Gan

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Gan may refer to:

Contents 1 Computing and telecommunications 2 Fictions 3 Geography 3.1 China 3.2 Maldives 3.3 Elsewhere 4 Linguistics 5 People 6 Others

[edit] Computing and telecommunications

• .gan, the file extension for documents created by GanttProject
• Generic Access Network formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
• Global Area Network (networking)

[edit] Fictions

• gan, an Elvish board game played in The Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
• Gan Isurugi, a fictional character from the Rival Schools video game series
• Gan (Stephen King), the creative overforce in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
• Olag Gan, a fictional character in the British television series Blake's 7

[edit] Geography

[edit] China

• Gan River
• Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China, through which the river flows
• Gan Chinese varieties, which are concentrated in and form the typical speech of Jiangxi
• gan is the ISO 639-3 language code for Gan
• Gan (deity) a deity worshipped in the vicinity of Thistle Mountain, in Guangxi Province, China.

[edit] Maldives

• Gan (Huvadhu Atoll)
• Gan (Laamu Atoll)
• Gan (Seenu Atoll)
• Gan International Airport, Maldive by IATA code

[edit] Elsewhere

• Gananoque, Ontario, Canada, by local nickname
• Gan, Norway, a village in Fet in Norway
• Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France
• Afghanistan, by a nickname commonly used by the military.

[edit] Linguistics

• A Romanization of the Chinese character 甘 (Gān), an abbreviation for Gansu Province in the People's Republic of China
• A Romanization of the Chinese character 赣 (Gàn), an abbreviation for:
• Gan Chinese, one of the Chinese languages

[edit] People

• Pinchas Cohen Gan (born 1942), an Israeli artist
• Brendan Gan - Sydney FC football player
• Gan Ning - Three Kingdoms period warrior, servant of Wu.

[edit] Others

• GaN, Gallium(III) nitride, a direct-bandgap semiconductor material of wurtzite crystal structure
• GAN (cycling team), a French cycling team
• Giant axonal neuropathy and is also the name of the gene that when mutated causes the disorder.

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