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 at Nenjiang, through the Morin Dawa Daur and the Oroqin Autonomous Banner of ...

, * Gan County, 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 Tibe ...

, 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 "Gra ...

* Gan (Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll) *

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 ...

* Gan (Laamu Atoll)

Elsewhere

* Gáň, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia * Gan Island, an island in the Addu Atoll in the Indian Ocean that used to be an RAF airbase * Gan, Norway, 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 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 ...

, a popular III-V semiconductor * Generative adversarial network, 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), 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-r ...

(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 ...

(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 *

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 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-speaking people in China are from Jiangxi province in China. Gan-speaking populations ...

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 Sini ...

, a variety of spoken Chinese * Gan International Airport, IATA code *

Global Apprenticeships Network The Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) is a Swiss independent and neutral not-for-profit association based in Geneva. The GAN is a network of companies, employer organisations, associations and international organisations with the mission of pr ...

, 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 List of urban areas ...

, 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 te ...

, commonly abbreviated as GAN