Lan
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Lan or LAN may also refer to:
Science and technology
[edit]- Local asymptotic normality, a fundamental property of regular models in statistics
- Longitude of the ascending node, one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space
- Łan, unit of measurement in Poland
- Local area network, a computer network that interconnects within a limited area such as one or more buildings
- Lan blood group system, a human blood group
- Lanthanum nitride, a chemical compound whose formula is LaN
Places
[edit]- Lancashire (Chapman code), England
- Lancaster railway station (National Rail station code), England
- Capital Region International Airport (IATA airport code), Lansing, Michigan, US
- Lan County, Shanxi, China
- Łan, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
- Lan (river), Belarus
- Llan (placename), a placename element known in Breton as lan
Airlines
[edit]- LAN Airlines, 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, a defunct Dominican airline
- LAN Colombia, an airline based in Bogotá, Colombia
Arts
[edit]- Lan (film), a 2009 Chinese film
- Lan Mandragoran, a fictional character from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series
- Lan Hikari, protagonist of the Mega Man: Battle Network series of video games and animated television shows
People
[edit]- Lan (surname 蓝), a Chinese surname
- Lan (surname 兰), a Chinese surname
- Lan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
- Lan (tribe), ethnic group in Han dynasty China
- David Lan (born 1952), South African-born British playwright
- Donald Lan (1930–2019), American politician
- Phạm Chi Lan, Vietnamese economist
Characters
[edit]- Lan, Aeon of The Hunt in Honkai: Star Rail
Other uses
[edit]- Län, administrative division used in Sweden and until 2009 in Finland
- Lan (tribe), a tribe of Eastern Huns
- Lan, a Cantonese profanity
- Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, an American civil engineering company
- List of storms named Lan
See also
[edit]- Lymphadenopathy
- LAN party, a social happening on a local area network e.g multiplayer games.
- Lans (disambiguation)
- Ian
- Llan (disambiguation)