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

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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, 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 "Gr ...

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 language, Dhivehi: :dv:ޤިސްމު:ގަން (ލ. އަތޮޅު), ގަން) is one of the inhabited islands of Haddhunmathi Atoll, administrative code Laamu and the proposed capital for the Administrative Divisions of the Maldives, Ma ...

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 ...

, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France

Science and technology

* GAN (gene) * Gan (Martian crater) * Gallium nitride, a popular III-V semiconductor * 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 (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 * Characters of Blake's 7#Olag Gan, Olag Gan, in the Blake's 7 television series and franchise

Other

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