BN, Bn or bn may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Arts and media

RTV BN RTV BN () is a Serbian radio-television company based in Bijeljina. The company was founded on 5 May 1998. RTV BN is currently the highest rated TV channel in Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH. RTV BN has over 200 employees w ...

, a Bosnian Serb broadcaster *

Bandai Namco (commonly known as and formerly Namco Bandai until 2015, also known as Bandai Namco Group,) is a Japanese mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 2005 by the merger of Namco and Bandai. The company specia ...

, a gaming and entertainment conglomerate *

Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. The company operates approximately 600 retail stores across the United States. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its B ...

, an American chain of bookstores * BN (band), Belarusian rock band

Transport

Braniff International Airways Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965, and then Braniff International from 1965 until the cessation of air operations, was an American airline that operated from 1928 until 1982 and continues to ...

(IATA code BN), a former American airline in service from 1928 to 1982 *

Britten-Norman Britten-Norman (BN) is a privately owned British aircraft manufacturer and aviation services provider. The company is the sole independent commercial aircraft producer in the United Kingdom. Britten-Norman has so far manufactured and sold its ai ...

, a British manufacturer, based on the Isle of Wight, producing Islander and Trislander aircraft *

La Brugeoise et Nivelles La Brugeoise et Nivelles, later BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques, was a Belgian manufacturer of railway locomotives and other rolling stock; it was formed by a merger of two companies: La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve and Les Ate ...

, a Belgian railway rolling stock manufacturer, now part of Alstom *

Burlington Northern Railroad The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States–based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1995. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroad ...

, a United States railroad that operated from 1970 to 1996 * Horizon Airlines (Australia) (IATA code BN), a former Australian airline, ending service in 2004

Other businesses and organizations

* Banca Nuova, an Italian bank *

Banque Nationale (disambiguation) ''Banque Nationale'' () may refer to: *''Banque Nationale Agricole'', state-controlled bank in Tunisia *BNP Paribas (''Banque Nationale de Paris''), commercial bank *National Bank of Canada (''Banque Nationale du Canada''), commercial bank *''Banqu ...

several banks *

Barisan Nasional Barisan Nasional (BN; ) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1974 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties to succeed the Alliance Party. It is the third largest political coalition with 30 seats in ...

(also known as "National Front"), a political coalition in Malaysia *

British Naturism British Naturism (until 2009, Central Council for British Naturism) is a members organisation with both individual and organisation members. It promotes naturism in the United Kingdom, and it is recognised by the International Naturist Fed ...

, the UK naturist society *

Groupe Danone Danone S.A. () is a French multinational food-products corporation based in Paris. It was founded in 1919 in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris, where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of the company's produ ...

(uronext stock exchange code BN), a French food-products multinational

Military

Bangladesh Navy The Bangladesh Navy () is the naval warfare branch of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, responsible for the defence of Bangladesh's of maritime territorial area from any external threat, the security of sea ports and exclusive economic zones of Ban ...

Battalion A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers. A battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into several Company (military unit), companies, each typically commanded by a Major (rank), ...

, a large unit

Places

Countries

Brunei Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

(ISO 3166: BN), Southeast Asia *

Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...

(WMO: BN), West Asia *

Benin Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its po ...

(FIPS 10-4: BN), West Africa *

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

(LOC MARC: BN), Europe

Regions

BN postcode area The BN postcode area, also known as the Brighton postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 30 postcode districts in South East England, within 18 post towns. These cover southwestern East Sussex (including Brig ...

, Sussex, England *

Bandarban District Bandarban District (), officially Bandarban Hill District, is a district in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a part of the Chittagong Division. It is one of the three hill districts of Bangladesh and a part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the others ...

, Bangladesh *

Province of Benevento The province of Benevento () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Benevento. Geography The province has an area of 2,071 km2, and, as of 2017, a population of 279,127. There are 78 '' ...

, Italy * Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, US

Place of worship

Baitun Nur Mosque The Baitun Nur () is an Ahmadiyya mosque in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Castleridge community of Calgary. History The cornerstone of the mosque was laid in 2005, and construction was completed in 2008 at an estimated self- ...

, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Science, technology and mathematics

* .bn, Brunei's top-level Internet domain * BN-reactor, a Russian nuclear reactor class *

Batch normalization Batch normalization (also known as batch norm) is a normalization technique used to make training of artificial neural networks faster and more stable by adjusting the inputs to each layer—re-centering them around zero and re-scaling them to ...

, in artificial intelligence *

Benzyl In organic chemistry, benzyl is the substituent or molecular fragment possessing the structure . Benzyl features a benzene ring () attached to a methylene group (). Nomenclature In IUPAC nomenclature, the prefix benzyl refers to a substituent ...

functional group (Bn), in organic chemistry *

Billion (disambiguation) Billion is a name for a large number. It may refer specifically to: * 1,000,000,000 (, one thousand million), the short scale definition * 1,000,000,000,000 (, one million million), the long scale definition Billion may also refer to: Film and ...

(bn), a number *

Boron nitride Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula B N. It exists in various crystalline forms that are isoelectronic to a similarly structured carbon lattice. The hexago ...

, a chemical compound *

Bulimia nervosa Bulimia nervosa, also known simply as bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating (eating large quantities of food in a short period of time, often feeling out of control) followed by compensatory behaviors, such as self-indu ...

, an eating disorder *

Dynkin diagram In the Mathematics, mathematical field of Lie theory, a Dynkin diagram, named for Eugene Dynkin, is a type of Graph (discrete mathematics), graph with some edges doubled or tripled (drawn as a double or triple line). Dynkin diagrams arise in the ...

B_n, in mathematical analysis

Other uses

* BN (biscuit), a Franco-British brand of baked food *

Bachelor of Nursing The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN, BScN) also known in some countries as a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) or Bachelor of Science (BS) with a Major in Nursing is an academic degree in the science and principles of nursing, granted by an accredited ...

, a professional degree *

Bacon Number Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that ...

, an actor's professional proximity to Kevin Bacon *

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

(ISO 639: bn), spoken in eastern South Asia *

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