Batan or Batán may refer to:

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Batan, Aklan Batan, officially the Municipality of Batan ( Aklanon: ''Banwa it Batan''; Hiligaynon: ''Banwa sang Batan''; ), is a third-class municipality in the province of Aklan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 33,484 peo ...

, a municipality in the Philippines *

Batan Island Batan Island ( ) is the main island of Batanes, an archipelagic province in the Philippines. It is the second largest of the Batanes Islands, the northernmost group of islands in the Philippines. Geography Batan is a dumbbell-shaped volcanic is ...

, the main island of the province of Batanes, the Philippines * Batan Island, Albay, in Rapu-rapu, Albay, the Philippines * Batan, Binhai County (八滩镇), town in Binhai County, Jiangsu, China * Batán, Costa Rica, a town in Costa Rica * Batán River, a river of northern Colombia * Batán Zoo, a zoo in Batán,

Buenos Aires Province Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province an ...

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

* Batán, Argentina, a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina *

Batán (Madrid Metro) Batán is a station on Line 10 of the Madrid Metro The Madrid Metro (Spanish: ''Metro de Madrid'') is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the world, ...

, a station on the Madrid Metro

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Batan (stone) The batán is a kitchen utensil used to process different kinds of foods in South American, Andean and Indian cuisine. It has a flat stone (the ''batán'' proper) and a grinding stone called an ''uña''. The uña is held in both hands and rocked ...

, a.k.a. batán – a kitchen utensil used for grinding in Andean cuisine * Batani tribal confederacy in Afghanistan, who believe they all have descended from a son of

Qais Abdur Rashid Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed () is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns. It is believed that the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring harmony between religious and ethnic identit ...

, the mythical ancestor of all

Pashtuns Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghan (ethnon ...

* Badan Tenaga Nuklir Nasional (BATAN), the National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia

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