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 The longitude of the ascending node, also known as the right ascension of the ascending node, is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. Denoted with the symbol Ω, it is the angle from a specified reference d ...

, 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 The Lan blood group system (short for Langereis) is a human blood group defined by the presence or absence of the Lan antigen on a person's red blood cells. More than 99.9% of people are positive for the Lan antigen. Individuals with the rare Lan ...

, 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 LAN Dominicana (legally ''Líneas Aéreas Nacionales de Navegación Dominicana S.A.'') was a short-lived airline based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that operated international services."Directory:World airlines." ''Flight International''. ...

, 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) Lan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. As of 2008, it is the 154th most common surname in China, shared by 840,000 people. Lan 蘭 is not listed ...

, 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) The Lan () tribe was one of the five member tribes of the Xiongnu people who lived during the Han dynasty in Northern Wei. History The Xiongnu people had five tribes: Luandi, Xubu, Huyan, Lan, and Qiulin. According to the Chinese assimilation p ...

, ethnic group in Han dynasty China *

David Lan David Lan is a South African-born British playwright, theatre producer and director and a social anthropologist. Career Born in Cape Town, he trained as an actor and gained a BA at the University of Cape Town. He has lived in London since 19 ...

(born 1952), South African-born British playwright *

Donald Lan Donald Paul Lan Sr. (December 19, 1930 – April 29, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as Secretary of State of New Jersey from 1977 to 1982. He was appointed to the post by Governor Brendan Byrne. Lan has been the U ...

(1930–2019), American politician *

Phạm Chi Lan Phạm Chi Lan is a Vietnamese economist. She specialises in economic policy reforms and Vietnam's international integration process. Biography Lan graduated from the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, ...

, Vietnamese economist

Fictional characters

* Lan, Aeon of The Hunt in Honkai: Star Rail *

Lan Mandragoran ''The Wheel of Time'' is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, which began with ''The Eye of the World'' in 1990. Jordan wrote the first 11 novels of the series, and the prequel novel ''New Spring'' (2004), before his ...

, 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 ...

, administrative division used in Sweden and until 2009 in Finland *

, a tribe of Eastern Huns * ''Lan'', a

Cantonese profanity Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While the t ...

* LAN or Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, an American civil engineering company *