llanos'', "The Plains"; ) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, ...

'' and the Italian word ''

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

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Places

Landes (department) Landes (; ; ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It also borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the south, Lot-et-Garonne to the north-e ...

, a department of France *

Landes forest The Landes forest (; La forêt des Landes in French) in the Landes de Gascogne (las Lanas de Gasconha in the Gascon language), in the historic Gascony natural region of southwestern France now known as Aquitaine, is the largest man-made woodlan ...

Landes of Gascony The Landes de Gascogne (; in Gascon, classic spelling ''las Lanas de Gasconha'', Fébusienne spelling ''leus Lanes de Gascougne''), or Gascony Moors, is a natural region of France of nearly 14000 km². It extends over three departments: Gironde, ...

, a natural region in the southwest of France *

Landes, Charente-Maritime Landes () is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Population See also * Communes of the Charente-Maritime department The following is a list of the 462 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of Fr ...

, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département *

Landes, West Virginia Landes is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The Uni ...

, United States *

Landes-sur-Ajon Landes-sur-Ajon () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the C ...

Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes (; ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes is located northeast of Rennes and south of Mont Saint-Michel. The adjacent communes are Le ...

, Brittany *

Rion-des-Landes Rion-des-Landes (; , before 1962: ''Rion'') is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Boos was merged into Rion-des-Landes.Centre d'Essais des Landes Center or centre may refer to: Mathematics *Center (geometry), the middle of an object * Center (algebra), used in various contexts ** Center (group theory) ** Center (ring theory) * Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentri ...

, launch site for testing military rockets

People

Landes (surname) Landes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Landes (1929–2014), rabbi * Alejandro Landes (born 1980), film director * Bertha Knight Landes (1868–1943), mayor of Seattle * Christy Landes, American physical chemist * D ...