Gan

The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:

Places

 * Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden"

China

 * Gan River (Jiangxi)
 * Gan River (Inner Mongolia),
 * Gan County, in Jiangxi province
 * Gansu, abbreviated Gān (甘), province of China
 * Jiangxi, abbreviated Gàn (赣), province of China

Maldives

 * Gan (Addu Atoll)
 * Gan (Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll)
 * Gan (Huvadhu Atoll)
 * Gan (Laamu Atoll)
 * Gan International Airport

Elsewhere

 * Gáň, a village and municipality in Galanta District, Trnava Region, south-west Slovakia
 * Gan Island, an island in the Addu Atoll in the Indian Ocean that used to be an RAF airbase
 * Gan, Norway, a village in Lillestrøm municipality, Norway
 * Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, France

Science and technology

 * GAN (gene)
 * Gan (Martian crater)
 * Gallium nitride, a popular III-V semiconductor, chemical formula GaN
 * Generative adversarial network, a class of machine learning systems
 * Generic Access Network, formerly known as Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA)

People

 * Gan (surname), a surname in various cultures (including a list of people with the surname)
 * Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970), president of Egypt
 * Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (1884–1965), Swedish painter, signature "GAN"

Fictional characters

 * Gan (Stephen King), in King's Dark Tower novel series
 * Gan Isurugi, in the Rival Schools video game series
 * Olag Gan, in the Blake's 7 television series and franchise

Other

 * GAN (cycling team), the former name of the Crédit Agricole cycling team
 * Gan Chinese-speaking people
 * Gan Chinese, a variety of spoken Chinese
 * Gan International Airport, IATA code
 * Global Apprenticeships Network, a not-for-profit association based in Geneva
 * Global Arab Network, a London-based news service about the Arab world
 * Grant Anticipation Note, a type of highway financing
 * Great American Novel, commonly abbreviated as GAN
 * GANCUBE (or GAN), Chinese speedcube manufacturer