The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:

Places

* Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden"

China

Gan River (Inner Mongolia) Gan River or Gan He is a tributary of the Nen River in Inner Mongolia, China. It flows 446 km from the east flank of the Greater Khingan Range into the Nen River at Nenjiang, through the Morin Dawa Daur and the Oroqin Autonomous Banner o ...

, *

Gan County Ganxian District () is a district in the municipal region of Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. Administration Ganxian has an area of . The district executive, legislature and judiciary The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, ju ...

, in Jiangxi province *

Gansu Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...

, abbreviated ''Gān'' (甘), province of China *

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, abbreviated ''Gàn'' (赣), province of China

Maldives

Gan (Addu Atoll) Gan () is the southernmost island of Addu Atoll (also known as Seenu Atoll), as well as the southernmost island of the Maldives. It is relatively large by Maldive standards. The origin of the word "Gan" is in the Sanskrit word "Grama", meaning " ...

* Gan (Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll) * Gan (Huvadhu Atoll) *

Gan (Laamu Atoll) Gan ( Dhivehi: ގަން) is one of the inhabited islands of Haddhunmathi Atoll, administrative code Laamu and the proposed capital for the Mathi-Dhekunu Province of the Maldives. History Archaeology Gan Island has large ruins from the histor ...

Gan International Airport Gan International Airport (GIA) is an international airport located on the island of Gan in Addu Atoll (sometimes known as Seenu Atoll) in the island nation of the Maldives. As of June 2024, it is one of five international airports in the Mald ...

Elsewhere

Gáň Gáň () is a village and municipality in Galanta District of the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1113. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, it was ...

, 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 Gan is a village in Lillestrøm municipality in Akershus, Norway. Gan is located close to the eastern shore of lake Øyeren, between Fetsund and Trøgstad Trøgstad was a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the ...

, a village in Lillestrøm municipality, Norway *

Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Gan (; ) is a commune located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the south-west of France. Gan station has rail connections to Pau, Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Bedous. Its mayor has been Mr Francis Pèes (Right Wing ; also Vice Presiden ...

, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France

Science and technology

* GAN (gene) *

Gan (Martian crater) 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 '' ...

Gallium nitride Gallium nitride () is a binary III/ V direct bandgap semiconductor commonly used in blue light-emitting diodes since the 1990s. The compound is a very hard material that has a Wurtzite crystal structure. Its wide band gap of 3.4 eV af ...

, a popular III-V semiconductor, chemical formula GaN *

Generative adversarial network A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning frameworks and a prominent framework for approaching generative artificial intelligence. The concept was initially developed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in June ...

, a class of machine learning systems *

Generic Access Network Wi-Fi calling, also called VoWiFi, refers to mobile phone voice calls and data that are made over IP networks using Wi-Fi, instead of the cell towers provided by cellular networks. Using this feature, compatible handsets are able to route ...

, formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)

People

Gan (surname) Gan is a surname. It may be a Latin-alphabet spelling of four different Chinese surnames (; respectively pronounced in Mandarin as ), a Korean surname (; written using the same character as the Chinese surname Jiǎn), and a surname in other cultur ...

, a surname in various cultures (including a list of people with the surname) *

Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 a ...

(1918–1970), president of Egypt *

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (2 April 1884 – 29 March 1965), usually referred to as GAN, was a Swedish artist and writer. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Swedish modernist art movement. His style was fluid with changing trends and contained element ...

(1884–1965), Swedish painter, signature "GAN" *

Ga-Adangbe people The Ga-Dangbe, Ga-Dangme, Ga-Adangme or Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in Ghana, Togo and Benin. The Ga or Gan and Dangbe or Dangme people are grouped as part of the Ga–Dangme languages, Ga–Dangme Ethnolinguistics, ethnolinguistic group. The ...

Fictional characters

Gan (Stephen King) ''The Dark Tower'' is a series of eight novels written by American author Stephen King, which incorporate multiple genres including fantasy, science fantasy, horror and western. Below are ''The Dark Tower'' characters that come into play as the ...

, in King's Dark Tower novel series *

Gan Isurugi ''Rival Schools: United by Fate'', known in Japan as is a 1997 3D fighting game produced by Capcom originally released as an arcade game on Sony ZN-2 hardware. ''Rival Schools'' revolves around tag team battles between groups of students fro ...

, in the ''Rival Schools'' video game series *

Olag Gan This is a list of characters from ''Blake's 7'', a media franchise created by Terry Nation. Kerr Avon Kerr Avon is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series ''Blake's 7'', played by Paul Darrow (who was recrea ...

, in the

Blake's 7 ''Blake's 7'' is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four series of thirteen 50-minute episodes were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first series, prod ...

television series and franchise

Other

GAN (cycling team) The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to: Places * Gan, a Glossary of Hebrew toponyms#Gan, component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden" China * Gan River (Jiangxi) * Gan River (Inner Mongolia), * Gan County, in Jiangxi pro ...

, the former name of the Crédit Agricole cycling team *

Gan Chinese-speaking people The Gan-speaking Chinese or Jiangxi people or Jiangyou people or Kiang-Si people (old romanized spelling) are a subgroup of Han Chinese people. The origin of Gan Chinese, Gan-speaking people in China are from Jiangxi province in China. Gan-speaki ...

Gan Chinese Gan, Gann or Kan is a group of Sinitic languages spoken natively by many people in the Jiangxi province of China, as well as significant populations in surrounding regions such as Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian. Gan is a member of the Siniti ...

, a variety of spoken Chinese *

, 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 The "Great American Novel" (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a Western Canon, canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and Culture of the United States, character of the United States. The term was coined b ...

, commonly abbreviated as GAN