Lan or LAN may refer to:

Science and technology

Local asymptotic normality In statistics, local asymptotic normality is a property of a sequence of statistical models, which allows this sequence to be asymptotic distribution, asymptotically approximated by a normal distribution, normal location model, after an appropriate ...

, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics * Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space *

Łan Lan (Polish language, Polish: ''łan'' ; German language, German: ''Lahn''; Latin: ''laneus'') is an old unit of field (agriculture), field measurement used in Poland. Since the 13th century, its value has varied from one location to another. A ...

, unit of measurement in Poland *

Local area network A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, campus, or building, and has its network equipment and interconnects locally managed. LANs facilitate the distribution of da ...

, a computer network that interconnects within a limited area such as one or more buildings * Lan blood group system, a human blood group * Lanthanum nitride, a chemical compound whose formula is LaN

Places

Lan County Lan County or Lanxian is a county under the administration of Lüliang City, in west-central Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and larg ...

, Shanxi, China *

Łan, Lublin Voivodeship Łan is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wola Uhruska, within Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European cou ...

, Poland * Lan (agrotown), agrotown in Nyasvizh district, Minsk region, Belarus * Lan (river), Belarus *

Llan (placename) Llan () and its variants (; ; ; Irish and ) are a common element of Celtic placenames in the British Isles and Brittany, especially of Welsh toponymy. In Welsh the (often mutated) name of a local saint or a geomorphological description follo ...

, a placename element known in Breton as ''lan'' * LAN ** Chapman code of

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

, England ** National Rail station code of

Lancaster railway station Lancaster (formerly known as Lancaster Castle) is a railway station that serves the city of Lancaster, in Lancashire, England. It is one of the principal stations on the West Coast Main Line, located north of . History Originally known as ...

, England **IATA airport code of

Capital Region International Airport Capital Region International Airport , formerly Lansing Capital City Airport, is a public, Class C airport located northwest of downtown Lansing in a portion of DeWitt Township, Michigan that has been annexed to the City of Lansing via P ...

, Lansing, Michigan, US

Airlines

LAN Airlines LATAM Airlines Chile, formerly known as LAN Chile and LAN Airlines, is a Chilean multinational airline based in Santiago and one of the founding companies of the LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline holding company in Latin America. Its m ...

, former name of LATAM Chile, an airline in Chile, with a stake in other airlines: ** LAN Peru, an airline based in Peru ** LAN Ecuador, an airline based in Quito, Ecuador ** LAN Argentina, a defunct Argentine airline ** LAN Dominicana, a defunct Dominican airline ** LAN Colombia, an airline based in Bogotá, Colombia

People

Lan (surname 蓝) Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized Lam or Nam in Hakka. Lan is listed 131st in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Fami ...

, a Chinese surname * Lan (surname 兰), a Chinese surname *

Lan (given name) Lan is a personal name, frequently used in Chinese language, Chinese and Vietnamese language, Vietnamese contexts as a feminine given name, which means "orchid" in Vietnamese. In Vietnamese, "Lân" with the accent denotes a masculine given name, wh ...

, a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Lan (tribe), ethnic group in Han dynasty China * David Lan (born 1952), South African-born British playwright * Donald Lan (1930–2019), American politician * Phạm Chi Lan, Vietnamese economist

Fictional characters

* Lan, Aeon of The Hunt in Honkai: Star Rail * Lan Mandragoran, a fictional character from Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' series *

Lan Hikari Since the release of '' Mega Man'', numerous characters have appeared across the series. Overview Key: = Does Not Appear List indicator(s) * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the property or that the character's p ...

, protagonist of the ''Mega Man: Battle Network'' series of video games and animated television shows

Other uses

* ''Lan'' (film), a 2009 Chinese film *

Län ( Swedish, ), ( Danish, ), ( Finnish, ) and ( Norwegian, ) refer to the administrative divisions used in Sweden and previously in Denmark, Finland and Norway. The provinces of Finland were abolished on 1 January 2010. In Norway, the term was ...