Lang may refer to: *

Lang (surname) Lang is a surname of Germanic origin, closely related to Lange, Laing and Long, all of which mean "tall". "Lang" (Láng) is also a surname in Hungary, a cognate of the Hungarian word for "flame."https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=lan ...

, a surname of independent Germanic or Chinese origin

Places

* Lang Island (Antarctica), East Antarctica *

Lang Nunatak Lang Nunatak () is an isolated nunatak located in the interior of southern Palmer Land, Antarctica, about west of the head of Irvine Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and ...

, Antarctica *

Lang Sound Lang Sound () is a sound wide at its narrowest point and long, lying between the group of islands that includes Broka Island and Havstein Island and Law Promontory. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the L ...

, Antarctica * Lang Park, a stadium in Brisbane, Australia *

Lang, New South Wales Lang, New South Wales, is a remote civil parish of Poole County in far northwest New South Wales. ...

, a locality in Australia *

Division of Lang The Division of Lang was an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. It was located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, and was name ...

, a former Australian electoral division. *

Electoral district of Sydney-Lang Sydney-Lang was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1894 from part of the electoral district of West Sydney in inner Sydney and named after Presbyterian clergyman, writer, poli ...

, a former New South Wales electoral division. * Lang, Austria, a town in Leibniz, Styria, Austria * Lang, Saskatchewan, a Canadian village *

Lang Island Lang Island (Dutch: "Long"; modern Indonesian: Krakatau Kecil or Panjang) lies in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, in Indonesia. It is one of the Krakatoa Archipelago, above the famous Krakatoa volcano. Lang suffered only slightly in t ...

, Sunda Strait, Indonesia * Lang, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran * Lang Varkshi, Khuzestan Province, Iran *

Lang Glacier The Lang Glacier (german: Langgletscher) is a long glacier (2005) situated in the Bernese Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of . See also *List of glaciers in Switzerland * List of glaciers *Retreat of glaciers ...

, Bernese Alps, Valais, Switzerland * Lang Suan District, southern Thailand * Lang County, or Nang County, Tibet *

Lang, Georgia Lang is an extinct town in Carroll County, Georgia, Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History A post office called Lang was established in 1887, and remained in operation until 1896. Benjamin F. Lang, an early post ...

, United States *

Lang Chánh District Lang may refer to: *Lang (surname), a surname of independent Germanic or Chinese origin Places * Lang Island (Antarctica), East Antarctica * Lang Nunatak, Antarctica * Lang Sound, Antarctica * Lang Park, a stadium in Brisbane, Australia * La ...

, Vietnam * Lang Trang, a cave formation located in Vietnam

Computing

* S-Lang, a programming language created in 1992 *LANG, environment variable in

POSIX The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. POSIX defines both the system- and user-level application programming inter ...

standard that sets multiple locale parameters *The LANG attribute in HTML, for identifying the language of content

Other uses

* " Langue", Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic term for "competency" or "I-language" (both Chomsky), referring to a cognitive "language" as distinct from surface forms—natural spoken language * Lang, variety of the

jujube Jujube (), sometimes jujuba, known by the scientific name ''Ziziphus jujuba'' and also called red date, Chinese date, and Chinese jujube, is a species in the genus '' Ziziphus'' in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. Description It is a smal ...

tree, whose fruits have a thicker skin compared to the fruits of other varieties *

Lang Film Lang Film is a film and TV production company based in Freienstein, Switzerland. The company produces documentary films, feature films and TV films. Lang Film is one of the most well-known Swiss film production companies. The company also include ...

, a film and TV production company in Freienstein, Switzerland *

Lang Law Lang Law is the informal name given to French law number 81-766, from 10 August 1981, which establishes a fixed price for books sold in France and limits price discounts on them. The law is named after Jack Lang, the French Minister of Culture res ...

, the informal name given to French law relating to book prices *

Lang Propellers Lang Propellers was a British company that manufactured aircraft propellers. The company operated independently from 1913 to 1936. History In 1909 Arthur Alexander Dashwood Lang became interested in aircraft propeller design and made some pro ...

, British company specializing in aircraft propellers *

Lang School The Lang School is a private, nonprofit, K-12 school for gifted and twice exceptional (2e) students located in New York City's Financial District. It was the first K-12 school to specialize in educating twice-exceptional (2e) students, though it ...

, U.S. private school for gifted students, New York City *

Lang Syne Plantation Lang Syne Plantation is a historic plantation near St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina. The plantation was established in the 18th century by Ann Heatly Reid Lovell and her nephew Langdon Cheves, a prominent South Carolina politician an ...

, U.S. plantation near St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina *

Lang Van Lang Van (Vietnamese: Làng Văn) is a Vietnamese production company based in Westminster, CA and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. History Làng Văn (translated as ‘Village of Poetry’ in English) was founded in 1982. It was one of the first Vietn ...

, a Vietnamese production company in Westminster, CA and Ho Chi Minh City *

Battle of Lang Vei The Battle of Lang Vei (Vietnamese: ''Trận Làng Vây'') began on the evening of 6 February 1968 and concluded during the early hours of 7 February, in Quảng Trị Province, South Vietnam. Towards the end of 1967, the 198th Tank Battalion ...

, Vietnam War