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 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 International Airport

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) * Gallium nitride, a popular III-V semiconductor, chemical formula GaN * Generative adversarial network, a class of machine learning systems * Generic Access Network, 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 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 (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), 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'' 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 *

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 * Gan International Airport, 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