The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:

Places

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

China

Gan River (Jiangxi) The Gan River (, Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan. Two similarly sized ...

* Gan River (Inner Mongolia), * Gan County, in Jiangxi province * Gansu, abbreviated ''Gān'' (甘), province of China *

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into h ...

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

Maldives

Gan (Addu Atoll) Gan ( Div: ގަން) 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 "Gra ...

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

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) 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 ...

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 affords i ...

, a popular III-V semiconductor *

Generative adversarial network A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning frameworks designed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in June 2014. Two neural networks contest with each other in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent's gain is ...

, a class of machine learning systems *

Generic Access Network Generic Access Network (GAN) is a protocol that extends mobile voice, data and multimedia (IP Multimedia Subsystem/Session Initiation Protocol (IMS/SIP)) applications over IP networks. Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) is the commercial name used by m ...

, 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 Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-r ...

(1918–1970), president of Egypt * Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884–1965), Swedish painter, signature "GAN"

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 ''Blake's 7'' (sometimes styled ''Blakes7'') is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four 13-episode series were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first ser ...

television series and franchise

Other

* GAN (cycling team), the former name of the Crédit Agricole cycling team * Gan Chinese-speaking people *

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 S ...

, a variety of spoken Chinese * Gan International Airport, IATA code *

Global Apprenticeships Network The Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) is a Swiss independent and neutral not-for-profit association based in Geneva. The GAN is a network of companies, employer organisations, associations and international organisations with the mission of pr ...

, a not-for-profit association based in Geneva * Global Arab Network, a London-based news service about the Arab world *

Grant Anticipation Note Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle, or GARVEE, is a type of bond or similar financing method issued by a state or state infrastructure bank under the guidelines of the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995, eventually made permanent in sec ...

, a type of highway financing *

Great American Novel The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is a Western Canon, canonical novel that is thought to embody the essence of United States, America, generally written by an American and dealing in some way with the question of America' ...

, commonly abbreviated as GAN