Kan

Kan or KAN may refer to:

Places

• Kan (river), a tributary of the Yenisey in Russia
• Kan District of Iran
• Kan, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Batken Region
• Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, Nigeria, IATA code
• Kannapolis (Amtrak station), North Carolina, US, station code
• Kansas, a U.S. state

People

• Kan (surname), including a list of people with the surname
• One of the Bacabs of Mayan mythology
• Kan (musician), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Kan Shimozawa (1892–1968), Japanese novelist
• Kan Otake (born 1983), Japanese professional baseball player

Music

• "Kan" (song), Israeli Eurovision song in 1991
• KAN, UK folk supergroup with Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke

In science and technology

• kan, PDP ligand, kanamycin A
• Iwasawa decomposition of a Lie group in mathematics

Weights and measures

• A Japanese unit of mass (貫)
• Kan, a Korean unit of length

Other uses

• Dated transliteration of Gan in Chinese contexts
• Kan language (disambiguation), several languages
• Kananook railway station, Melbourne
• Club of Committed Non-Party Members (KAN), Czech Republic
• Variation of the Sicilian Defence in chess
• Kan (Hebrew: כאן, lit. 'Here'), the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation
• A string of Japanese mon coins

See also

• Kann (disambiguation)
• Kaan (disambiguation)
• Kahn (German surname)
• Kane (disambiguation)
• Khan (disambiguation)
• Can (disambiguation)
• Kang (disambiguation)