''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means

moorland Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils. Moorland, nowadays, generally ...

or heath. ''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English

plain In geography, a plain is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands ...

(and

plane Plane(s) most often refers to: * Aero- or airplane, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft * Plane (geometry), a flat, 2-dimensional surface Plane or planes may also refer to: Biology * Plane (tree) or ''Platanus'', wetland native plant * Planes (gen ...

), the Spanish word ''

llanos The Llanos (Spanish ''Los Llanos'', "The Plains"; ) is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical grasslands, sav ...

'' and the Italian word ''

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

''.

Places

* Landes (department), a department of France * Landes forest or

Landes of Gascony The Landes de Gascogne (in Gascon, classic spelling ''las Lanas de Gasconha'', Fébusienne spelling ''leus Lanes de Gascougne''), or Gascony Moors, is a natural region of France of nearly . It extends over three departments: Gironde, Landes and ...

, a natural region in the southwest of France *

Landes, Charente-Maritime Landes () is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Population See also * Communes of the Charente-Maritime department The following is a list of the 463 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of France. ...

, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département *

Landes, West Virginia Landes is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. Landes is located on U.S. Route 220 U.S. Route 220 (US 220) is a spur route of US 20. It runs in a north–south layout in the eastern United ...

, United States *

Landes-sur-Ajon Landes-sur-Ajon () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Calvados department The following is a list of the 528 communes of the Calvados department of F ...

Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes (; br, Sant-Eler-al-Lann) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. Geography Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes is located northeast of Rennes and south of Mont Saint-Michel. The adjac ...

, Brittany *

Rion-des-Landes Rion-des-Landes (; oc, Arrion) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Boos was merged into Rion-des-Landes.Centre d'Essais des Landes DGA Essais de missiles (previously named Centre d'Essais des Landes) is a launch site for the test of military rockets and for launching sounding rockets in France. "DGA Essais de missiles" is situated between Biscarrosse and the Atlantic Ocean at . ...

, launch site for testing military rockets

Other uses

Landes (surname) Landes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Landes (1929–2014), rabbi * Alejandro Landes (born 1980), film director * Bertha Knight Landes (1868–1943), mayor of Seattle * Daniel Landes, rabbi * David Landes (1924–2 ...