Gan

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The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:

• Gan Chinese, a variety of spoken Chinese
• GaN, an abbreviation for Gallium nitride
• GAN (cycling team), the former name of the Crédit Agricole cycling team
• GAN, a gene associated with Giant axonal neuropathy#Genetics#Giant axonal neuropathy
• Grant Anticipation Note, a type of highway financing

Computing and telecommunications

• Generic Access Network, formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)
• Generative Adversarial Networks, photorealistic images-generating neural networks, a field of Artificial Intelligence

Chemistry

• Gallium Nitride a popular III-V semiconductor

Mythology

• Gan Ceann, a headless rider in Irish mythology.

Fiction

• Gan Isurugi, character in Rival Schools video game series
• Gan (Stephen King), character in works of fiction
• Olag Gan, a fictional character in the British television series Blake's 7

Organisation

• Global Arab Network, a London-based news service about the Arab world

Geography

• A local nickname for Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
• Gan, Norway, a village in Fet municipality, Norway
• Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France
• Gáň, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia

China

• Gan River (Jiangxi)
• Gan River (Inner Mongolia)
• Gan County, in Jiangxi province
• Gan (state), a former independent state
• Gansu, abbreviated Gān (甘), province of China
• Jiangxi, abbreviated Gàn (赣), province of China

Maldives

• Gan (Huvadhu Atoll)
  • Gan International Airport, IATA code
• Gan (Laamu Atoll)
• Gan (Addu Atoll)

Linguistics

• Gan Chinese, a language concentrated in Jiangxi province
  • gan, the ISO 639-3 language code for Gan Chinese

People

• Brendan Gan (born 1988), a Malaysian football player.
• Chester Gan (1908-1959), American actor
• Pinchas Cohen Gan (born 1942), an Israeli artist
• Rafał Gan-Ganowicz (1932-2002), a Polish mercenary, journalist, and activist
• Gan Ning, a warrior of the Three Kingdoms period in China
• Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884-1965), Swedish painter, signature "GAN"