Kan
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Kan or KAN may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Kan (river), a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia
- Kan District of Iran
- Kan, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Batken Region
- Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, Nigeria, IATA code
- Kannapolis (Amtrak station), North Carolina, US, station code
- Kansas, a U.S. state
People
[edit]- Kan (surname), including a list of people with the surname
- One of the Bacabs of Mayan mythology
- Kan (musician), Japanese singer-songwriter
- Kan Shimozawa (1892–1968), Japanese novelist
- Kan Otake (born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player
Music
[edit]- "Kan" (song), Israeli Eurovision song in 1991
- KAN, UK folk supergroup with Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke
In science and technology
[edit]- kan, PDP ligand, kanamycin A
- Iwasawa decomposition of a Lie group in mathematics
Weights and measures
[edit]- A Japanese unit of mass (
貫 ) - Kan, a Korean unit of length
Other uses
[edit]- Dated transliteration of Gan in Chinese contexts
- Kan language (disambiguation), several languages
- Kananook railway station, Melbourne
- Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN), Czech Republic
- Variation of the Sicilian Defence in chess
- Kan (Hebrew: כאן, lit. 'Here'), the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation
- A string of Japanese mon coins