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 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 The Nen River or Nenjiang (), or Nonni () is a river in Northeast China. The ...

, *

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 are at Meilin Town (), just upriver from the prefectural seat, toge ...

, in Jiangxi province *

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, 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 int ...

, 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 "Gram ...

Gan (Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll) Gaafu Dhaalu (also known as Southern Huvadhu Atoll or Huvadhu Atholhu Dhekunuburi, ހުވަދުއަތޮޅު ދެކުނުބުރި) is an administrative district of the Maldives formed by the southwestern section of Huvadhu Atoll. It was created on ...

Gan (Huvadhu Atoll) Gan is one of the uninhabited islands of Southern Huvadhu Atoll, in the Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll administrative division of the Maldives and is the largest natural island in Huvadhu Atoll. Gan Island was formerly inhabited, but its inhabitants moved to ...

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 ...

Elsewhere

Gáň Gáň ( hu, Gány) 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. Geography The municipality lies at an elevation of 125 metre ...

, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia *

Gan Island Gan (Dhivehi language, 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 S ...

, 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 Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Viken, Norway. Gan is located close to the eastern shore of lake Øyeren, between Fetsund and Trøgstad. Villages in Akershus {{Akershus-geo-stub ...

, a village in Lillestrøm municipality, Norway *

Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Gan (; oc, Gant) 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 P ...

, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France

Science and technology

GAN (gene) Gigaxonin also known as kelch-like protein 16 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''GAN'' gene. Function Gigaxonin is a member of the cytoskeletal BTB / kelch (Broad-Complex, Tramtrack and Bric a brac) repeat family. (Kelch repeats ...

* Gan (Martian crater) *

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 it ...

, 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 ...

, 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 ...

, 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 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-re ...

(1918–1970), president of Egypt *

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (2 April 1884 in Lund - 29 Mars 1965 in Stockholm), usually referred to as GAN, was a Swedish artist and writer. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Swedish modernist art movement. Personal experiences He was born in a fa ...

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

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 This is a list of characters from the ''Rival Schools'' series of video games and comic books. Introduced in ''Rival Schools: United By Fate'' Batsu Ichimonji : is the main protagonist in both ''Rival Schools'' games. In '' Rival Schools: United ...

, 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 recreati ...

, 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 ...

television series and franchise

Other

GAN (cycling team) 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 ''Gā ...

, 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-speakin ...

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 Gan International Airport (GIA) is an international airport located on the island of Gan in Addu Atoll (previously known as Seenu Atoll) in the island nation of the Maldives. As of June 2019, it is one of three international airports in the M ...

, IATA code * Global Apprenticeships Network, a not-for-profit association based in Geneva *

Global Arab Network Global Arab Network (GAN) (in Arabic غلوبال اراب نتورك) is a comprehensive news and information service about the Arab world in English and Arabic, registered and based in London London is the capital and largest city of En ...

, 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 a canonical novel that is thought to embody the essence of America, generally written by an American and dealing in some way with the question of America's national character. The ter ...

, commonly abbreviated as GAN